Engineering Drawings Primer Course Description
This course is intended for the professional or manager seeking an awareness of dimensioning and tolerancing who does not need to further their knowledge with a more in-depth course. Designed to provide you with an understanding of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) fundamentals, this course focuses on the basic requirements of engineering drawings, numeric dimensions and tolerances and geometric dimensions and tolerances.
GD&T is the language used on engineering drawings to specify the amount of variation (from the perfect CAD model) that a manufactured part is allowed to have. Also known as the tolerances, this variation allowed has a profound impact on the manufacturing and quality inspection plan for any part. When a design engineer releases a drawing to be produced, the entire enterprise needs a common technical language for communicating exactly what must be produced. GD&T is used to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
Engineering Drawings Primer Course Outline:
- The Basics of Manufacturing Prints: What manufacturing prints are and what they are not; Who uses them and how; The manufacturing cycle and purpose of drawings; The basic requirements of technical drawings; Interpretation of drawings according to standards and representing contractual requirements
- Dimensions: What dimensions are and why they are important; Fundamental dimensioning and tolerancing rules; Symbols associated with dimensions; Linear, diametral, radial, and angular dimensions; Dimensioning of common features
- Numeric Tolerances: What tolerances are and why they are important; The ways numeric tolerances are indicated on prints; Determining tolerance values for numeric tolerances given implicitly, explicitly, symbolically, and by limit dimensioning; Calculating tolerance accumulations
- Geometric Tolerance Fundamentals: How geometric tolerances work; Thinking of parts as collections of features not dimensions; Features with size and surfaces; Maximum Material Condition and Least Material Condition; What bonus tolerance is and when it applies
- The Datum Reference Frame Concept: The purpose of a datum reference frame; Establishing datums from various datum features; What datum shift is and when it applies
- Interpretation of Geometric Controls: The geometric characteristic symbols used to impose geometric requirements
Students Will be Able to:
- Recognize the deficiencies of drawings produced without GD&T
- Learn how geometric tolerances supplement conventional tolerances to specify limits on allowable variation.
- Calculate minimum and maximum allowable values for dimensions considering numeric tolerances.
- Recognize the symbols used with the geometric system of tolerances.
- Recognize basic dimensions on prints and understand their meaning.
- Identify and properly read feature control frames.
- Recognize when bonus tolerance is available and calculate geometric tolerance values when bonus tolerance applies.
- Recognize datum feature identifiers applied to features with size and surfaces.
- Analyze the datum reference frame including order of precedence.
- Identify and read geometric controls on location, orientation, form, profile & runout.
Course Delivery Details
- Class Duration (live): 1 Day (8 Hours), 8:00am – 4:00pm (EST)
- Class Duration (online): 2x 3.5-hour sessions, 9:00am – 12:30pm (EST)
- Course instructor: Charles A Gillis – Senior Consultant, Design Engineering
- Prerequisites & Preparations: None
- Modes of Teaching and Learning: Lecture/discussion, Individual work sessions, Group work sessions, Large print review
- Textbook: Hammer’s Blueprint Reading Basics, 4th ed., by Charles Gillis, Industrial Press
- Workbook: Engineering Drawings Primer Workbook, QSG
- Who Should Attend: Engineering managers and supervisors, Mechanical design engineers & engineering technicians, Quality Control personnel, Machine shop and tool room supervisors, Supplier quality engineers
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