Technical drawing

1521 Italian translation of De Architectura Libri Decem (The Ten Books on Architecture) by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio.

Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or is to be constructed.

History

Early civilisation

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  Statues of Gudea, ca. 2144 - 2124 BC
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  1891 drawing of statue of Gudea as architect
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  Fragment of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, showing the Theatre of Pompey, 203-211
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  Other fragment of Severan Marble Plan of Rome
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  Other fragment of Severan Marble Plan of Rome

Middle Ages

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  Vivarium from Bamberg manuscript of Cassiodorus Institutiones, 8th c.
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  Plan of Saint Gall, early 9th c.
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  Plan of Saint Gall (detail), early 9th c.
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  Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Thoughts, 11th c.
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  Al-Jazari Automata, 1205
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  Al-Jazari water device, 13th c.
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  Al-Jazari Musical Toy, 13th c.
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  Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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  Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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  Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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  Buttress at Reims from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230-35
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  Sections of piers from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230-35
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  Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt, c. 1230
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  Histoire du bon roi Alexandre (Alexanderroman), Szene: Le chastel dou Cahaire, 13th c.
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  Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral by Opicinus de Canistris, 1260s
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  Cathedral of Pavia by Opicinus de Canistris, Avignon, France; 1335–50
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  Sketch of a crank wagon by Guido da Vigevano, 14th c.

Renaissance

15th century

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  Machines by Taccola (1382–1453), 15th c.
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  Overbalanced wheel by Taccola (1382–1453), 15th c.
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  Spinnrad in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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  Stampfwerk in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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  Drehbank in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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  Lorenz Lechner, Unterweisung, ca. 1500, fol. 41

16th century

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  Baldassare Peruzzi, Design for an altar, 1527.
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  Albrecht Durer, 1525
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  Sketch of the Arch of Janus by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484 – 1546)
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575

17th century

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  Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1650
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  Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1650
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  Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1669
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  Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1669
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  1673
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  1673
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  1673
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  1673
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  1673
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  1689
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  1689
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  1697

18th century

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  Ichnographica Rustica, 1718
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  Palazzo by Marcus Tuscher, 1729
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  Martinikirche, Bremen by J D Heinbach, 1734
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  Monument to Frederick V by Marcus Tuscher, 1750
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  Blackfriars Bridge, London, under construction in 1764

19th century

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  Instruments for making perspective drawings, 1814
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  Farey's Elliptograph, 1825
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  A Treatise on the Steam Engine, 1827
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  Plates on the bazar and bathhouse, 1840
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  Montage Plan Weltausstellung, 1873
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  Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent, 1880

20th century

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  Nuruosmaniye Mosque Gurlitt, 1912,
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21st century

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Types of technical drawings

 See also category: Technical drawings by type.

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  Blueprints
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  Cross sections
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  Cutaway diagrams
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  Electrical schemas
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  Exploded views
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  General arrangements
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  Line drawings
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  Patent drawings
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  Sketches
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  Technical drawings with frame
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  Technical illustrations

Technical drawing by field

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  Architectural drawings
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  Civil engineering drawing
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  Engineering drawing

Technical drawing by theme

 See also category: Technical drawings by theme.

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  Artillery drawings
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  Drawings of dovetails
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  Drawings of firearms
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  Foundations drawings
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  Technical drawings of furniture
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  Technical drawings of instruments
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  Drawings of light bulbs

Technical drawing discipline

 See also category: Technical drawing.

15th-18th century

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  Benedikt Rejt, early 16th c.
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  1525
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  1525
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  1525
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  1525
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  1525
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  1525
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  Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-1604), 16th c.
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  1607
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  1607
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  1607
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  1626
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  1696
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  1710
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  1718

19th century

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  ca. 1864
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  1879
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  1860-1890s
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  1893
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  1896
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  Late 19th c.

20th century

20th century, first part

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  1900
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  1908
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  Early 20th c.
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  1920s
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  1920s
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  1922-25
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  1937
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  1940-45
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  1940s
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  1941-45
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  1942
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  1942
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  1942
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  1943
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  1945
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  1949

20th century, second part

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  1950s
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  1951
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  1951
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  1951
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  1951
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  1952
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  1953
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  1954
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  1955
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  1957
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  1958
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  1959
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  1960
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  1960
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  1960
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  1961
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  1961
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  1962
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  1963
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  1963
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  1967
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  1970s
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  1970s
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  1973
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  1973
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  1973
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  1974
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  1975
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  1975
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  1978
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  1979
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  1980
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  1982
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  1987

21st century

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  2002
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  2003
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  2003
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  2004
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  2005
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  2007
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  2010

See also

• Drawing
• Drawing offices
• Evolution of Perspective
• Map
• Perspective
• Technical drawings