Tools Tools Tools

For this week, I am going to talk about the tools an architect uses daily.  I know just being in class I have over 20 things in my bag. So I'm not going to drag out and explain all the tools. The main tools used on the daily are a lead holder, straightedge and eraser/ eraser shield. 

A lead holder is basically a lead pencil that has thicker more defined lead in it. An architect won't just have one lead holder. That'd be stupid. They need certain lead to draw different lines. It all depends on how thick they want the lines to be. They normally will have at least three different ones. That way they can just pick up the next pencil instead of taking the time to switch the leads out. 

A straight edge is a parallel bar connected to a drawing board. It is used to line your paper up straight. It is also used to draw horizontal straight lines. You can place a triangle on it so you can get straight vertical lines as well. It's very useful to the architect when drawing plans. 







An eraser is common sense I think on what it does, but an eraser shield on the other hand is a very nifty tool. Say you want to erase something but there are other lines in your way. An eraser shield is this little object that has different holes in it to get little details erased with out ruining the whole drawing.