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Promotional

To advertise and to promote sales of the window. Also to raise the publics awareness of the company.

Production

To aid in the manufacture of the window. This information would be used by those involved in putting the window together in the factory.

Preliminary

To show initial ideas at the concept stage of how the new window might look. This could be helpful to people such as the client and the planning authorities.

The size of the sheet of paper the drawing is going on to.

The size of the object in real life.

1810 mm

1780 mm

landscape

portrait

24

47size 47 should be above the dimension line

size 24 should be rotated to read left to right

projection lines should not touch the object

matching set of arrows should be usedhatching lines should lie at 45o

15 20 1515

35

50

Keep it simple – don’t try to be too smart

Avoid mixing layout styles / avoid mixing typefaces / avoid ‘junk’ type

Avoid changes which are too subtle and can look like mistakes

Limit the number of visual elements on a page / limit the number of typefaces in a publication / create visual contrast / make full use of white space

Reverse – white on black

Rule

Subheading / subtitle

Graphic/ illustration / picture / image / artwork

Caption

Footer / folio / footer folio

GutterMargin

Graduated / gradient / linear / logarithmic

Pattern / hatch / hatching / texture

Solid / pattern-solid / hatch-solid / plain / colour

Edit tools to transfer a graphic from one location within a publication to another. The original is lost in this process.

Edit tools to create multiple copies of text/graphics from one location to other specified locations. The original is kept in this process.

When CAD drawings are layered they behave as if they were multiple sheets of tracing paper stacked on top of each other. Each layer can be assigned a unique job like ‘dimensions’ or ‘centre lines’ and the layers could be switched on and off as required.

An architect could make complex drawings simplified by breaking the drawing down into sections such as ‘electrical’, ‘plumbing’, ‘water’ etc. and putting each on a separate layer. The user could then look at the drawing layers collectively or individually.