engineering Visualization and

Product-Realization (EV-PR)

Dr. Naveen Ganta

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
GITAM Bangalore Campus
Dimensioning
 Dimensioning
➢Every drawing, whether a scale drawing or a freehand drawing,
besides showing the true shape of an object, must supply its exact
length, breadth, height, sizes and positions of holes, grooves etc.
and such other details relating to the manufacturing of that object.

➢Providing this information on a drawing is called dimensioning.

➢Additional lines, figures, numbers, symbols, notes etc. are used

for this purpose.
 Types of Lines
• Outline or Principal Line: These are Outline Line
drawn to represent visible edges and
surface boundaries of objects. These are
continuous thick lines.
• Extension Line: It is a thin continuous line
drawn in extension of an outline.
• Dimension Line: It is a thin continuous
line. Terminated by arrow-heads touching
the extension lines or outlines. Dimension
Extension Line Line
Dimension Lines
 Types of Lines
• Section Line or Hatch lines: These are
drawn to make the section visible.. These
are continuous thin lines at angle of 45𝑜 .
• Leader Line: It is a thin continuous line
drawn to connect a note with the feature to
which it applies.
• Cutting Plane Line: It shows the location
of cutting plane. It is long, thin chain line
with thick at ends only.
• Center Line: These are thin long chain
lines used to represent axes of cylindrical,
spherical or conical objects Terminated by
arrow-heads touching the extension lines or
outlines.
 Dimensioning Systems
• Two types of dimensioning systems are
commonly used.
• Aligned System & Unidirectional
System
➢Aligned System:
❖Here, the dimension is denoted in a
such a way that it is aligned to the
dimension line.
❖The dimension is placed near the
middle portion and above of dimension
line.
 Dimensioning Systems
➢Unidirectional System:
❖The dimension is always denoted in
one direction such that one can read it
from the bottom side of drawing sheet.
❖The dimension line is broken near the
middle portion to include the
dimension value.
Some Examples of Dimensioning
Some Examples of Dimensioning
 Exercise-1
1. Draw an equilateral triangle with 50mm side length and represent
proper dimensioning system.

2. Draw a square with side length 50mm.

3. Draw a right angled triangle with two sides as 50mm.

Exercise-2
Exercise-3
 Regular Polygon
• A regular polygon is a polygon that is equiangular and equilateral.