Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

In the meeting of my Manual Drafting classes for the eleventh week of the second term, I gave them the incomplete orthogonal views with hidden lines, from which they are supposed to draw the last view and the isometric as well.

I also gave them three samples of how simple hidden views translated to isometric form, so that they could use it to determine how the final drawings would look like in the more complicated work required.

Just like the last two meetings, I had one plate assigned for the two classes, again divided alphabetically down the middle, giving a total of four designs.

In my personal opinion, even though the plates still represented four by four by four unit cubes like in the previous meeting, that they were not as complicated as the figures I gave for the slanted lines, although these also had slanted lines.

I even gave lines that were only visible in the orthogonal projection (including the third one they had to come up with from the first two) but would not be seen in the isometric view.

I also told the students that there was more than one possible answer, so I could not tell them exactly if the sample drawings that they asked me about were correct or not.

One student, whose drawing lacked a hidden line, I for instance told, “Something’s missing.” When he drew a solid visible line, I said, “Something’s incorrect.” That stumped him for a while.

This was also the meeting where I told them about the special project they could make for the class to boost up their grades.

I shook my head when some thought it was supposed to be joining the field trip of my other class.

I also declined when they thought they had to come up with an Innovation Week project in the scant time remaining until the end of the term.

All I wanted from them was to make solid cardboard figures as much as a foot cube from the plates that we have done so far.

When they complained that the next classes would then have the solid figures they would submit to work with (and that it was unfair to them), I told them that I would give the next classes (provided it is assigned to me, that is) their works as samples, and assign them more difficult figures that they still have to imagine.

Session 871 has a line missing. Class dismissed.