bbankston Posted May 13, 2013 Author Posted May 13, 2013 Thanks, Organic. These drawings are meant for approval from our customers and then be sent directly to the shop floor for fabrication. I'm not entirely sure that they need to follow industry standards. Quote
rkent Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 Thanks, Organic. These drawings are meant for approval from our customers and then be sent directly to the shop floor for fabrication. I'm not entirely sure that they need to follow industry standards. But they should follow basic industry standards for the simple reason that customers, fabricators and drafters will change over time. The language should be a universal one that no one has to learn to look at a set of drawings. Your customers may or may not know drafting standards but those that do will not be too impressed with drawings that stray that far from standards. Impressions are extremely important. Open any drafting text, turn to the dimensioning section, that is how your drawings should look. Same for details, etc. Tell management to buy your imagineer a drafting text, used ones can be had for $5US. Quote
bbankston Posted May 13, 2013 Author Posted May 13, 2013 Maybe he believes that since this says "Standard" then he is dimensioning standard. Quote
foxbyrd31 Posted May 13, 2013 Posted May 13, 2013 If you are going to take your ideas for changes to the boss(es) I would clean a drawing up with all your ideas and suggestions, then present the two drawings side by side so they can see why your ways might make life easier for everybody. Quote
bbankston Posted August 29, 2013 Author Posted August 29, 2013 Negative, PotGuy. I'm a wearer of many hats over here and getting to that is on the back-burner for now. I also lost my assistant and am currently training/teaching his replacement. Quote
bbankston Posted August 29, 2013 Author Posted August 29, 2013 PotGuy, I forgot to mention that I did speak with the production manager of the Mexican facility (who bangs head with that Engineer frequently) and he agreed with all of my points on their production drawings. However, I did see very recent production drawings from the Mexican facility and they're still dimensioning using "hidden lines", hatches for detail views and most of the other things that I disagreed with. Quote
JD Mather Posted August 29, 2013 Posted August 29, 2013 Just came across this. Viewres = 100? that hasn't been the default for years? I use 2000. Quote
Tuns Posted September 13, 2013 Posted September 13, 2013 The dimensions on this are so... unreadable just going by the standards. If your boss is only interested in productivity, he should note that people will pay more for quality; hence, quality over quantity. Quote
PotGuy Posted October 9, 2013 Posted October 9, 2013 The dimensions on this are so... unreadable just going by the standards. If your boss is only interested in productivity, he should note that people will pay more for quality; hence, quality over quantity. Good shout. Was the right Dimscale selected...? Quote
PotGuy Posted October 9, 2013 Posted October 9, 2013 neophoible, There's no need to change previous drawings. I take there are many on this forum that dimension this way? Y'know, dimensioning in model space and then changing the dim scale to best fit in the viewport? That seems to be inefficient to me. Why not dimension everything in paperspace? That way you don't have to change each scale in the viewport. I don't see why dimensioning in MS is that big an issue. I do it. Quote
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