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Junior Cycle Graphics: Drawing conventions & dimensions
How often Drawing conventions & dimensions comes up on the Graphics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker
Drawing conventions & dimensions, Common Level(6 marks)
Quick ones on Drawing conventions & dimensions.
(a)Which type of line is used to show hidden edges?
- Thin chain line
- Thin dashed line
- Thick continuous line
(b)What does Ø30 mean on a dimensioned drawing?
- An angle of 30°
- A radius of 30 mm
- A diameter of 30 mm
(c)Which type of line marks a centre line or an axis of symmetry?
- Thin chain line
- Thick continuous line
- Thin dashed line
Show the answers
(a) Thin dashed line
(b) A diameter of 30 mm
(c) Thin chain line
Common Level
Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q3e |
| 2025 | Q3f |
| 2024 | Q3e |
| 2023 | Q3d |
| 2022 | Q3e |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Graphics topics
- Angles, triangles & polygons
- Auxiliary views & true shape
- Dividing a line into equal parts
- Ellipse
- Freehand pictorial sketching
- Freehand sketching of views
- Orthographic projection
- Parabola
- Rendering & presentation
- Spatial reasoning & visualising
- Surface development
- Tangents & circles in contact
- True length & indexing
- Bisectors & centre of a circle
- Circle terms & properties
- Measurement, scales & area
- Perspective drawing
- Sections & truncated solids
- Similar figures & enlargement
- Axonometric projection
- Solids & their properties
- Transformations & symmetry
- Isometric & oblique drawing
- Solids of revolution