Sections and views naming

[pdiletti]

Hi everybody.
According to ASME standard
1 - the section names must be different from I, O, S ,...
Is it a same rule also for Auxiliary Views or detailed views ?
2 - In the same drawing is it possible to have one section , one auxiliary view and a detailed view
with the same name (e.g. A ) for all of them?
Thanks a lot

Pierluigi

 

[BUGGAR]

I've seen it both ways and people get confused either way.

 

[ctopher]

Make them all different. No sense in confusing those that read it.
There are more people these days that don't know how to read drawings anyway.

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[KENAT]

1)

...View letters should be used in alphabetical order excluding I, O, Q, S, X and Z...

2) NO. Elsewhere in the same section it implies you can't use the same letter for sections, details, Auxiliary views ... on the same drawing as all are considered removed views. But I don't fancy typing the full section.

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[pdiletti]

Thank you everybody.
Very useful replies.
Pier

 

[looslib]

One company I worked for went A, B, and so forth for auxiliary views and went Z, Y, etc. for sections.


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[KENAT]

looslib, that's how we used to do it at my former employer in the UK - or at least first section was usually 'X-X' then we used Y, W, V... (No Z though, what that was doing on your drawings I've no idea;-)).

However, taken in context that excerpt I gave from Y14.3 implies you start at A and work your way through just skipping a few letters.

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[JNieman]

@looslib that sounds handy if you never meet in the middle.

 

[dgallup]

This is not in any standard I've ever seen, but I don't like to reuse ANY letters including datums, I think it's just easier to quickly scan. So datums use A, B, C etc. and sections use W, X, Y etc. and details use the J, K, L etc. Obviously a hugely complex drawing might have to duplicate but I've never had that problem.

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