Drawing (manufacturing)
- This article is about the manufacturing technique. For the art form, see Drawing.
Drawing is a manufacturing process for producing a wire, bar or tube by pulling on a material until it increases in length. This is typically accompanied by a thinning out of the material, usually through a reduction in the girth.
This techniqued has long been used to produce flexible cables of metal by drawing the material through holes of decreasing size. More recently drawing has been used with molten glass to produce high quality optical fibers.