Dogleg???

[Rupert9819]

I am a student and their has been a debate going on between some of the professors for about a week or so. They actually started a poll in the school. The debate started about last week when I was told to open an old electrical drawing to show the dog legs. This teacher wanted to use my drawing as a reference. This is where the debate started. My teacher when I took electrical drafting told me that a dogleg is up over up, while another teacher has said that it is just up and over. The whole CAD department is about split between 10 teachers and is about 5 for each side. My question to all of you is what is a dogleg? Which way is correct?

[G-Prime]

I believe that it is Up and Over, but I could be wrong, your best bet is to google it and see what it says, remeber if it does not google, it does not exist!

[G-Prime]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogleg_%28stairs%29

[Strix]

common sense says it's up over up - as that's how a dog leg actually goes, but why the heck does it matter? it's a schematic isn't it? the dogleg isn't going to be installed anywhere. It's just theoretical :huh:

edit: up and over is only a bend or corner!

[Rupert9819]

HAHA see guys this is how it all started. A actual dog leg is up over up but what about in golf? A dog leg is up and over, "a dog leg to the right". I just want to find out who is right.

[Alan Cullen]

Isn't that a slice? Or is it a hook?

[Strix]

let me see... a bunch of blokes who spend time wandering about in a field whacking a minute ball with a wonky stick, usually on work time (slackers), wearing the kind of outfit you'd be laughed off the planet for anywhere else...

still - those are exactly the kind of people who are likely to be composing the Oxford English Dictionary which seems to think that a dog leg is a sharp bend :?