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X Marks the Spot (III) A short thread on describing a French carpentry drawing technique.

X Marks the Spot (III)

This is post 3, with previous installments located in the 'blog archive' to the right of the page. We left off last time having formed a right angled triangle defining the slope of one of our pieces of wood. Traditional Layout Using the Rabattement Surface. Traditional Layout uses the Rabattement Surface to layout an Stereotomic (3D) view of an rafters in a 2D space/plane.

Traditional Layout Using the Rabattement Surface

There are a few French and German books showing and explaining how to draw out the Stereotomic view of the rafter, but nothing in English. This article is an attempt to explain the Rabattement Surface used in Traditional Layout in English.

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