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Drawing Instruments and Materials Guide

Drawing instruments and materials include pencils, T-squares, set squares, rules, scales, protractors, templates, compasses, French curves, dividers, technical pens, ruling pens, erasing shields, sandpaper pads, pencil sharpeners, drawing paper, wooden pencils, erasers, water color, drafting tape, drawing tables, and drawing boards. Common drawing tools are used to draw straight lines, curves, circles, measure and transfer angles and distances, and ink drawings. Pencils come in grades from hard to soft for different uses like layout work or sketching. Additional supplies aid the drawing process.

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Drawing Instruments and Materials Guide

Drawing instruments and materials include pencils, T-squares, set squares, rules, scales, protractors, templates, compasses, French curves, dividers, technical pens, ruling pens, erasing shields, sandpaper pads, pencil sharpeners, drawing paper, wooden pencils, erasers, water color, drafting tape, drawing tables, and drawing boards. Common drawing tools are used to draw straight lines, curves, circles, measure and transfer angles and distances, and ink drawings. Pencils come in grades from hard to soft for different uses like layout work or sketching. Additional supplies aid the drawing process.

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DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, MATERIALS & EQUIPMENTS

A. DRAWING INSTRUMENTS 5. SCALE – is used in reducing &


enlarging drawings.
1. MECHANICAL DRAWING
TYPES OF SCALE
PENCIL – uses a separate lead
 Metric or engineer’s
which can be easily & quickly
scale – graduated in
replaced.
decimal system.
2. T-SQUARE – is used for  English or architect’s
drawing horizontal lines as scale – graduated in feet
guide for triangles. & inches
a) KINDS OF T-SQUARE 6. PROTRACTOR – is used for
 Fixed-head type measuring & plotting angles.
 Removable-head type
7. TEMPLATES – is used as time
 Adjustable-head type
saver for easy and accurate
b) PARTS OF A T-SQUARE drawing of circles, ellipses, etc.
 Head
8. COMPASS – is used for
 Blade
constructing arcs & circles.
3. SET SQUARES OR TYPES OF COMPASS:
TRIANGLES – are used with  Pencil compass – has an
the T-square for drawing either opening for the pencil.
vertical or inclined lines (300-,
 Drawing compass – where a
450-, & 600 lines)
piece of lead fits into one of
TYPES OF SET SQUARES its legs.
 450 x 450 triangle
9. FRENCH CURVE – is used to
 300 x 600 triangle
draw irregular curves other than
4. RULE – is used for marking out arcs & circles or curves which
distances as well as for cannot be drawn using
measuring. templates.
10. DIVIDER – is used for
dividing lines or distances into
equal parts or transferring B. DRAWING SUPPLIES &
measurements.
MATERIALS
11. TECHNICAL PEN – is
used for inking pencil drawings. 1. DRAWING PAPER
It has the thinnest point at 0.1 & 2. WOODEN DRAWING PENCIL
the thickest at 1.2 for border GRADES OF WOODEN
lining. DRAWING PENCIL
12. RULING PEN – is used in  Hard range – used for accurate
inking lines & arcs. layout work. (9H, 8H, 7H, 5H,
4H)
13. ERASING SHIELD –  Medium range – used for
permits erasures to be made general drawing & sketching.
so that lines & other information (3H, 2H, F, HB, B)
that must remain in place are  Soft range – used almost
not removed by over-erasing. exclusively for art work. (2B, 3B,
4B, 5B, 6B, 7B)
14. SANDPAPER PAD – is
 H means hard & B means soft.
used in preserving the point of
the pencil after sharpening. It is 3. ERASER
made of cardboard or plywood 4. WATER COLOR
with sandpaper & a foam to 5. DRAFTING TAPE – used for
wipe out/off the dirt. fastening the drawing paper on
15. PENCIL SHARPENER the drawing board/table.

C. DRAWING EQUIPMENTS
1. DRAWING TABLE – provides a
place where the drawing paper
is fastened & tools arranged.
2. DRAWING BOARD – can be a
good substitute for a drawing
table.

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