We have a lot to thank computers for; the laptop I typed this article on can execute millions of instructions every second. This is a number us humans can’t comprehend, but thankfully, computers can.

Use the drawing tools under the "Insert" menu in Microsoft Excel to draw an image to scale by tracing that image. One advantage of using Excel's drawing tools for this project, rather than a graphics ...

According to Arrette, "though most design work these days is being done on computers, the design process is a cycle: from the original idea, to paper, to computer, to paper, and back again many times.

For years, leaders of architectural firms have bemoaned the lack of hand drawing skills among recent graduates and young professionals entering the practice. With a tendency to bypass hand drawing and ...

Architecture's design process has always been shaped by the tools at hand. We once drew with pen and ink on fragile sheets, copied by blueprint and guarded against smudges and tears; then Mylar ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A scale drawing shows a real object, with accurate proportions, reduced or enlarged by a certain amount ...

A scale drawing of a bridge has the same shape as the real bridge that it represents but a different size. Scale drawings close scale drawingAn accurate drawing, or model, of a representation of a ...