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G'day. I'm Barrie, your Supervisor here at Total Fabrication Workshop. We specialise in General and Heavy Fabrication Engineering.

Parallel line development is a geometric tool for constructing cylindrical shapes and pipe work. We will explain how we use two views to construct the cylindrical shape by using a series of parallel lines. It's not hard to follow, it just takes a little practice.

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In this task, you will learn how to construct shapes using parallel lines.

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