Rack and Holder Examples; Working Drawing Views

The first step to making something is to have a plan for what you are 
making. For the Rack / Holder Project assignment you will need to submit Scale Working Drawings sufficient to be used to make your project. These drawings will need to include at least two views (front and side elevation; or front elevation and plan view).

HOWEVER
You should start your design work with LOTS of quick sketches for ideas. DO NOT start by trying to make a scale drawing of just one idea. Start with many sketches. You must show me at least three different ideas.

Then you will want to decide how big you would like your piece to be (you can have enough wood to make something up to about one board foot).  If you want more wood than that, your cost will be $3.00 per board foot. A board foot is a piece of wood 12"x12"x1" or any equivalent volume. What is the volume of a board foot of wood?

I will provide ¼" graph paper. A scale drawing will be pretty easy to produce using a ¼" scale such as ¼"=1" or ¼" = 2".

Here  are some classic examples of elevations and views for a typical piece of architecture.

The same idea can apply to machines (or anything one can build or imagine).

This abstraction may help you think about the idea more clearly.

Remember for this project you do not necessarily need to make three (or four, or more views), but you should choose the two that will best help you understand how your parts go together.




Here are some examples of racks and holders.

These following pictures represent the beginning of some more inventive ideas from an adult class I helped teach: