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The document discusses two research titles related to developing an automated drafting arm. It provides background on drafting and how drafting machines were used before computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The proposed automated drafting arm would allow drafters to manually draft plans using a single arm equipped with different measuring tools, providing benefits of both manual and digital drafting methods. It aims to simplify the creation and measurement of lines for drafting students and professionals.

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The document discusses two research titles related to developing an automated drafting arm. It provides background on drafting and how drafting machines were used before computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The proposed automated drafting arm would allow drafters to manually draft plans using a single arm equipped with different measuring tools, providing benefits of both manual and digital drafting methods. It aims to simplify the creation and measurement of lines for drafting students and professionals.

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RESEARCH TITLES:

1. THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF AUTOMATED DRAFTING ARM

2. A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATICALLY RE-SCALED DEVISED

ARM AS A DRAFTING PRODUCTION TOOL


Chapter 1

The Problem and It’s Background

Introduction

Technology influences every aspect of our lives. The

Drafting Technology is important because technical drawing is

vital for the inception, development and communication of ideas

related to technology, industry and scientific development.

Technical drawing is an important form of communication.

Drafting is the primary method of communication between

designers and clients, architects, and builders, engineers and

production personnel and between advertisers and customers. A

drawing, when used to show the material, dimensions, and shapes

of product, is known as a technical drawing (French 1974).

In old times and even nowadays, people especially the

architecture and drafting students were having difficulties in

making a perfect line by using ruler or other measuring tools

which sometimes it is time consuming of every measuring tools

you want to used based on your work-in-progress plans. We all

know that we have a CAD system to make the plans easier to draft

using computer, drafters can create and store drawings

electronically so that they can be viewed, printed, or


programmed directly into automated manufacturing systems (Bureau

of Labor Statistics, 2008)

Drafters still need knowledge of traditional drafting

techniques and some of drafters will much prefer the manual

planning especially the students who are just beginning to make

a plan. And in order to use more of measuring tools, the

researchers present this invention which could help the drafter

to manually draft their plans using the drafting arm with any

measuring tools attached in single device only. It is simple

machine to create and measure lines similar in Drafting Machine.

it can use the different measuring tools in just one arm.


Related Literature

A drafting machine is a tool used in technical drawing,

consisting of a pair of scales mounted to form a right angle on

an articulated protractor head that allows an angular rotation.

(Hearst Magazines , December 1993)

The drafting machine was invented by Charles H. Little in

1901 (U.S. Patent No. 1,081,758), and he founded the Universal

Drafting Machine Company in Cleveland, Ohio, to manufacture and

sell the instrument. (The National Cyclopedia of American

Biography 1950)

Drafting machines were present in the design offices of

European companies since the 1920s. The Encyclopedia Britannica

explicitly specifies 1930 as the year this tool was introduced,

but an advertisement of "Memorie di architettura pratica" from

1913 places it twenty years before this date—at least in Italy.

In the older design sets, the movement of the protractor

head was assured by a pantograph system that could keep the head

in the same angular position throughout its range of motion. The

arms were balanced by a system of counterweights or springs.

Typically, the machine is mounted on a drawing board with a

hard and smooth surface, anchored to a base that allows its

tilting and lifting. Thus, the realization of a drawing can be


achieved in the most convenient way on a working surface that

can be tilted at any angle from horizontal to vertical.

There are special versions for A0 double-sized boards, to

make large drawings, or copying-boards with background

illumination, which have all that is necessary to provide

specific support.

With the drafting machine one can perform a series of

drawing operations that otherwise could only be achieved with a

much more complex use of the classic ruler square and

protractor, as, for example, drawing parallel lines, orthogonal

lines, inclined lines according to a preset angle, measurement

of angles, etc.
REFERENFCES

https://dvgmartinez.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/basic-drafting/

https://www.cdschools.org/Page/458

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_machine#cite_note-2

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