Craft, Trades & Making · Metalwork & Fabrication
A topic within Metalwork & Fabrication, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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W. J. E. Crane
Reduces sheet-metal fabrication to geometrical pattern development, arguing that any shape in tin, zinc or copper can be flattened into a cutting pattern by consistent projection.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Evan A. Atkins
Teaches sheet-metal pattern development as descriptive geometry rather than memorised templates, so a worker can lay out any new shape rather than recall a stock pattern.
link checked 17 Sept 2026