Introduction to My Mechanical drawing

While I am waiting for my T-square, protractor, triangles and other equipment to arrive for all that I will need to draw my interpretations of this art form. I was thinking of writing short lessons, or one may call them study guides pertaining to this subject. I bought a mechanical drawing textbook a long time ago when I first thought of this idea, but other things came along.

I am thinking about summarizing each chapter of the textbook and answering the review questions at the end of each chapter. As for my future drawings I am thinking about working on some of problems in each chapter. Chapter One was mainly about the history of this subject. Chapter Two was about the equipment needed and used. Chapter Three was about Geometry for mechanical drawing and some of the exercises in this chapter will be my first drawings that will probably be very basic shapes drawn with three views.

For me this is going to be fun, and I hope you all will enjoy this blast from the past subject. Mechanical drawing is the precursor to computer-aided drafting, but the skills are still the same except instead of paper and pencil all the drawing in done on computer. Sorry for mentioning so basic a fact for I know you all know this. In my reading the first few chapters the author stated that this form of drawing in all about communication and learning what is needed to be an artist that is competent to show how to make various objects and remembering the geometry of this subject. Please let me know what you think about this idea of learning lessons/study guides.