Mechanical drawing for industrial and high schools (1915)
Leeds, Charles Carley, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 70
gs best illustrate this type of work from thefact that they represent the object as it would appear to the eye;at the same time there are certain disadvantages connected withthis system. The main objection is that these drawings cannot belaid out from dimensions as mechanical drawings are, and… … is that in the perspective drawing the surface lines converge at acertain distance from the object, as shown in Fig. 16, while in theisometric drawing these same surface lines are parallel. For certain shapes, or at least for some views, isometric drawingsare not satisfactory, as the figure appears…
Mechanical drawing
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