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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In my Graphics Two Manual Drafting classes for the thirteenth week of the second term, we had their last plate. Again, I made one plate for the morning class and another for the noon class.

For more variety, so to speak, I used the same front view that was in the previous plate, and I just made different right side views for it, as opposed to the block top views I included last meeting.

These side views now incorporated slanted lines and still used some hidden lines.

The problem was that since there was a tilted cross, for lack of a better way of describing it, that visible from the front, the horizontal arms of this cross were not exactly at the one centimeter grid lines as seen from the top view.

I had to tell them to go back to using the forty five degree projection lines between the right side view and the top view, and this time they had to use it for the side view and the bottom view as well.

I thought that after the last meeting they would be more prepared for the last and most difficult plate, but I guess they either decided to wing it again, or to believe that I was going to make an easier task that they could finish in three hours given their extensions the week before.

Now for their finals I’m thinking of not having them make a plate, but make a solid figure based on the views given. That should be easier.

And speaking of solid figures, two students have already submitted their projects.

One used the one foot cube largest dimensions I specified. So that his figure had a scale of 1 centimeter is to three inches. This I showed to the class on that final meeting, since it was passed the day before.

Another student passed his work, but this was more like a six inch cube if not smaller. I can’t make him repeat it though. It can be studied correctly by the students of next year anyway.

Session 899 did not finish the plate at the end of the period. Class dismissed.