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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE1012 Engineering Drawing Lab

Batch: 2023 Semester: II
Session: Spring-2024

Experiment # 01: Introduction familiarization to ED instruments and their uses.

Student Name and Registration No: __________________________

Lab Report Rubric Based Assessment
Levels of Achievement

Unacceptabl Basic Good Excelle Marks

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/Just (4)
(1) acceptable (5)
(2/3)

Proper Line types and

Dimensions

Levels of Achievement

Unacceptabl Basic Good Excelle Marks

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/Just (4)
(1) acceptable (5)
(2/3)

Graphically Accurate

Proper Size and Scale

Psychomotor Rubric Based Assessment

Affective Rubric Based Assessment
Levels of Achievement

Unaccept Just Basic Good Excell Marks

able acceptable ent
(3) (4)
(1) (2) (5)

Active Participation
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xperiment # 01:
Introduction familiarization to ED instruments and their uses.

Objective:

● To study the objectives of drawing.

● To identify the drawing instruments and study
their uses.
● To make some drawings using the drawing
equipment.

DRAWING OBJECTIVES:
The following are the drawing objectives that students should try to attain:
1. Accuracy: No drawing is useful if it is not accurate. Therefore, an engineer or
designer must acquire the habit of accuracy to achieve success in professional
employment.

2. Speed: Time is money and so there’s no demand for a slow drafter, engineer or
technician in industry; so, what one needs to focus on is speed. However, it cannot
be attained by hurrying; rather it comes with study and practice.
3. Legibility: Drafters, technicians and engineers must remember that a drawing is a
means of communication to others, and that it must be clear and legible to serve its
purpose well. Care should be given to details, especially to lettering.

4. Neatness: if a drawing is to be accurate and legible, it must also be clean. Untidy

drawings are the result of sloppy and careless methods and will be unacceptable to
an instructor or employer.
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Theory
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USES:

Drawing Instruments are used to prepare neat and accurate Drawings. To a greater
extent, the accuracy of the Drawings depends on the quality of instruments used to
prepare them. The following is the list of Drawing Instruments and other materials
required.
a) Drawing Board

b) T-square or Drafter (Drafting machine)

c) Set Squares
d) Protractor
e) Drawing Instrument Box
f) Drawing Sheet
g) Drawing Pencils
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h) Drawing Pins/Clips/Tape
i) French curves
Drawing Boards:
It is rectangular in shape and is made of strips of well-seasoned soft wood about 25mm thick.
It is cleated at the back by two battens to prevent warping. One of the edges of the board is
used as a working edge, on which the T-square is made to slide. It should, therefore be
perfectly straight. For a right-hander the left-hand side of the board is the working edge
whereas the opposite is true for the left-handers.
If the left edge of the drawing table top has a straight edge and if the surface is hard and
smooth, a drawing board then becomes unnecessary and the same drawing table can be used
as a board provided the drawings are fastened on it with a drafting tape and it is also
recommended to have a back-up sheet placed between the drawing and the table top.

T-Squares: It is a technical drawing instrument used by draftsmen primarily as a guide for

drawing horizontal lines on a drafting table. It is made of a long strip called the blade,
fastened rigidly at right angles to a shorter piece called the head or the stock. The upper edge
of the blade and the inner edge of the head are working edges and must be straight. The
working edge of the head must not be convex or the T-square will rock when the head is
placed against the board.
The blade should have transparent edges and should be free of nicks along the working edge.

Testing and correcting T-squares: to test the working edge of the head, see if the T-square
rocks when the head is placed against a straight edge, such as a drawing board working edge
that has already been tested and found true. If the working edge is not straight, the T-square
should be replaced. To test the working edge of the blade, draw a sharp line very carefully
with a hard pencil along the entire length of the working edge; then turn the t-scale over and
draw the line again along the same edge. If the edge is straight, the two lines will coincide;
otherwise, the space between the lines will be twice the error of the blade.
it is difficult to correct a crooked T-square blade, and if the error is considerable, it may be
necessary to discard the T-square and obtain another.
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Set squares: Set squares are generally made from Plastic or celluloid material. They are
triangular in shape with one corner, a right angle triangle. They are used for drawing all
straight lines except the horizontal lines which are usually drawn with the T-square. Vertical
lines can be drawn with T-square and the set square. In combination with the T-square, lines
at 30° or 60° angle with vertical or horizontal lines can be drawn with 30°-60° set square and
at 45° with 45° set square. The two set squares used simultaneously along with the T-square
will produce lines making angles of 15°, 75°, 105° etc.
Parallel straight lines in any position, not very far apart, as well as lines perpendicular to any
line from any given point within or outside it, can be drawn with the two squares.

Protractor: it is flat and circular or semi-circular in shape. The commonest type is of

protractor is semi-circular and of about 100mm diameter. Its circumferential edge,
graduated to 1° divisions, is numbered at every 10° interval and is readable from both the
ends. The diameter of the semi-circle is called the base of the protractor and its center point
is marked by a perpendicular line.
The protractor is used to draw or measure such angles as cannot be drawn using a set square.
Also, a circle can be divided into any number of parts by means of a protractor.
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Drawing Instrument Box:It consists of the following:

a) Large size compasses,
b) Large size divider,
c) Small size bow pen, bow divider, and
d) Lengthening bar

Drawing sheet:
They are available in many varieties and good quality paper with smooth surface should
be selected for Drawings which are to be preserved for longer time. Recommended sizes
of Drawing Sheets are given below:
Standard sizes of drawing sheet
Designation Size (mm) Designation Size
(mm)
A 1189 × 841 A 420 ×
0 841 × 594 3 297
594 × 420 297 ×
A A 210
1 4 210 ×
148
A A
2 5

Drawing Pencils: The accuracy and appearance of a Drawing depends on the quality of
Pencil used to make it. The grade of a Pencil lead is marked on the Pencil. HB denotes
medium grade. Increase in hardness is shown by value put in front of H such as 2H, 3H etc.,
Softer pencils are marked as 2B, 3B, and 4B etc. A Pencil marked 3B is softer than 2B and
Pencil marked 4B is softer than 3B and so on. Beginning of a Drawing may be made with H
or 2H. For lettering and dimensioning, H and HB Pencils are used. The final fair work
however, may be done with harder pencils like 3H and upwards. For freehand sketching,
where considerable erasing is required to be done, soft-grade pencils such as HB should be
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used.

Drawing Pins/clips/ tape: These are used to fix the drawing sheet on the Drawing board.
Compass: It is used for drawing circles and arcs of circles. The compass has two legs hinged at one end.
One of the legs has a pointed needle fitted at the lower end whereas the other end has provision for
inserting pencil lead. Circles up to 120mm diameters are drawn by keeping the legs of compass straight.
For drawing circles more than 150 mm radius, a lengthening bar is used. It is advisable to keep the
needle end about 1mm long compared to that of pencil end so that while drawing circles, when the
needle end is pressed it goes inside the drawing sheet by a small distance (approximately 1mm).

French Curves: Drawing mechanical curves other than circles or circular arcs generally requires the use
of an irregular or French curve. An irregular or French curve is a device for the mechanical drawing of
curved lines and should not be applied directly to the points or used for purpose of producing an initial
curve. These are made in various shapes, some of which have been shown in the figure below. Some set
squares also have these curves set in their middle.

Exercise 1:
Draw a straight horizontal line using T-square.
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● To draw a straight horizontal line using a T-square, hold firmly its stock with the left hand
against the working edge of the board, and draw the line from left to right.
Note: The pencil should be held slightly inclined in the direction of the line (i.e. to the right) while the
pencil point should be as close as possible to the working edge of the blade. Horizontal parallel lines are
drawn by sliding the stock to the desired position.

Exercise 2:
Draw a line perpendicular to the horizontal line drawn in Exercise 1 from a given point within it.

● Place the T-square a little below the given line.

● Arrange any on Set Square with one of the edges containing the right angle touching the
working edge of the T-square, and the other edge passing through the given point.

● Hold firmly the T-square and the set-square with the left hand in this position.
● With the right hand, draw the required line through the given point in the upward direction
which is the required vertical line.
Note: The pencil point should always be in contact with the edge of the set-square. Vertical parallel lines
may be drawn by sliding the set0square along the edge of the T-square to the required positio
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Lettering:

Exercise:
1) Write alphabets from A-Z for Drawing Title
2) Write alphabets from a-z for notes
3) Write numerals from 1-10 for dimensions