Talk:Technical drawing

message: Suggest renaming page to maybe, Drafting Equipment
*I propose renaming the page technical drawing.  This is in line with :Category:Technical drawing, is widely understood (and similar to terms in other languages), does not have other meanings which must be disambiguated and is spelled identically in both British and US English. Warofdreams 17:42, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming 

message: Create a disambiguation for "Drafting"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.92.180.110 (talk) 21:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move

message: Graphics is currently nominated to be improved by WP:IDRIVE. Vote for it if you want to contribute.--Fenice 20:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement drive

message: These two articles seem to be discussing the same subject, only one discusses the tools and skills and the other discusses the drawing conventions.
I suggest that Technical drawing would make a better title for the merged page than Engineering drawing, because both articles   apply not only to engineering, but to architecture and industrial design as well. NeonMerlin 17:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Engineering drawing 

message: Someone moved "compass (drafting)" to "compasses (drafting)", asserting that what I've otherwise always heard called a "compass" should be called a "pair of compasses", a novel term as far as I can tell.
: 
What experiences do others have of these two terms? Michael Hardy 23:07, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard of a pair of scissors but never a pair of compasses.  Move it back if it hasn't already been done.  --Eamonnca1 (talk) 05:54, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pair of compasses"? 

message: It seems the English Wikipedia doesn't make a clear difference between the Technical drawing : the document and the discipline, like for example in the German Wikipedia. They offer the two articles with the introduction (translated) :   
* :de:Technisches Zeichnen : Technical drawing is the discipline of creating standarized, technical drawings by architects, design engineer, and related professions.    
* :de:Technische Zeichnung : The technical drawing is a document, that offers in graphical form all information required to construct a component, an assembly, or a complete product. This document is part of the technical documentation. 
Now the current English Wikipedia divides: 
* A technical drawing is a form of graphic communication. This type of drawing is used in the transforming of an idea into physical form.
* An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing, used to fully and clearly define requirements for engineered items, and is usually created in accordance with standardized conventions for layout, nomenclature, interpretation, appearance (such as typefaces and line styles), size, etc.
In 2006 a merge is proposed between those two, which the argument: These two articles seem to be discussing the same subject, only one discusses the tools and skills and the other discusses the drawing conventions.
Now I think both articles are primary about the technical drawing document, and this information could and should be merge in one article. It remains to be seen if a separate article about the range of technical drawing disciplines could be created as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As a start I refocused this article on the discipline of creating technical drawings. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:13, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical drawing : the document and the discipline  

message: I am trying to get an idea of the standards involved in technical drawing, also called ANSI and ISO drafting standards. A first search gave me the following standards 
=== ANSI drafting standards ===
* There seems to be ANSI standards for line conventions, dimensioning, tolerance, threads, gears, materials, and multiview, sectional-view and pictorial drawings. For example:
* ANSI Y14.2M (1987) : Line Conventions and Lettering
=== ISO drafting standards ===
* ISO 128: Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation, International Organization for Standardization / 01-Jul-1982, 01-Jul-1982, 15 pages. This International Standard specifies the general principles of presentation to be applied to technical drawings following the orthographic projection methods. However this edition is slowly being phased out and replaced by separate parts. (source: ISO 128 techstreet.com, 2009.)
* ISO 128-1:2003. Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 1: Introduction and index 
** ISO 128-20:1996 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 20: Basic conventions for lines
** ISO 128-21:1997 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 21: Preparation of lines by CAD systems
** ISO 128-22:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 22: Basic conventions and applications for leader lines and reference lines
** ISO 128-23:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 23: Lines on construction drawings
** ISO 128-24:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 24: Lines on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-25:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 25: Lines on shipbuilding drawings
** ISO 128-30:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 30: Basic conventions for views
** ISO 128-34:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 34: Views on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-40:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 40: Basic conventions for cuts and sections
** ISO 128-44:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 44: Sections on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-50:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 50: Basic conventions for representing areas on cuts and sections
* ISO 129-1:2004 Technical drawings -- Indication of [[dimension]s and tolerances -- Part 1: General principles 
* ISO 216 paper sizes, e.g. the A4 paper size 
* ISO 406:1987 Technical drawings -- Tolerancing of linear and angular dimensions 
* ISO 1660:1987 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing of profiles 
* ISO 2203:1973 Technical drawings -- Conventional representation of gears
* ISO 3040:1990 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing -- Cones 
* ISO 3098/1:1974 Technical Drawing - Lettering - Part I: Currently Used Characters 
* ISO 4172:1991 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Drawings for the assembly of prefabricated structures 
* ISO 5261:1995 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of bars and profile sections 
* ISO 5455:1979 Technical drawings -- Scales 
* ISO 5456 Technical drawings -- Projection methods
** ISO 5456-1:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 1: Synopsis 
** ISO 5456-2:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 2: Orthographic representations 
** ISO 5456-3:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 3: Axonometric representations
** ISO 5456-4:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 4: Central projection
* ISO 5457:1999 Technical product documentation -- Sizes and layout of drawing sheets
* ISO 5459:1981 Technical drawings -- Geometrical tolerancing -- Datums and datum-systems for geometrical tolerances 
* ISO 5845-1:1995 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of the assembly of parts with fasteners -- Part 1: General principles 
* ISO 6410-1:1993 Technical drawings -- Screw threads and threaded parts -- Part 1: General conventions 
* ISO 6411:1982 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of centre holes 
* ISO 6412-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of pipelines -- Part 1: General rules and orthogonal representation 
* ISO 6413:1988 Technical drawings -- Representation of splines and serrations 
* ISO 6414:1982 Technical drawings for glassware
* ISO 6428:1982 Technical drawings -- Requirements for microcopying 
* ISO 6433:1981 Technical drawings -- Item references 
* ISO 7200:1984 Technical drawings — Title blocks
* ISO 7083:1983 Technical drawings -- Symbols for geometrical tolerancing -- Proportions and dimensions 
* ISO 7437:1990 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- General rules for execution of production drawings for prefabricated structural components
* ISO 7518:1983 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Simplified representation of demolition and rebuilding
* ISO 7519:1991 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- General principles of presentation for general arrangement and assembly drawings 
* ISO 8015:1985 Technical drawings -- Fundamental tolerancing principle
* ISO 8048:1984 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of views, sections and cuts 
* ISO 8560:1986 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of modular sizes, lines and grids 
* ISO 8560:1986 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of modular sizes, lines and grids 
* ISO 8826-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Rolling bearings -- Part 1: General simplified representation 
* ISO 8826-2:1994 Technical drawings -- Rolling bearings -- Part 2: Detailed simplified representation 
* ISO 9222-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Seals for dynamic application -- Part 1: General simplified representation 
* ISO 9222-2:1989 Technical drawings -- Seals for dynamic application -- Part 2: Detailed simplified representation 
* ISO 9958-1:1992 Draughting media for technical drawings -- Draughting film with polyester base -- Part 1: Requirements and marking
* ISO 9961:1992 Draughting media for technical drawings -- Natural tracing paper 
* ISO 10209-1:1992 Technical product documentation -- Vocabulary -- Part 1: Terms relating to technical drawings: general and types of drawings
* ISO 10578:1992 Technical drawings -- Tolerancing of orientation and location -- Projected tolerance zone 
* ISO 10579:1993 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing -- Non-rigid parts
* ISO 13715:2000 Technical drawings -- Edges of undefined shape -- Vocabulary and indications 
* ISO 15786:2008 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation and dimensioning of holes 
:And further
* ISO 13567 is an international Computer-aided design (CAD) layer standard.
* CAD standards
Sources used:
* ISO Drafting Standards by Gary Whitmire, 2009.
* ISO Store Accessed 17 feb 2009.
 
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "The rules for the structure and drafting of documents intended to become International Standards... They are intended to ensure that such documents are drafted in as uniform a manner as practicable, irrespective of the technical content..." 
See also: List of ISO standards
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 11:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: IypoPeter Horn User talk 01:00, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical drawing standards 

message: * ISO 128: Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation, International Organization for Standardization / 01-Jul-1982, 01-Jul-1982, 15 pages. This International Standard specifies the general principles of presentation to be applied to technical drawings following the orthographic projection methods. However this edition is slowly being phased out and replaced by separate parts. (source: ISO 128 techstreet.com, 2009.)
* ISO 128-1:2003. Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 1: Introduction and index 
** ISO 128-20:1996 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 20: Basic conventions for lines
** ISO 128-21:1997 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 21: Preparation of lines by CAD systems
** ISO 128-22:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 22: Basic conventions and applications for leader lines and reference lines
** ISO 128-23:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 23: Lines on construction drawings
** ISO 128-24:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 24: Lines on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-25:1999 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 25: Lines on shipbuilding drawings
** ISO 128-30:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 30: Basic conventions for views
** ISO 128-34:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 34: Views on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-40:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 40: Basic conventions for cuts and sections
** ISO 128-44:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 44: Sections on mechanical engineering drawings
** ISO 128-50:2001 Technical drawings -- General principles of presentation -- Part 50: Basic conventions for representing areas on cuts and sections
* ISO 129-1:2004 Technical drawings -- Indication of [[dimension]s and tolerances -- Part 1: General principles 
* ISO 216 paper sizes, e.g. the A4 paper size 
* ISO 406:1987 Technical drawings -- Tolerancing of linear and angular dimensions 
* ISO 1660:1987 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing of profiles 
* ISO 2203:1973 Technical drawings -- Conventional representation of gears
* ISO 3040:1990 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing -- Cones 
* ISO 3098/1:1974 Technical Drawing - Lettering - Part I: Currently Used Characters 
* ISO 4172:1991 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Drawings for the assembly of prefabricated structures 
* ISO 5261:1995 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of bars and profile sections 
* ISO 5455:1979 Technical drawings -- Scales 
* ISO 5456 Technical drawings -- Projection methods
** ISO 5456-1:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 1: Synopsis 
** ISO 5456-2:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 2: Orthographic representations 
** ISO 5456-3:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 3: Axonometric representations
** ISO 5456-4:1996 Technical drawings -- Projection methods -- Part 4: Central projection
* ISO 5457:1999 Technical product documentation -- Sizes and layout of drawing sheets
* ISO 5459:1981 Technical drawings -- Geometrical tolerancing -- Datums and datum-systems for geometrical tolerances 
* ISO 5845-1:1995 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of the assembly of parts with fasteners -- Part 1: General principles 
* ISO 6410-1:1993 Technical drawings -- Screw threads and threaded parts -- Part 1: General conventions 
* ISO 6411:1982 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of centre holes 
* ISO 6412-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation of pipelines -- Part 1: General rules and orthogonal representation 
* ISO 6413:1988 Technical drawings -- Representation of splines and serrations 
* ISO 6414:1982 Technical drawings for glassware
* ISO 6428:1982 Technical drawings -- Requirements for microcopying 
* ISO 6433:1981 Technical drawings -- Item references 
* ISO 7200:1984 Technical drawings — Title blocks
* ISO 7083:1983 Technical drawings -- Symbols for geometrical tolerancing -- Proportions and dimensions 
* ISO 7437:1990 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- General rules for execution of production drawings for prefabricated structural components
* ISO 7518:1983 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Simplified representation of demolition and rebuilding
* ISO 7519:1991 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- General principles of presentation for general arrangement and assembly drawings 
* ISO 8015:1985 Technical drawings -- Fundamental tolerancing principle
* ISO 8048:1984 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of views, sections and cuts 
* ISO 8560:1986 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of modular sizes, lines and grids 
* ISO 8560:1986 Technical drawings -- Construction drawings -- Representation of modular sizes, lines and grids 
* ISO 8826-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Rolling bearings -- Part 1: General simplified representation 
* ISO 8826-2:1994 Technical drawings -- Rolling bearings -- Part 2: Detailed simplified representation 
* ISO 9222-1:1989 Technical drawings -- Seals for dynamic application -- Part 1: General simplified representation 
* ISO 9222-2:1989 Technical drawings -- Seals for dynamic application -- Part 2: Detailed simplified representation 
* ISO 9958-1:1992 Draughting media for technical drawings -- Draughting film with polyester base -- Part 1: Requirements and marking
* ISO 9961:1992 Draughting media for technical drawings -- Natural tracing paper 
* ISO 10209-1:1992 Technical product documentation -- Vocabulary -- Part 1: Terms relating to technical drawings: general and types of drawings
* ISO 10578:1992 Technical drawings -- Tolerancing of orientation and location -- Projected tolerance zone 
* ISO 10579:1993 Technical drawings -- Dimensioning and tolerancing -- Non-rigid parts
* ISO 13715:2000 Technical drawings -- Edges of undefined shape -- Vocabulary and indications 
* ISO 15786:2008 Technical drawings -- Simplified representation and dimensioning of holes 
:And further
* ISO 13567 is an international Computer-aided design (CAD) layer standard.
* CAD standards
Sources used:
* ISO Drafting Standards by Gary Whitmire, 2009.
* ISO Store Accessed 17 feb 2009.
 
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISO drafting standards 

message: More sources:
* ISO Standards Handbook - Technical drawings, see here gives about the same listing. Extra in that list are for example ISO 3098 and ISO 3272 and some more: 
** ISO 3098-0:1997 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 0: General requirements Technical drawings, Ed. 4, Vol. 1 Page 2 of 3
** ISO 3098-2:2000 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 2: Latin alphabet, numerals and marks
** ISO 3098-3:2000 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 3: Greek alphabet 
** ISO 3098-4:2000 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 4: Diacritical and particular marks for the Latin alphabet
** ISO 3098-5:1997 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 5: CAD lettering of the Latin alphabet, numerals and marks
** ISO 3098-6:2000 Technical product documentation — Lettering — Part 6: Cyrillic alphabet 
** ISO 3272-1:1983 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 1: Operating procedures
** ISO 3272-2:1994 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 2: Quality criteria and control of 35 mm silver gelatin microfilms
** ISO 3272-3:2001 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 3: Aperture card for 35 mm microfilm
** ISO 3272-4:1994 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 4: Microfilming of drawings of special and exceptional elongated sizes
** ISO 3272-5:1999 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 5: Test procedures for diazo duplicating of microfilm images in aperture cards
** ISO 3272-6:2000 Microfilming of technical drawings and other drawing office documents — Part 6: Quality criteria and control of systems for enlargements from 35 mm microfilm
* ISO Drafting standards states:
:"The rules for the structure and drafting of documents intended to become International Standards... They are intended to ensure that such documents are drafted in as uniform a manner as practicable, irrespective of the technical content..." 
See also: List of ISO standards
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 11:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources and related ISO standards 

message: The most popular "ASME Drawing and Drafting Standards" according to "The Drawing Requirements Manual (DRM)" 
* ASME  Y14.1 Decimal Inch Drawing Sheet Size and Format
* ASME  Y14.1M Metric Drawing Sheet Size and Format
* ASME  Y14.2M Line Conventions and Lettering
* ASME  Y14.4M Pictorial Drawing
* ASME  Y14.5M Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
** Dimensioning is an irrelevant article in this case.  would be a better choice. Peter Horn User talk 00:37, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: IypoPeter Horn User talk 01:00, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ASME drafting standards 

message: * The Drafting Zone helps users more accurately apply and interpret ASME, ANSI, ISO, etc. standards to the drawings they create and work with.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 12:48, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources 

message: I think the whole "manual drafting" section should not be moved to the top of the article, but should be  moved to a separate artcile... and should be improved. The currently it reads like a "how to manual" starting with:
:The basic drafting procedure is to place a piece of paper (or other material) on a smooth surface with right-angle corners and straight sides...
This really doesn't fit an introduction article about the field of technical drawing. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:01, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manual drafting 

message: I think all graphical projection methods should be in one chapter or subchapter, without other styles of technical drawings such as Assembly, Cross section, Cutaway, Exploded view, Technical illustration and Technical sketching. Those could be in a separate chapter as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Graphical projection]] 

message: It is common in Wikipedia articles that the last part of the article explains about the application of technical drawing. That is why I put the section about "drafter" there. This section shouldn't also be moved on top of the article, but should stay there. A section of applications could be improved as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:14, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The application of technical drawing 

message: The section about "Basic drafting paper sizes" could be moved to the engineering drawing article. I think this information is far to specific here. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basic drafting paper sizes 

message: In the Architectural drawing article and in the patent drawing article I outlined a section about drawing techniques. I think this article should contain a similar section as well, which outlines all techniques. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A similar section can be found in the CAD standards article. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 13:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And an ever greater section in the Engineering drawing article is the chapter Engineering drawing#Engineering drawings: common features. Maybe a short intro of the features will do here, with a  link. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Even the Plan (drawing) article seem to have a section about drawing features. There seems to be a lot of redundancy here. An alternative here, could be to start a template about it and add it to all these article. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drawing techniques 

message: In the ISO 128 article I gave an overview of the ISO standard related to technical drawing. I think this article should have a section about this as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISO standard related to technical drawing 

message: I think the history section could and should be improved as well. I even thing eventually it could be possible to start a separate article about the history of technical drawing. 
I have allready collected several (new) facts about this history, and added them in the separate article (and in the Dutch Projectiemethode article). These could be collected and add together here. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:20, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This The history of technical drawing by George Goodall is definetly an interesting article about this. Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The history section 

message: If we agree on this classification, we can use this as a building block and further rearrange the article. All overview article I created have a similar structure, which I experienced in other stable articles, and gave my articles stability. This structure is (more or less) like this: 
#Overview 
#History
#Types (Types of technical drawings) 
#Topics (Technical drawings topics)
#Applications
These are the mainchapters. I use some kinds of variants, for example the overview section can be compressed in the first introduction, like it is at the moment. However right now I am missing a part there explaining about the multiple meaning of the term technical drawing, which could be the basic for a new overview section. 
I could explain some more how we could proceed, but first I want to ask you if you agree so far? -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 13:09, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reorganization 

message: Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed one or more section of this article for now. 
I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article section(s) removed 

message: This article or section appears to have been copied and pasted from various Wikipedia articles, possibly in violation of a copyright. This has occurred Feb 9, 2009 when I started this article.
I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks User:Wtshymanski for calling the history section "cool history section". Right now I am sorry to repeat, that this section should be doublechecked for possible copyvio problems. Eventually I will restore the section and hope to improve it much further. But right now I would like to ask you to have patience. I allready notified a mod, see here. If you have further questions please do so, or ask PBS. -- Mdd (talk) 23:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm confused.  If the text comes from other Wikipedia articles, it's not a copyright violation 9unless it was a violtatino in those other articles?). It looks like user:Mdd contributed that text. if it was a literal transcription of the referenced texts, it may be too long and insufficently set off to be a fair quotation from the original texts - but the snippet view that Google gives of the one text I looked at indicates the test sentence I tried is at best a paraphrase of the source refernce, not a literal copy. So, what Wikipedia articles did the history section come from? Is it copied from the reference texts or paraphrased? I really like history sections in technical articles and would like to see this text restored as quickly as practical.  --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:04, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is a bit confusing. I redesigned the article in 2008 using several sections from other articles, which need to be registered. The history itself is constructed from several quotes from several books. Here I first need to check, rewrite some and/or add quote marks. I will do so (in a while). And you can do so as well if you like : checked the text with the original sources..!? -- Mdd (talk) 00:14, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied and pasted from various Wikipedia articles 

message: * In this edit text is copy/paste here from the Computer Aided Design article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the CAD drafter article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the CAD drafter article (the text itself is from a pd source)
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the Architectural drawing, engineering drawing  article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the patent drawing article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the cutaway drawing andexploded view drawing article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the Technical illustration  article
* In this edit text is copy/paste here from the sketch article
-- Mdd (talk) 19:45, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-paste registration 

message: The article does not satisfactorily explain the different conventions for projections. They should be covered at least to a basic level with a link to Multiview orthographic projection
The Yowser (talk) 17:13, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Projections 

message: Take care: The word typically is used six times in this article. In context, this is a weasel word, and it reads poorly. –Ringbang (talk) 15:48, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typically... 

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message: Why have you reverted my edit adding draughting to the list of alternative spellings? It is the preferred spelling in British English and probably in every English speaking country except for North America. Polymath uk (talk) 07:55, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draughting 

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