Blueprint Reading
Interactive CD-ROM Training


Format: VHS Video, Instructor and Participant Print Materials
Approximate Completion Time: 8-10 Hours
Item - E46CD                                                                                          Price: $2,975.00

 

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Blueprint reading is a self-paced computer-based training program that develops workers' abilities to visualize a part from a print and to locate and accurately read dimensions and tolerances—skills that are essential to the success of any quality improvement or scrap reduction efforts.


Target Audience

  • Production and inspection personnel
  • Supervisors, group leaders
  • Set-up personnel
  • Others who need or wish to read engineering drawings

Topics

  • The standard format of an engineering drawing
  • How to visualize a part from principal views, auxiliary views, partial views, enlarged views and sectional views
  • How to work with dimensions, tolerances and other part feature specifications
  • How common part features are represented and specified

Program Details

Unit 1: Introduction to Engineering Drawings

  • Purpose of engineering drawings
  • The role of ANSI standards
  • Detail and assembly drawings
  • Drawing sheet format - title block, revision block, parts list
  • Drawing scale
  • Visible and hidden lines
  • Introduction to dimensions and tolerances

Unit 2: Multiview Drawings

  • Orthographic projection
  • Visualizing a part from principal views
  • Auxiliary views
  • Partial views
  • Enlarged views
  • Centerlines, break lines
  • Drafting conventions

Unit 3: Sectional Views

  • Visualizing a sectional view - cutting plane, cutting plane line
  • Section line patterns and conventions
  • Full section
  • Half section
  • Offset section
  • Aligned section
  • Broken-out section
  • Auxiliary section
  • Revolved section
  • Removed section
  • Drafting conventions

Unit 4: Dimensions and Tolerances, Part 1

  • Definitions
  • Dimension lines, extension lines, leaders, notes
  • Units of measure
  • Fractions vs. decimals
  • Dual dimensioning
  • Not-to-scale dimensions
  • Reference dimensions
  • Dimensioning angles, arcs and chords
  • Specified dimension
  • Limit dimensioning
  • Plus-and-minus tolerancing
  • How to calculate a tolerance

Unit 5: Dimensions and Tolerances,
Part 2

  • Chain dimensioning
  • Baseline dimensioning
  • Direct dimensioning
  • Maximum material condition
  • Least material condition
  • Classes of fit
  • Overview of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
  • Surface finish specifications

Unit 6: Part Feature Specifications
How the most common part features are represented and dimensioned, including:

  • Hole
  • Slot
  • Counterbore
  • Countersink
  • Counterdrill
  • Spotface
  • Chamfer
  • Knurl
  • Keyseat
  • Fillets and rounds
  • Screw threads

What's Included

  • 6 CR-ROM's
  • 1 Administrator's Start-Up Guide
  • 1 Student Handbook
  • 1 Job Aid
  • 1 Album

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