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In any drawing plate you need to always print information, so you will not be writing your information,
you will print them as separate letters, and they should have the same height, and they are all capital.
So, typically, on the exercise plates that you are going to work on some of these guidelines
that help you put the letters at the uniform height are there already.
Or if they are not there, you don't necessarily have to use the instruments,
you can just use anything that has a straight edge such as,
like a credit card or driver's license, and you can place it,
and the height of these letters are typically an eighth-of-an-inch,
which you can eyeball, and you draw these lines.
And draw them as light as possible
because the letters that you will print then will be done with more pressure on the pencil, so they will be darker,
and the contrast between the guide lines and the letters would be good.
So you don't want to draw these guide lines very dark.
And keep in mind that all the information on your drawing must be done the same way,
including your name and dates and all the other information that is printed on the plate.
Also, in terms of how you take the measurements from those exercises
and use the scales that are provided on the plates,
all you need to do is basically use the edge of a piece of paper
and place them where you are going to take our measurement.
So let's say you were going to take the measurement for B,
you put one edge of the paper on one end of the line and then you mark the other point,
and then take this to your scale and place it here,
and then go to the closest increment that represents that side.
So, in this case, this is a millimeter scale and this is five, six, seven, eight is close enough.
And then that was for measurement B, so on your measurement B you write eight millimeters.
So this is the way you are going to take your measurements without relying on instruments,
and just a piece of paper will be enough for you to do all these exercises.