RESEARCH TITLES:
1. THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF AUTOMATED DRAFTING ARM
2. A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATICALLY RE-SCALED DEVISED
ARM AS A DRAFTING PRODUCTION TOOL
Chapter 1
The Problem and It’s Background
Introduction
Technology influences every aspect of our lives. The
Drafting Technology is important because technical drawing is
vital for the inception, development and communication of ideas
related to technology, industry and scientific development.
Technical drawing is an important form of communication.
Drafting is the primary method of communication between
designers and clients, architects, and builders, engineers and
production personnel and between advertisers and customers. A
drawing, when used to show the material, dimensions, and shapes
of product, is known as a technical drawing (French 1974).
In old times and even nowadays, people especially the
architecture and drafting students were having difficulties in
making a perfect line by using ruler or other measuring tools
which sometimes it is time consuming of every measuring tools
you want to used based on your work-in-progress plans. We all
know that we have a CAD system to make the plans easier to draft
using computer, drafters can create and store drawings
electronically so that they can be viewed, printed, or
programmed directly into automated manufacturing systems (Bureau
of Labor Statistics, 2008)
Drafters still need knowledge of traditional drafting
techniques and some of drafters will much prefer the manual
planning especially the students who are just beginning to make
a plan. And in order to use more of measuring tools, the
researchers present this invention which could help the drafter
to manually draft their plans using the drafting arm with any
measuring tools attached in single device only. It is simple
machine to create and measure lines similar in Drafting Machine.
it can use the different measuring tools in just one arm.
Related Literature
A drafting machine is a tool used in technical drawing,
consisting of a pair of scales mounted to form a right angle on
an articulated protractor head that allows an angular rotation.
(Hearst Magazines , December 1993)
The drafting machine was invented by Charles H. Little in
1901 (U.S. Patent No. 1,081,758), and he founded the Universal
Drafting Machine Company in Cleveland, Ohio, to manufacture and
sell the instrument. (The National Cyclopedia of American
Biography 1950)
Drafting machines were present in the design offices of
European companies since the 1920s. The Encyclopedia Britannica
explicitly specifies 1930 as the year this tool was introduced,
but an advertisement of "Memorie di architettura pratica" from
1913 places it twenty years before this date—at least in Italy.
In the older design sets, the movement of the protractor
head was assured by a pantograph system that could keep the head
in the same angular position throughout its range of motion. The
arms were balanced by a system of counterweights or springs.
Typically, the machine is mounted on a drawing board with a
hard and smooth surface, anchored to a base that allows its
tilting and lifting. Thus, the realization of a drawing can be
achieved in the most convenient way on a working surface that
can be tilted at any angle from horizontal to vertical.
There are special versions for A0 double-sized boards, to
make large drawings, or copying-boards with background
illumination, which have all that is necessary to provide
specific support.
With the drafting machine one can perform a series of
drawing operations that otherwise could only be achieved with a
much more complex use of the classic ruler square and
protractor, as, for example, drawing parallel lines, orthogonal
lines, inclined lines according to a preset angle, measurement
of angles, etc.
REFERENFCES
https://dvgmartinez.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/basic-drafting/
https://www.cdschools.org/Page/458
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_machine#cite_note-2
