Meet Mike: Descriptive Geometry of a Tool

Posted By: Jordan Parsons

Meet Mike, Mike is the reason I have gotten next to no sleep since Monday. Our assignments up to this point have been designed to teach us basic skills, such as spacial recognition, basic model making, and learning how to accurately represent something through drawing. We have been working on isometric projections, and perspective drawings in our drawing class.

In our studio class how ever we were given a tool. We were paired off and given different tools. My partner and I were given a hand joiner, which my partner named Mike.

We have been working since Monday to create drawings of this tool. The first set, were freehand drafts done on vellum. After that we needed full measurements to do a scale draft from seven different views. Today the construction lines, (really light guide lines that set up the whole drawings), were dude. On next Monday the final drafts will be due. I enjoyed the process of creating the lines, it is quite interesting how one view can be projected to for several others. I will have pictures to post later of the process and my final drawings.

I understand where the School of Architecture is coming from giving us intial assignments like this one. It provides us with the opportunity to hone basic skills, so that when we go to design something, to do a real project, we have enough of a grasp on what we can and cannot do that we can concentrate exclusively on design, and not be hindered by a lack of skills. By no means are these assignments going to make us master drafters or modelers, but they will make us sure or ourselves, and with talking to my friends I think it worked.

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