Madrid PAU Technical Drawing Applied to Arts and Design II study guide
Madrid PAU Technical Drawing Applied to Arts and Design II · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Dibujo Técnico Aplicado a las Artes y al Diseño II is the second-year technical drawing subject in the Madrid Bachillerato arts pathway, and its PAU/EVAU exam is the one candidates sit when they need this subject in their university access phase. It is aimed at students heading toward design, architecture-related foundations, illustration, scenography or product development, and at anyone who wants a drawing-based subject to raise or secure their access mark. The Madrid PAU Technical Drawing Applied to Arts and Design II study guide has 8 sections and about 3,542 words.
01Plane geometry and geometric constructions applied to design
This domain opens the Madrid PAU paper with a construction exercise: a proportion, a regular polygon, an oval or a graphic scale. The exam tests compass-and-straightedge reasoning, so the mark depends on visible construction lines (arcs left in place, labelled points, clean intersections) and not on a figure measured with the ruler.
443 words, about 2 min02Geometric transformations: homothety, similarity, inversion and their applications
This domain asks you to produce transformed figures and to justify the transformation (centre, ratio, power). The exam expects the construction, the ratio or power written next to the figure, and an understanding of what the transformation preserves: angles and parallelism in homothety and similarity, angles (but not orientation of the plane) in inversion.
463 words, about 2 min03Tangencies and technical curves (conics and their applications)
Tangency problems (line–circle, circle–circle, and the Apolonio cases) plus conic construction and tangents form a block of the Madrid paper. Every tangency answer must show the tangency point, because the point is what proves the contact: it lies on the line of centres or on the perpendicular from the centre to the line.
450 words, about 2 min04Descriptive geometry: point, line and plane; intersections and distances
Dihedral system (sistema diédrico) questions in the PAU ask for intersections, true magnitudes, angles and distances. The reference planes are the vertical plane (PV) and the horizontal plane (PH), meeting at the línea de tierra (LT).
440 words, about 2 min05Polyhedra and surfaces; representation of volumes
Volume questions test whether you can place a solid in space from one datum (an edge, a face in a plane, a diagonal) and obtain its projections, its section by a plane, and sometimes its development. Euler's relation, C + V = A + 2, is the quick check on any polyhedron you draw.
403 words, about 2 min06Orthographic projection, dimensioning and standardization
This domain covers the standardized language of the technical sheet: European orthographic views, dimensioning per UNE-EN ISO 129-1, sheet formats, scales, tolerances and surface finish. The exam usually gives a piece and asks for the missing view, the section, or the correct dimensioning of a badly dimensioned drawing.
431 words, about 2 min07Axonometric and perspective representation for design
Axonometric and conical representation questions check that you can build a believable three-dimensional image with the correct axes, reduction coefficients and vanishing geometry. In the PAU the most frequent items are an isometric view of a piece with cylindrical holes, a caballera projection, and a conical perspective of a simple volume.
475 words, about 2 min08Graphic communication, sketching and design project representation
The final block asks for freehand drawing and for the graphic organization of a design proposal: a croquis acotado, a sketch of an object, or the set of views and perspectives that communicate a project. What is assessed is proportion, line hierarchy, correct standardization and whether the drawing communicates without the author present.
437 words, about 2 min