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Lower Prices.  \n[www.SDCpublications.com](www.SDCpublications.com)  \nVisit the following websites to learn more about this book:  \n4  \nCHAPTER  \nPictorials  \n1. Introduction  \nTechnical illustrations provide detailed information about the shape, size, and material of a product or design and they need to be accurate, clear, and unambiguous. Although objects are three-dimensional, representing 3D objects accurately on 2D media, such as paper, is not trivial and requires special care.  \nThe precise representation of an object on a plane (called picture plane or projection plane) from a particular point of view is called true projection. Think of the picture plane as a paper located between the viewer and the object. A drawing is created by connecting the points where the lines of sight from the viewer’s position, traveling to the different points on the object, intersect the projection plane (see Figure 4.1) . Drawing true projections of objects is a laborious process, so alternative projection methods have been developed to simplify this task. This simplification is accomplished by taking anglesand measurements to produce a projection that resembles the true projection of the object.  \nOne of these projection methods has already been discussed in the previous chapter; orthographic drawings use three principal orthographic planes (horizontal, frontal, and profile) as picture planes to produce several views of an object. For each view, the observer is located at infinity in front of the projection plane, hence the lines of sight travel parallel to each other in the direction of the object and hit the picture plane perpendicularly. Each orthographic projection generates a drawing that shows only two dimensions. Therefore, more than one drawing is required to fully describe any object.  \nPictorials are a type of technical drawing that shows several faces of an object at once, much as they would be captured by a camera. Pictorial drawings are often more clearly understood than orthographic drawings, especially for non-technical audiences. As opposed to multi-view drawings, where the viewer  \nFigure 4.1 True projection of an object 41  \nis required to mentally visualize and combine the individual views into one 3D object, pictorials show all three dimensions of an object in one single drawing. Pictorial drawings are commonly used in conjunction with orthographic drawings. They are very useful in the early stages of the design process, as they mimic the way we represent objects in our mind and how we visualize spatial relationships.  \n2. Types of Projections  \nThere are four major projection techniques used in engineering: orthographic, axonometric, oblique, and perspective, as shown in Figure 4.2. Axonometric, Oblique, and Perspective projections are pictorials, showing all three dimensions of an object in a single drawing. Orthographic projections require multiple 2D drawings to describe any object. Orthographic, Axonometric, and Oblique projections are parallel projections, which means that lines that are parallel on the real object will remain parallel on the drawing as well. This simplification is a result of theoretically locating the viewer infinitely far away from the picture plane and assuming that the lines of sight travel parallel to each other and perpendicular to the projection plane.  \nPerspective projections are non-parallel projections: lines that are parallel in the real object are not necessarily shown as parallel in the perspective drawing. Perspective projections reproduce the effect that distant objects appear smaller than objects that are closer to the observer and represent how an eye perceives the world. Lines that are parallel in nature appear to converge towards a single point, depending on the position of the viewer.  \nPictorials  \nParallel Projections  \nFigure 4.2 ","cbCaik3SzUcoZAqL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik3SzUcoZAqL","pdf",5368863,28,"English","# Chapter 1 - Pictorials\n## 1. Introduction\n## 2. Types of Projections\n## 3. Axonometric Projections","[{\"question\":\"What is true projection and why is it difficult to draw accurately?\",\"answer\":\"True projection represents the picture plane intersection of lines of sight from a chosen viewpoint. 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