Diagonal Scale — Study Resources & PYQs
Construction and use of diagonal scales.
- Estimated study time: 60 minutes
Study resources
- Scales - Plain and Diagonal (Virtual Labs, Govt. of India, Engineering Graphics Lab) (Article) — Government-funded Virtual Labs experiment walking through the construction of plain and diagonal scales from a given representative fraction, with the underlying theory and self-test questions.
- Constructing a Diagonal Scale (Open University of Kenya, Technical Drawing course video) (Video) — University course video demonstrating how to construct a diagonal scale, which measures a unit and its two immediate sub-divisions more precisely than a plain scale.
- NPTEL — Introduction to Engineering Drawing, IIT Guwahati (Article) — NPTEL engineering-drawing course covering lettering, dimensioning, scales, projections, sections and development of surfaces.
- Autodesk — AutoCAD Learning (Article) — Autodesk learning resources for CAD drafting, geometry, projection, dimensioning and drawing workflows.
Taught in these subjects
- Engineering Drawing with CAD — BMET21 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Engineering Drawing — MET5202 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu