Dimensions

Dimensioning a drawing means adding dimensions, notes and lines to a drawing.

Architectural, Engineering and Design drawings must be able to tell you everything you need to manufacture a component or assemble several components together.

Basic Types of Dimension Used in Engineering Drawings.

You have to know: (pay attention to Glossary)

• Basic rules of dimensioning.

• Types of lines. (projection/extension, dimension and leader lines).
• Types of dimensioning a drawing (parallel, running, chain, and combined).

• Dimensioning circles.
• How to dimension a radius. (Interactive activity).
• Notes.
• Review dimensioning. What not to do.

• Dimension exercises. Just copy the views of 4 objects with its main dimmensions on the grid template.