Book on preparing drawings? 4

[Lion06]

I would love to get my hands on a book that deals with developing a set of drawings. I feel like I'm ahead of my peers on the technical end of the job, but only on par (possibly lagging a little) on the drawing side.

I feel like at least part of the reason is that this seems to be fairly subjective. When I work with one engineer they like to see things a certain way. If I try following that with another engineer, they'll typically want it done differently. I don't feel like I have a good handle on how it SHOULD be done.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[HgTX]

For steel bridges:

http://www.steelbridges.org/collaboration_pages/AASHTO Docs/G1 2.pdf

If you get a weird password message (I hope they fix that soon), look for AASHTO Publication Code NSBADDPG-1

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[miecz]

Milo Ketchum wrote "Handbook of Standard Structural Details for Buildings, published by Prentice-Hall. Copyright 1956, so it's old. Lots of good advice though. Examples of Small House, Small Masonry Building, Reinforced Concrete Building, Steel Frame Building, Industrial Building, and Timber Building.

 

[BaronENG]

I'm doing alot of drafting CADD work while getting my engineering degree. Understanding what is needed is a huge part of making a drawing set. I am lucky enought to be somewhere with a voluminous collection of previous drawings on major civil projects going back over 60 years.

The first thing I recommend is looking at drawing done with your firm and seeing what is conveyed. It is very easy to put too much information on a drawing. When that happens no information ends up getting conveyed.

Put together a drawing standards template if your firm doesn't have one already. In it you can have default samples of linestyles and font sizings and layers. This helps a ton.

The only other great advice I got from a mentor in drafting was "Say it once. Say it right. Reference it." This way you are sure you will never have internal inconsistamcies in your drawing set.

 

[haynewp]

The details and sections will mostly just take practice. Here is a document that is supposed to be really good regarding how much to show that may help:

http://store.acec.org/merchant.mvc?...duct_Code=10417&Product_Count=&Category_Code=

 

[graybeach]

Some good advice here. I particularly agree with ash060 about consistency. Thinking hard about the set up of your drawings at the very beginning of the project not only results in a better set of drawings, but it saves a lot of time. One thing I always do is wait until the very end of the project, when I really know where everything is, to add references to other drawings.

 

[jike]

Also, check out the following:

ACI 315 Detailing Manual (this has engineering drawings as well as shop drawings)
AISC Detailing Manual

The only ones I remember seeing are the older versions but nevertheless still applicable.