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Question: Why is a drawing room called so? We don't draw painting in this room then, we do call it drawing room? (Asked by Ayaz Ahmad Awan) Answer: In England (around the 17th century), after dinner, the men of the house used to assemble for wine and cigars or just linger on in the same room. The women would withdraw to a different room called the withdrawing room, for obvious reasons. The word ''drawing room is just a crude change of the original withdrawing room
The term plan may casually be used to refer to a single view, sheet, or drawing in a set of plans. More specifically a plan view is an orthographic projection looking down on the object, such as in a floor plan. The process of producing plans, and the skill of producing them, is often referred to as technical drawing. A working drawing is a type of technical drawing, which is part of the documentation needed to build an engineering product or architecture.