Evolution of Drawing
as an engineering discipline

presented to
Dr. MA Rashid Sarkar
Aashique Alam Rezwan

presented by
Anindya Sundar Paul, 07
Md. Sadun Haq, 41
Drawing

ENGINEERING DRAWING

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Drawing

a language
a method for communication

DRAWING

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Drawing Engineering Drawing

ENGINEERING DRAWING
is a medium or language for
communication between various people
involved in design and manufacturing process
of machines, buildings, vehicles etc.

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HISTORY

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History

When did it all start?
Where did it come from?
What’s its origin?
Let’s find out!

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CLASSIC ERA

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Classic Era

Chaldean Engineer

GUDEA
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Classic Era Gudea

2130 BC

floor plan
of a fortress
inscribed on stone

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Classic Era

Roman Architect and Engineer

VITRUVIUS
80 BC – 15 BC

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Classic Era Vitruvius

De
Architectura
drawings of
buildings, temples, weapons
antique machineries

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Classic Era Vitruvius De Architectura

Greek
house
plan
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Classic Era Vitruvius De Architectura

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Classic Era Vitruvius De Architectura

Drainage
Wheel
used in mines
discovered at
Rio Tinto, Spain
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Classic Era Vitruvius

also studied on
the geometry of human body
(later depicted by Leonardo da Vinci)

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Classic Era

lot more drawings were made
unluckily none of those could
survive to the present era

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GOTHIC ERA

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Gothic Era

VILLARD DE
HONNECOURT
13th Century
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Gothic Era Villard de Honnecourt

some sketches were found in
Honnecourt’s sketch book
but they didn’t demonstrate any
feature of technical drawing

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Gothic Era Villard de Honnecourt

the sketches demonstrate
a range of ephemera
from the world of
cathedrals
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Gothic Era Villard de Honnecourt

the sketches seem
partial and lack explicit
orthographic views or
dimensions
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Gothic Era Villard de Honnecourt

the drawings were more
gothic iconic than
modern mechanical

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Gothic Era

GUIDO DA
VIGEVANO
1280 - 1349
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Gothic Era Guido da Vigevano

book of
siege engine designs

1335

reveals importance of these drawings
as a tool for attracting patronage

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Gothic Era Guido da Vigevano

Crank Wagon
first of its kind
considered to be the first car
uses force generated by a windmill

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Gothic Era

masons who actually constructed
had their own documentary conventions
due to lack of common dimensioning process
the design drawings were highly abstract

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RENAISSANCE ERA

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Renaissance Era

TACCOLA

1382 - 1453
early renaissance

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Renaissance Era Taccola

Piston Pump
use of perspective to
accurately portray
inventions and machines

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Renaissance Era Taccola

Animal Powered
Machine
very clear use of shading
to define perspective

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Renaissance Era Taccola

Vitruvian
Man

Overbalanced
Wheel
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Renaissance Era Taccola

used drawing not as a
means of documentation
rather as a way of iterating
through design possibilities

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Renaissance Era

FRANCESCO DI
GIORGIO MARTINI

Military Engineer
1439 – 1502

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Renaissance Era Giorgio Martini

executed many
architectural designs which
were found in his book

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Renaissance Era

LEONARDO
DA VINCI
1452 - 1519
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Renaissance Era Leonardo da Vinci

first evidence of modern
engineering drawing

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Renaissance Era Leonardo da Vinci

features like
exploded views
assembly drawings
detailed cutaways

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Renaissance Era Leonardo da Vinci

Fly Machine

Some of his works

Vitruvian Man
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Renaissance Era Leonardo da Vinci

the documentation
almost resembles
modern engineering drawing
and documentation process

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Renaissance Era

Albrecht
Dürer
1471 - 1528
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Renaissance Era Albrecht Dürer

features like projected views were absent in
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings whereas they were
present in Albrecht Dürer’s drawings

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Renaissance Era

despite the beauty and the technical
features, drawings of this era lacked some
crucial features like dimensioning

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INDUSTRIAL ERA

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Industrial Era

GASPARD
MONGE
1746 - 1818
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Industrial Era Gaspard Monge

developed a geometrical
approach for determining the
true shape of planes of
intersection between
generated forms
thus set up the base for
orthographic views

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Industrial Era

SIR JOHN
HERSCHEL
1792 - 1871
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Industrial Era Sir John Herschel

discovered blueprint
in 1840
introduced in USA
in 1876

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Industrial Era

Drafting Machine
invented in 1920
drawing parallel lines
angled lines became
really fast

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COMPUTER AIDED
DRAFTING (CAD)

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Computer Aided Drafting

COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING
is a software that allows us to
do engineering drawing in the
computer, saving cost and
instrument space

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Computer Aided Drafting

EUCLID of
ALEXANDRIA
350 BC

todays CAD softwares
are built upon
euclidean geometry
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Computer Aided Drafting

Sketch Pad

early 1960s

developed by
Ivan Sutherland
first true CAD software

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Computer Aided Drafting

CATIA
French aerospace company
Avions Marcel Dassault
began developing CATIA
(Computer Aided Three
Dimensional Interactive
Application)
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Computer Aided Drafting

AutoCAD
IBM first introduced pc
in 1981 and AutoDesk
was founded in 1982
they demonstrated the
first CAD for pc
“AutoCAD Version 1”
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Computer Aided Drafting

3D Sketchpad
Pro/Engineer
in 1987 Parametric
Technology Corp. took the
sketchpad idea and
developed 3d sketchpad
with lightpen
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Computer Aided Drafting

Mechanical
Desktop
released by
AutoDesk in 1996
first full-function 3d
solid modeling
CAD software
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Computer Aided Drafting

AutoCAD
2000i
first web enabled
CAD software
provided the ability to
output drawings that
could be viewed with
a web browser
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Computer Aided Drafting

Rapid
Prototyping
group of techniques
used to quickly
fabricate a scale
model of a physical
part or assembly
using 3d CAD data
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Computer Aided Drafting

3D Printing
CAD designs are used
to directly print 3d
objects using 3d printers
users can design and
print according to their
own demand
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Computer Aided Drafting

this is how it was

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Computer Aided Drafting

this is how it is

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THANK YOU
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Evolution of Drawing as an Engineering Discipline