What’s on the Joining & Fixing poster
A 6-row table: Method · Good at · Poor at.
Grouped by how the joint carries its load.
- Screws and bolts — Demountable, strong — Thin material, end grain
- Rivets — Permanent shear — Tension, thick stacks
- Wood joinery — Large glue area — Speed; needs accuracy
- Adhesive — Spreading load — Peel and impact
- Welding, brazing — Full-strength metal — Thin sheet, mixed metals
- Interference fit — Clean appearance — Repeated assembly
Adhesives are strong in shear and weak in peel. Design the joint so the glue line is loaded across its face, not at an edge.
Questions about the Joining & Fixing poster
- What’s on the Joining & Fixing poster?
- A 6-row table: Method · Good at · Poor at. Grouped by how the joint carries its load. Screws and bolts — Demountable, strong — Thin material, end grain; Rivets — Permanent shear — Tension, thick stacks; Wood joinery — Large glue area — Speed; needs accuracy; Adhesive — Spreading load — Peel and impact; Welding, brazing — Full-strength metal — Thin sheet, mixed metals; Interference fit — Clean appearance — Repeated assembly. Adhesives are strong in shear and weak in peel. Design the joint so the glue line is loaded across its face, not at an edge.
- Who is the Joining & Fixing poster for?
- Joining & Fixing belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning form & 3d can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Joining & Fixing poster?
- Use it when working out how the parts of a made object hold together. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Joining & Fixing belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Joining & Fixing?
- Modelling & Carving, Armatures and Clay & Firing sit alongside Joining & Fixing in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Modelling & CarvingArmaturesClay & Firing
- Is the Joining & Fixing poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Joining & Fixing downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Joining & Fixing poster print at?
- Joining & Fixing is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Joining & Fixing loses nothing.Printing guide
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