Don't ya' dare to drop the draft.

    

     The methods of drawing is to sketch your ideas first using free hand method either it is an artist sketch or technical sketch, then draft your work (it's more complex because it needs math) and lastly is to make use of CAD to aid the designers in organizing.

     DRAFTING is commonly known as architectural drawing or architect's drawing. It is a set of techniques that truly appreciates scales, proportions, and accuracy. It is also a technical drawing of a building or any building project, houses, floors, sites, vicinity maps or even furniture that falls within the term architecture.

     Architectural drawings are used by architects, engineers, contractors and others for a number of purposes: first, is to develop ideas into a particular proposal; second, is to communicate ideas, designs and concepts; third, is to convince clients and customers to choose your designs when you show it to them; fourth, is to enable engineers and building contractors construct your work; fifth, it will be your record of the completed work; sixth and lastly, is to make a record of any existing building.

If you are interested in drafting, then I'll take you to much deeper..

DEPTH LOOK

     There are almost nine major kinds of drafting. First, is the "furniture drafting" that deals with furniture, objects, and things like sofa, television sets, cabinets, tables, chairs, decks, dividers, vases, and many more. Second, is the "architectural drafting" this is where you'll going to see floor plans, site plans, axonometrics, isometrics, dimetrics, trimetrics, orthographics, cavaliers, cabinets, one-point perspectives, two-point perspectives, three-point perspectives and other plans that obviously have their scales, with accuracy written either on a linen paper or tracing paper. Third, is the "ship drafting" or "naval drafting" it is the map of of a ship that  shows its parts, length, width, total capacities, chairs, divisions, and layers (that depends upon its area.) Fourth, is the "sheet metal drafting" that represents solid model solutions. Fifth, is the "mechanical drafting" or "machine drafting", it is responsible for "engineering mechanics" that include statics and dynamics. Statics includes the scalars and vectors, rule for manipulating vectors, components of two dimensions of Cartesian plane, components of three dimensions  of Cartesian plane, dot products, cross products mixed triple products, forces, equilibrium and free-body diagram, two-dimensional force systems, three-dimensional force systems, two-dimensional description of the moment, the moment vector,and many more. In dynamics, there re position velocity, and acceleration, straight lines and curvilinear, momentum, rigid bodies, rotation of fixed bodies and many more. Sixth, is the "airplane drafting" it also includes the maps, navigation, and the full structure of airplane in draft form. Seventh, is the "structural drafting" where the engineers is the responsible of making this, (much specifically the civil engineers) it looks like a site plan. For number eight is the "topographical drafting," it is all about the scientific description of the surface features of a region or place, and for the last is the "electrical drafting" that shows the plugs, connections, switches, octopus wiring, circuits and electrical wiring including the fuse.

      Drafting were made according to a set of conventions, which include particular views (such as floor plans, site plans, sections, projections, perspectives, obliques, elevations, etc.) sheet sizes, annotations and cross referencing, units of measurements and scales. Traditionally, drawings are made by an ink and paper or a similar materials, and any copies required that made by free hand. On the 20th century, the people saw a sudden shift on the styles of drawings and that is to draw on tracing paper, so that mechanical copies could be done easier and more efficiently.

DRAFTING TODAY

     The development of technologies and computers had a major impact on the modern methodology used to design and create technical drawings, manual drawings are almost obsolete, and opening fresh possibilities of form using organic shapes, distortion and complex geometry.

     Today the vast majority of drawings are created through the use of CAD software in the computers (Computer Aided Designs). Let's try to Para-phrase it to have a deep meaning "it is the type of drawing with the help of computer." Anyone can try these applications and for more similar app try to visit this software: AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, 3DSMAX and many more.