ABSTRACT
Before you start any drawing you first decide how large the drawings have to be. The different views of the object to be drawn must not be bunched together or be too far apart. If you are able to do this and still draw the object in its natural size then obviously this is best. This is not always possible; the object may be much too large for the paper or much too small to be drawn clearly. In either case it will be necessary to draw the object ‘ to scale ’ . The scale must depend on the size of the object; a miniature electronic component may have to be drawn 100 times larger than it really is, whilst some maps have natural dimensions divided by millions.
