Hi,
I recall hearing sometime ago that if stainless steel parts have been tumbled with alumina (aluminum oxide) media, that they are more difficult to weld, or have issues related to weld quality, as compared with parts tumbled with other media.
Yet when I tried today to find information...
You're doing the right thing to create an internal standard. Y14.5 can be used correctly by different designers for the same design in different ways. Just like in Solidworks, where you can build part models using different approaches and end up with the same shape. I think that it would be...