Construction
A free body diagram, an FBD, is not meant to be a scaled drawing. Rather it is a working sketch open to modification as one works through the problem and typically one needs to have seen through the problem before one arrives at a satisfactory diagram. There is an element of art, an inherent flexibility in the whole process. There is no hard and fast algorithm. The iconography of a free body diagram - not only how it is drawn but also how it is interpreted - depends crucially on how a body is modelled.
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