Engineering drawing abbreviations and

symbols
Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols are 3 Bibliography
used to communicate and detail the characteristics of
an engineering drawing. This list includes abbreviations
3.1 Sources cited
common to the vocabulary of people who work with engineering drawings in the manufacture and inspection of
ASME (1997), Y14.35M1997: Revision of engiparts and assemblies.
neering drawings and associated documents, ASME.
Technical standards exist to provide glossaries of abbre ASME (2007), Y14.382007: Abbreviations and
viations, acronyms, and symbols that may be found on
acronyms for use on drawings and related docuengineering drawings. Many corporations have such stanments, ASME.
dards, which dene some terms and symbols specic to
them; on the national and international level, ASME stan French, Thomas E.; Vierck, Charles J. et al. (1953),
dard Y14.38[1] is probably the most widely used.
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See also
List of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
symbols

References

[1] ASME 2007.

[2] Sheaer, M. K.; Thomas, G. R.; Dann, R. K.; Russell, E.
W. (May 1998), Engineering Drawings for 10 CFR Part
71 Package Approvals, pp. 1112, retrieved 2011-06-25.
[3] ASME Y1438-2007 page 102
[4] ANSI/ASME B1.20.1-1983 Section 6.1
[5] ASME 1997.
[6] Dimensioning and Tolerancing, ASME Y14.5-2009. NY:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2009. pp.
16, 17; paragraph 1.8.10. ISBN 0-7918-3192-2.
[7] Dimensioning and Tolerancing, ASME Y14.5-2009. NY:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2009. p.16;
paragraph 1.8.10. ISBN 0-7918-3192-2.

draftsmen (8th ed.), New York, New York, USA:

McGraw-Hill, LCCN 52013455. Throughout, but
especially pp. 689690, appendix list of abbreviations and symbols.

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