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Technical Drawings Overview Guide

This document provides guidelines for creating technical drawings according to Australian standards, including sheet sizes and borders, title blocks, scales, views, line types, text guidelines, dimensioning, and examples. Key points covered include orthographic and axonometric views, exploded views, recommended text heights, scale guidelines, and references for additional standards.

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Technical Drawings Overview Guide

This document provides guidelines for creating technical drawings according to Australian standards, including sheet sizes and borders, title blocks, scales, views, line types, text guidelines, dimensioning, and examples. Key points covered include orthographic and axonometric views, exploded views, recommended text heights, scale guidelines, and references for additional standards.

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  • Introduction
  • Sheet Sizes
  • Sheet Borders
  • Sheet Title Blocks
  • Example Drawing Sheet
  • Orthographic Views
  • Axonometric Views
  • Exploded Views
  • Line Types - General
  • Scales - General
  • Dimensioning Mechanical Standard (Industrial Design)
  • Example Industrial Design Drawings
  • References

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS

Introduction
For the purpose of documenting and communicating your design ideas so
that someone else can interpret and make/build/ manufacture your
design, to your exact specifications, without ambiguity.
Australian Standards: AS1100

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Sheet sizes.

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Sheet borders.

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Sheet title blocks.

Scales

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EXAMPLE DRAWING SHEET

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Orthographic Views.

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Axonometric Views

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Exploded Views

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Line Types- General.

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0.5 = 2B pencil
0.35= B pencil
0.25= HB pencil 12
Text

Recommended Text Height

Character height in mm

Text use Sheet Size

A0 A1, A2, A3 A4

Titles & Drawing Numbers 7 (minimum) 5 5

Sub-titles, headings, view 5 (minimum) 5 3.5 - 5


names, and section
descriptions, etc.

General notes, material 3.5 (minimum) 3.5 2.5 - 3.5


lists, dimensions, etc.

Text thickness.
10mm text height = 1mm text thickness

7mm text height = 0.7mm text thickness

5mm text height = 0.5mm text thickness

3.5mm text height = 0.35mm text thickness

2.5mm text height = 0.25m text thickness

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Scales- general

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Dimensioning Mechanical Standard (Industrial Design)

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Example Industrial Design Drawings

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REFERENCES
AS1100.101-1992 (Standards Australia: Technical Drawings-General principles)

AS1100.201-1992 (Standards Australia:-Mechanical Engineering Drawings)

AS1100.301-2008 (Standards Australia: Architectural Drawings)

AS/NZS1100.501-2002 (Standards Australia: Technical Drawings- Structural


Engineering Drawings)

AS1100.401-1984 (Standards Australia: Engineering survey and engineering design


drawings)

Williams R.A. (1993). Engineering Drawing Handbook. Standards Australia.

Boundy A.W (2002). Engineering Drawing (4TH ed). McGraw. Hill Australia.

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1 TECHNICAL DRAWINGS Introduction For the purpose of documenting and communicating your design ideas so that someon
2 Sheet sizes.
3 Sheet borders.
4 Sheet title blocks. Scales
5 EXAMPLE DRAWING SHEET
6 Orthographic Views.
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9 Axonometric Views
10 Exploded Views

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