Well thought out drawing systems help you create consistently professional engineering drawings.
Before you draw, you need a plan!
The most important part of a quality drawing system is laying out your procedures clearly.
- Start a procedures document with a step-by-step guide on how to create a drawing. Templates, naming structure, drawing standards etc should all be listed to avoid future confusion. This is an example of a drawing procedure index:
- Drawings should be laid out similarly so you can present professional drawing packs. This can be achieved with templates (discussed later) and sufficient detail in your procedures document.
- Everyone should be trained or made aware of the relevant drawing standard for your company and/or client. That way you can be sure that every engineer is creating drawings with the same symbols, dimensions, hole callouts, etc.
- Make sure your engineers and checkers are aware of the new procedures. They aren’t much good if nobody uses them!