Wire Diagram

[ziemerd]

I am use to doing mechanical drawings but now my employer would like for me to draw wire diagrams. He showed me a drawing that had in the notes that it was drawn to the specification of ANSI Y14.5M. He told me that he wants me to do the wire diagrams using these specs.

Does anyone know what this ANSI Y14.5M is and how I can learn more about it? Does AutoCAD have anything along these lines?

Thanks for the help.

[aledtaylor]

ANSI stands for American National Standards Institution.

You need to contact your document control department or your quality department to obtain a copy of specification you require.

It's a quality failure to claim to work to a standard or specification that you do not have a controlled copy of.

Good luck

[ziemerd]

We're not necessarily interested in claiming to use the standard but we want to follow the standard so our drawings are easier to read. We just like the way it's organized.

Unfortunately we don't have a document control department nor do we have a quality department. We're a very small company and if anyone would have information about drawing standards it would be me. I'm the only one who uses AutoCAD here and I'm being asked to create the standards for the company.

So let me change my question a little bit. I'm a mechanical person seeking help in drawing wire diagrams that are easy to read. We have drawings drawn to the ANSI standard and they are laid out the way we would like. I just don't know what rules they used to make the drawings the way they did.

Thanks again for the help.

[ReMark]

Dimensioning & Tolerancing ASME Y14.5M-1994
Publish date: October 1995
Published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Cost: $125 - $152 (US)

Available at: www.maintenanceresources.com

"THIS STANDARD ESTABLISHES UNIFORM PRACTICES FOR STATING AND INTERPRETING DIMENSIONING, TOLERANCING, AND RELATED REQUIREMENTS FOR USE ON ENGINEERING DRAWINGS AND IN RELATED DOCUMENTS. FOR A MATHEMATICAL EXPLANATION OF MANY OF THE PRINCIPLES IN THIS STANDARD, SEE ASME Y14.5.1M. PRACTICES UNIQUE TO ARCHITECTURAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING, LAND, WELDING SYMBOLOGY ARE NOT INCLUDED."

[ziemerd]

Thank you very much for the information. I'll look it over.

Does anyone know anything about Multisim? http://www.electronicsworkbench.com/ms8/ It's made by a company called Electronics Workbench.