Chapter 4

Questions and Answers

Question 1

According to Lam, whats

the purpose of engineering
drawing?

According to Lam the purpose of

engineering drawing is to communicate your
ideas more easily. A well-drawn plan will
convey the project much easier than words
can.

Question 2

What do oblique and

isometric drawings have in
common?

Oblique and Isometric drawings both are

two-dimensional drawings that can
represent three-dimensional shapes. Both
also have standards for the angles at which
the horizontal and vertical lines are drawn.

Question 3

Why was Brunelleschis

contribution to drawing
important?

Brunelleschi's contribution was the

perspective drawing, which was important
because this way of drawing makes the
object look realistic by giving it perspective
through the vanishing point in the drawing.

Question 4
On a piece of isometric graph paper, draw
an isometric drawing of one of your books
using a scale factor of 1:4. Be sure to list
the books measurements, and show all of
the calculations you did to determine the
measurements of the drawing.

Question 5

Using quad-ruled graph paper,

create an orthographic drawing of
the same book using the same
scale factor?

Question 6

Use the conversion chart in the

back of your book to determine how
many centimeters long a football
field is.

120 yards:
(3feet/1 yard)(0.3048meters/1foot)(100cm/1meter)

=1.2*10^4

Question 7

How does the design process at

HNTB differ from the one that
Shawn and Jamy used?

The design process differs at HNTB

because the clients come to HNTB with
the problem and with the details of it and
then the company has to make a bidding
on the project.

Question 8
Lam discusses how drawing helps his firm
communicate design ideas to clients and
construction teams. We all use drawing to
communicate at some time or another.
Describe a time when you used a drawing
to communicate a message, an idea, or
even an emotion.

When designing my cell phone holder I

used drawings to help convey the final
product so that others and I could
evaluate a look for any potential
problems in the design.