4.1: Types of views used in drawings
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Types of views used in drawings
The two main types of views (or “projections”) used in drawings are:
- pictorial
- orthographic
Pictorial views
Pictorial views show a 3-D view of how something should look when completed. There are three types of pictorial views:
- perspective
- isometric
- oblique
Perspective view
A perspective view presents a building or an object just as it would look to you. A perspective view has a vanishing point; that is, lines that move away from you come together in the distance. For example, in Figure 1, we see a road and line of telephone poles. Even though the poles get smaller in their actual measurement, we recognize them as being the same size but more distant.
- Perspective view
- An isometric view
- Oblique view of the object in Figure 2
- Multi-view through a glass box
- Box opened to produce orthographic views
- Drawing with the glass box flattened out
- Orthographic views of the object in Figure 2
- Main floor plan of a house
- Left elevation of house in Figure 8
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- Section A-A
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