Amiria Gale High school Design and Technology students often need to produce complex technical drawings using a compass, setsquares, T-square, and drawing board, demonstrating a range of technical drawing skills. This includes the ability to bisect angles, proportionally subdivide lines, enlarge items, find centre lines, construct tangents and tangential arcs, and use a compass to construct geometric … Read more
High school Design and Technology students are often required to construct developments (nets) of simple geometric objects, such as cubes, prisms, cylinders, and cones. This article introduces how to draw a development using a drawing board, set squares, T-square, and compass. What is a development (net)? A development or net is what an item would … Read more
Design and Technology students often have to render their drawings using graphite pencil, coloured pencil, marker pens, and other graphic mediums. This article provides an introduction to rendering to help students create drawings that accurately represent material, surface texture, and 3D form. What is rendering? Rendering means to apply tone or “shading” (light and shadow) … Read more
High school Design and Technology students are often required to understand, interpret, and draw in isometric, including isometric circles, arcs, and other curves. This article provides an introduction to isometric to help students excel. Isometric is: How to draw an isometric circle How to draw an isometric circle by plotting points Note: this method is … Read more
Planometric is a drawing method where the plan (view from above) is inclined at 45° × 45° (or sometimes 60° × 30°). [understand and draw planometric views at 45° × 45° and 60° × 30°, including circles and arcs (scaling is not required) – IG] [planometric drawings (45/45).] [Coming soon]
Please see a comprehensive guide to one point perspective on our sister site, the Student Art Guide. One point perspective can also be used as a method to enlarge or reduce a shape. [understand and draw estimated perspective, using one-point and two-point starts and perspective grids – IG] [coming soon]
Sectional drawings show what an object looks like as if it had been cut open or sliced through. Hatching guidelines for cut surfaces Half Sections Part Sections Revolved Sections Removed Sections Offset sections
Many high school Design and Technology students are required to draw exploded drawings, which show components ‘pulled apart,’ so you can see how the items fit together. An exploded drawing may be a formal isometric drawing or orthographic drawing completed using the drawing board or a freehand sketch. Guidelines for exploded drawings: Note: You must … Read more