Outlines of Industrial Drawing Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...visible lines of the second base. Cymas, Scotia, Regular Hexagonal Prism. Work in a similar manner: Fig. 190. In the Book; With instruments, draw views of the different mouldings in this section. SECTION 46. FREE HAND SKETCHES OF MOULDINGS. Draw rapidly, free hand. Try to imitate the proportion given to the different mouldings. To avoid monotony, mouldings should differ in size. Of the mouldings treated in this book, the fillet and the bead are the smallest; the cavetto, the ovolo, and the cyma reversa come next; then the cyma recta, the scotia and the plinth. How to proceed: --(1.) Draw the front base. (2.) Draw the oblique lines according to the station at which the object is placed. (3.) Make all the oblique lines of the same length. Draw the visible lines of the rear; these lines should be parallel with the corresponding lines in the front. (4.) When the sketch is lined in, turn it about, to have different views of it. Bases: etc. Fig. 192. Fig. 193. Find other sets of mouldings. Copy from cornices, bases, and other details of houses, etc. In the Book: Free hand, draw a few of the foregoing, or similar mouldings copied outside. In this case, write the number of the house, the name of the street, etc., from which the set of mouldings has been taken. SECTION 47. PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF MOULDINGS. Do not work this Section without having the proper models in your hands. Procure as many mouldings as possible of the following or of similar bases or ends: Review briefly Sections 33, 34, and 35, particularly how to see plans and elevations. Draw the working drawings of any moulding, bases front and rear. A cavetto, for instance: (1.) Draw its front view or front elevation, (a) Fig. 195. (2.) Draw its top view or plan, (a) Fig. 195. (3.) Turn the base in other po..