To meet the difficulty that one unaided picture does not suffice to reconstruct the space object, the engineer commonly avails himself of two or more pictures, plan, elevation, profile, which he places side by side. To discuss the mutual relations of these and to solve problems in space by means of constructions on these plane figures is the object of technical descriptive geometry as usually treated in the text books. This is really only a branch of descriptive geometry, which, broadly defined, includes every attempt to represent a space figure by a plane figure in which straight lines are represented by straight lines. We are here interested not in the method of the engineer but in another branch of descriptive geometry called axonometry. We can make out with one picture if we'll put into it something familiar, something that wo shall agree represents a cube; or, what amounts to the same thing, if we'll introduce axes into the figure. We make use, then, of the frame-work of solid analytic geometry or coordinate geometry of space. Without presupposing any knowledge of this branch of mathematics, it is a simple matter to explain the fundamental notions on which it rests, as far as they are needed for our purpose.