Hi everyone,

Does anyone know about of some recent changes of drawing standards?
New specifications, "amendments", regulations, etc.? For mechanical drawings.
I am interested for metric ISO standard.

In other words: which is the latest/the best manual on the marketplace (the..."best in town" )
Which book(s) do you recommend? I found a lot on Amazon, etc.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Second, I am interested about DIN standard documentation (but written in english, not german, if exist).

Thanks,
Adrian Stratulat
Mechanical engineer
Autodesk Inventor Certified Professional

 

Adrian, the American drawing standards (dimensioning and tolerancing, known as GD&T) is ASME Y-14.5 (formerly ANSI Y-14.5). The metric version is ASME Y-14.5M. The standards are clear enough, but require some reading "between the lines" to really understand what is being put forth ... in other words it's better as a reference than as a "how to" manual. Any books referencing these standards and claiming to make them clear are likely to be helpful. Can't help you with DIN, but I've found that the biggest additional (but useful) thing with DIN is the use of fit tolerances between shafts and bores. If you want to contact me I'll send you what I have on those (a nice PDF or two).

 

Hi Mark,
I am also interested in knowing if there are any new changes made in the standards.. I will be glad if you could send me the pdf as well.. my id is [email protected]

Regards,
Himanshu Malhotra
http://in.linkedin.com/in/himanshumalhotra9