An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing that is used to convey information about an object.
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11 Facts About Engineering drawing
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Key information such as dimensions is usually only specified in one place on a Engineering drawing, avoiding redundancy and the possibility of inconsistency.
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The implication of this is that any Engineering drawing using ISO symbols can only be interpreted to ISO GPS rules.
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Since the advent of computer-aided design, engineering drawing has been done more and more in the electronic medium with each passing decade.
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Today most engineering drawing is done with CAD, but pencil and paper have not entirely disappeared.
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The English idiom "to go back to the drawing board", which is a figurative phrase meaning to rethink something altogether, was inspired by the literal act of discovering design errors during production and returning to a drawing board to revise the engineering drawing.
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When part definition is defined mathematically via a solid model, the assertion that one cannot interrogate the model—the direct analog of "scaling the Engineering drawing"—becomes ridiculous; because when part definition is defined this way, it is not possible for a Engineering drawing or model to be "not to scale".
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Title block is an area of the Engineering drawing that conveys header-type information about the Engineering drawing, such as:.
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General notes apply generally to the contents of the Engineering drawing, as opposed to applying only to certain part numbers or certain surfaces or features.
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An engineering drawing is a legal document, because it communicates all the needed information about "what is wanted" to the people who will expend resources turning the idea into a reality.
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Centuries, engineering drawing was the sole method of transferring information from design into manufacture.
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