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Happy Friday,
This is more of an academic discussion starter thana problem. We are looking at updating our engineering formats and the question of whether to eliminate the SCALE field came up. Given the approaching model-onlystate of ASME Y14.41-2003, is the information necessary to have in a drawing?
Have at it.
Thanks,
WindchillAdministrator
This has been a great discussion & I can’t resist joining in. OK... so those that have complete 3D capability from art to part might not need to scale documents. The rest of us still need drawings & why would we not require scale on them?
As to Engineers not getting drafting training… did they ever? Kidding! I know at one time it was part of the training. My first employer was an old school engineer & was also a talented draftsman. He told me he that he practiced is lettering 15 mins every single day when he was in school. Since then, as a mechanical designer for 20 years, I’ve yet to meet an engineer that has had much in the way of drafting training. The only exception being designers that went on to get an engineering degree.
Now days HR departments insist that these positions be filled by “mechanical engineers”, as in BSMEs. This makes backfilling positions difficult when we don’t get a single candidate that has any training or experience in actual design or drafting. Once we got lucky to get a person with two associate degrees (mechanical design & tooling design) that our HR moron claimed had the equivalent of a bachelors. Then somehow I have to convince these engineers to follow drafting standards & use our data management system. They commonly like to make some folders & handle the data management themselves with bad results every single time. Having to train them in Windchill Intralink 10.1 is no bargain either. Currently it’s an ongoing battle but one that, so far, I’ve been able to win. Quality drawings = quality products.
Regards,
Joe S.