Tech Drawing Best Practice

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Best Practice

  • Show dimensions in an organized way, and ideally corresponding to actual location from which a person would measure. This makes the tech drawing highly functional, as opposed to requiring a lot of parsing of information.
  • Show minimum required information to eliminate time spent on irrelevant information
  • Create user-specific tech drawings. Someone with experience will likely require less information.
  • Show additive dimensions (length of 132" when 89 and 43 were already measured) only if they are obviously useful for quality control.
  • Distinguish quality control measurements from functional measurements
  • Use fiducials in priority over actual dimensions, unless dimensions are required (for quality control or other purposes)
  • Include quality control information
  • Number your callouts to help in tracking of the callouts

Advanced

  • Number the measurements in the order they should be used.