Engineering Graphic Modelling

DRAWING TECHNIQUE

4.6

DRAWING WITH A PLOTTER

Use

Many computers have the facility to produce drawings on a plotter

or screen. On a screen, instantaneous illustrations are available saving

time consuming drawing.

It is outside the scope of this book to go into further detail. Some of

the possibilities are shown in the examples.

In many cases standard sub-routines are available for generating text,

drawing axes, scaling etc, these should be exploited whenever possible.

Force in Newtons. Body weight in kg 80 0

The plot of a curve and the marking and labelling of the axes.

The plotter output for the movement of a mechanism at different

positions ...