Is that a good drawing?

[Ivan Silva]

Friends, if you were my contractor would you like this drawing? What do you think about this drawing? Is it concise? Is it clean drawing? It's a square tube welded structure and I confess I didn't put any welding symbol because it would have so much dimension, symbols, lines and bla bla bla. Don't be merciful with me! I would like to improve my drawing skill in order to be standout professional!

 

[gtaw]

It looks like they just want you to provide them with a bunch of loose parts. There is only one weld symbol for welding the nuts to the end plates.

Best regards - Al

 

[SwinnyGG]

if you were my contractor would you like this drawing

No.

Too cluttered.

Too many views on each sheet.

No weld symbols. Are you ordering a box of parts?

 

[Ivan Silva]

There is only one weld symbol for welding

Thank you for you reply. Actually the company is used to weld similar structures. All the weld beads are the same (Same thickness and all around the tube). I've just put the welding symbol on the nut because they are not used to weld the nut.

 

[Ivan Silva]

Thank you for your reply, SwinnyGG.

In regards to the many views in each sheet this surprised me. Actually I could not imagine myself trying to read an drawing with lacking of some view... Maybe I could move the section viewS to another sheet but it would not make the reading more difficult? Would you think it's a cluttered drawing when seeing it from a A1 paper and not a PDF?

 

[SwinnyGG]

Would you think it's a cluttered drawing when seeing it from a A1 paper and not a PDF

I'm never going to see your drawings in A1 - and it's unlikely that anyone else is either.

The guy at the fab shop who actually builds this for you is going to be lucky if it's printed for him on 11x17; you need to keep your target audience in mind. That means the largest base sheet size you should ever use for a part like this is A3. A4 would likely be even better for your fabricator.

Your first drawing sheet has 15 (!) views on it. 15!

As a result, your views are crammed together and difficult to read. Dimension lines crowd part edges. Details are difficult to interpret. Detail views cannot be made large enough to be useful.

A1 sheets are for large parts - not for packing a dozen or more views of a small part onto one sheet. Unless you're designing buildings or ships, you should not be using A1 sheets as your base size.

 

[btrueblood]

Tolerances for the dimensions appear to be missing.

 

[enginesrus]

Its one of those, "Its better than no print" deals. I hope its on a 3 foot by 5 foot sheet of paper or larger and to scale, maybe use a PCM. I agree with others here its pretty jammed up.

 

[looslib]

One thing I notices is that the drawing has 2 BOM tables, both have the same locator number. This is not allowed per ASME Y14 standards.

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