Often times in Sketches and Drawings, it is more important to specify the distance to the outside of an arc or circle then the center.
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Another Tuesday is upon us and it’s time for another batch of fresh hot ASME goodness straight out of the oven. Today we are digging ever deeper into everyone’s favorite ASME Y14.5M-1994. Last week we finished on the Applications of Dimensions so this week will will begin digging into how to dimension features. As many [...]

Last week for Standards Tuesday I introduced you to the application of dimensions per Section 1.7 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. If you missed it I highly recommend you go back and read it, Standards Tuesday – Application of Dimensions, since it covers such important topics such as Dimension Lines, Extension lines and spacing of dimensions. Today [...]

Today my kiddies, we begin covering the application of dimensions as described in Section 1.7 of ASME Y14.5M-1994. There is a lot of information to cover so I will break it up over 2 weeks. Like I said before ASME standards are easy to handle in small doses. So pinch your nose and hold your [...]

Over the past few weeks I have written about the different ASME standards that impact areas of your drawing including the Drawing Title, General Notes & BOMs.  All of these pale in comparison to ASME Y14.5M-1994, Dimensioning and Tolerancing. I live by this standard; it has been both good to me and the bane of [...]

When you are working on designs, there are times when it is necessary to link dimensions. Linking dimensions associates a word or word phrase to a number value that other dimensions in a model can then reference. This is an especially handy tool when you are dealing with complex models that have multiple features that [...]