Re: NO MORE DRAWINGS

We are doing Reduced Dimension Drawings, this is kind of the best of
both worlds. We have a document for our travelers, ISO 9000, etc; but
we do not spend hours creating complete details.

I have some posts about this on my blog (mid to end of the page):

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse/perspectives_from_engineering/index.html

You may also want to look at ASME Y14.41-2003

Good luck in your quest. You may not totally get rid of drawings but
you can greatly reduce the amount of time spent in engineering
completely detailing a part that the guys are going to us the math
data directly anyway. It is a big time saver for us.

Cheers,

Anna Wood




On Sep 28, 11:14 am, thestew <stewhapp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our buisness is kind of unique. We build large utitlity structures. We
are trying to eliminate the layout drawings, we are already in the
process of eliminating the smaller part drawings that are cut by CNC,
but let me ask you, what do the parts getted checked against if there
are no drawings? Basicly our shop using the layout drawings to layout
parts on the structure and weld them in place. We know we probably
won't eliminate the drawings totally but I feel that we can give tham
a model and maybe a very generic drawing with it. The problem is we
are spended 60 to 70% of our time doing drawings because they are so
detailed. If we could eliminate that our out put to the shop would gp
through the roof. Thanks for the reply and again I appreciate all the
input I get from yall.

Stew


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