The Draughtsman’s Handbook Of Plan and Map Drawing

About this eBook

Author

André, George G. (George Guillaume)

Title

The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing Including instructions for the preparation of engineering, architectural, and mechanical drawings.

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive, with additional images from Hathi Trust)

Language

English

LoC Class

TA: Technology: Engineering and Civil engineering

Subject

Architectural drawing

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57290

Release Date

June 8, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S HANDBOOK OF PLAN AND MAP DRAWING.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.PART I.—THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS. — Section I.—The Drawing Office and its Furnishings. — The Drawing Office. — Instruments. — Materials. — Precautions and Remarks. — Section II.—Geometrical Problems. — To bisect a given Straight Line. — To erect a Perpendicular to a given Straight Line. — To divide a Line into any number of equal parts. — To draw a Line making, with another line, a given Angle. — To bisect an Angle. — To construct an Equilateral Triangle on a given base. — To construct a Triangle, the lengths of the Sides being given. — To construct an Angle equal to a given angle. — To construct a Triangle, the length of the base and the angles at the base being given. — To describe a Circle which shall pass through three given points. — To draw a Tangent to a circle. — To find the Centre of a circle. — To draw lines which shall be Radii of a circle, the centre being inaccessible. — To construct an Oval, the width being given. — To construct a Square on a given line. — To construct a square that shall be a Multiple of any given square. — To construct a square that shall be equal to 1 ⁄ 2 , 1 ⁄ 4 , &c., of any given square. — To construct a square that shall be in any Proportion to a given square. — To construct, upon a given base, a Rectangle, which shall be similar to a given rectangle. — To describe a regular Pentagon on a given line. — To describe a regular Hexagon. — To draw a Parabola, the base and height being given. — To draw an Ellipse. — To construct a Semi-Elliptical Arch. — To draw the Gothic Equilateral Arch. — To draw the Gothic Lancet Arch. — To draw the Gothic Obtuse Arch. — To draw the Gothic Tudor Arch. — To draw the Moorish Horse-Shoe Arch. — To draw the Gothic Ogee Arch. — To draw the Roman Cyma Recta and Cyma Reversa. — To draw the Gothic Trefoil. — To draw the Gothic Quatrefoil. — To construct the Gothic Cinquefoil. — Section III.—Lines, Dots, and their Combinations. — Straight and Curved Lines. — Lines of uneven thickness. — The Broken Line. — The Dotted Line. — Combinations of Straight, Broken, and Dotted Lines. — The Wavy Line. — Grass-land. — Swamps and Marshy Ground. — Sand and Gravel. — Woodland. — Uncultivated Land. — Contour Lines. — Section IV.—Colours. — Flat-tints. — Conventional Colours. — Water. — Grass-land. — Marsh. — Sand and Gravel. — Mud. — Woodland. — Cultivated Land. — Uncultivated Land. — Buildings. — Roads and Streets. — Fences. — Section V.—Shading. — Application of Shade Lines. — Cylindrical Surfaces. — Shading Lines. — Shading Lines on Cylindrical Surfaces. — Shading Lines in Topographical Drawings. — The Vertical System of Shading. — Shading in Colours. — Hill Slopes. — Cylindrical Surfaces in Mechanical Drawings.
6. 6.PART II.—APPLICATIONS. — Section I.—Lettering, Bordering, and North Points. — Lettering. — Borders. — North Points. — Section II.—Scales. — Scales of Distances. — Scales of Construction. — Section III.—Plotting. — Reference Lines and Points. — Plotted Points. — To Plot Reference Lines and Points. — To Plot Traverse Reference Lines. — To Plot Detail. — To Plot Contours. — To Plot Sounded Points in Submerged Districts. — Errors and Error-sheets. — To Plot Vertical Sections. — To lay down Gradients. — To Plot a Section from a Contour Map. — Section IV.—Civil Engineers’ and Surveyors’ Plans. — Nature of the Documents required. — Plans. — Book of Reference. — Sections. — Working Sections. — Boundary Maps. — Maps for Division into Wards. — Plans of Proposed Works. — General Plan. — Detailed Plan. — Mining Plans. — Estate and Town Plans. — Section V.—Map Drawing. — Single Stroke Streams. — Double Line Streams and Rivers. — Colouring Streams or Rivers. — Islands and Sand-banks, Sandy and Pebbly Beds of Rivers. — Roads and Pathways. — Mountain Passes. — Fords and Ferries, Toll-gates. — Encamping Grounds , Mile Stones , Wells , Springs and Tanks — Telegraph Lines and Stations — Railways, Stations, and Termini. — Size of Cities, Towns and Villages, and the different ways of representing them. — Sketching, Shading, and Copying Hills. — Field Sketching. — Examination of Maps in the Field. — Section VI.—Mechanical and Architectural Drawings. — Section VII.—Copying and Reducing. — Drawing from Copy. — Copying by Tracing. — Copying by Transfer. — Reducing and Enlarging. — Drawings for Lithographers and Engravers.
7. 7.Trigonometrical Formulæ.
8. 8.Inclined Measure.
9. 9.Curvature and Refraction.
10. 10.INDEX.
11. 11.PLATES. — PLATE 2. — PLATE 3. — PLATE 4. — PLATE 5. — PLATE 6. — PLATE 7. — PLATE 8. — PLATE 9. — PLATE 10. — PLATE 11. — PLATE 12. — PLATE 13. — PLATE 14. — PLATE 15. — PLATE 16. — PLATE 17. — PLATE 18. — PLATE 19. — PLATE 20. — PLATE 21. — PLATE 22. — PLATE 23. — PLATE 24. — PLATE 25. — PLATE 26. — PLATE 27. — PLATE 28. — PLATE 29. — PLATE 30. — PLATE 31. — PLATE 32. — PLATE 33.
12. 12.Transcriber’s Notes

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