technical drawing

English

Noun

technical drawing (countable and uncountable, plural technical drawings)

1. A depiction that relays the concept or idea for a physical object or group of physical objects.

   Technical drawings include engineering drawings, sketches, CAD, and more.

   • 1998, John Bickford, Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints, page 193:

     Figure 9 is an example of a technical drawing of an external metric thread. The major diameter is shown in bold lines.

2. The art of producing such pictures.
   • 2015, David E. Goetsch, Raymond L. Rickman, William S. Chalk, Technical Drawing for Engineering Communication, page 131:

     Having studied technical drawing in high school and then gone on to get a degree in engineering and drafting, he knew that he did have experience in a more lucrative field.

3. The act of producing such a picture. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

depiction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: rys (cs) m
• Finnish: tekninen piirustus
• German: Technische Zeichnung f, Riss (de) m, Schema (de) n
• Latvian: rasējums m
• Polish: rysunek techniczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: desenho técnico m
• Romanian: desen tehnic (ro) n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: dibujo técnico m
• Swedish: ritning (sv) c, konstruktionsritning c, byggritning c

art

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: rýsování n
• Finnish: tekninen piirustus
• German: Technisches Zeichnen n
• Latvian: rasējums
• Polish: rysunek techniczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: dibujo técnico m
• Swedish: ritteknik (sv) c

act

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: rýsování n, narýsování n
• Finnish: tekninen piirtäminen
• Latvian: rasēšana
• Polish: kreślenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: dibujo técnico m
• Swedish: ritning (sv) c, ritande (sv) n, uppritning c