Sentence examples for drafting machine from inspiring English sources

The drafting machine, introduced about 1930, allows a straightedge to be moved while maintaining any desired angle between it and the edge of the drawing board.

A drawing that would in the past have taken an architect hours or even days to finish could be completed in a minute or two by a computer-driven drafting machine.

Organized by UCLA architecture critic and historian Sylvia Lavin, this show examines the ways in which technology has been employed (and not) in the world of design — a show that will be staged in the historic Rudolph Schindler House, which the architect designed with the aid of a drafting machine.

Prior to this, the manual method was in use, using a T-square or drafting machine, 45 & 60 degree triangles, a lead pointer and a few other tools of the trade.

The diazo process, xerography, and computer-controlled drafting machines have more recently shared this function.

Continuous-path NC systems are commonly used on machines that perform contouring operations, such as milling machines, lathes, flame-cutting machines, and drafting machines.

Other machines using numerical control include component-insertion machines used in electronics assembly, drafting machines that prepare engineering drawings, coordinate measuring machines that perform accurate inspections of parts, and flame cutting machines and similar devices.

Back home in St . Louis she now buys all the ice intended for consumption at Ladue Market, where a 10-pound bag ($1.75) is dispensed from a Kold-Draft machine.

At better bars, your Old Fashioned or other rocks drink is likely to come with the medium-size square cubes characteristic of the Kold-Draft machine.

Best Ice For The Job: The rise of the "mixology" movement has given us craft tonic water, homemade bitters and all sorts of esoteric ingredients, but no cocktail paradigm has changed as much as ice - any "craft" cocktail bar worth its salt has an "ice program," typically using a very expensive Hoshizaki or Kold Draft machine to make crystal clear ice free of impurities and oxygen bubbles.

Machine building today is a process in which several parties work, either sequentially or in parallel: From drafting a machine concept through mechanical and electrical engineering, automation to commissioning and actual machine operation.