Traditional Drafting Techniques - General Questions

The first step in creating a traditional technical drawing is to ________.

Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for________.

Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is the equivalent mm measurement of ³/₁₆ inch.

An engineer's scale would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads ________.

In order to convert fractional inches into decimal inches ________.

A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his ________ scale for checking printed drawings.

Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

Traditional drafters need to be able to create several different line widths because ________.