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A drawing of the object in scale.
Creating a BBS from the Structural drawing is not at all a good practice. A BBS preparation without preparing the placing drawing will create lot of issues in fabrication, placing and steel saving.
One of the customers of a material engineer is an electrical engineer. To understand the customer and what he wants, a good material engineer needs to learn the basics of how to communicate with the customer. Engineers communicate through drawings so that means a material engineer needs to learn how to read/create electrical drawings.
Any engineering object/task/product can be best demonstrated by drawing. Being general, not only engineering products, drawing helps understanding everything in science. However, drawing is used a lot in engineering specially, mechanical, cibvil, manufacturing, design etc branches. An engineer must be smart in drawing (understanding drawing & prepare drawing) to have sound reach in the material. Drawing is one of the languages of engineering. The other is mathematics.
The simplest answer is that working to a standard means that anyone can read the drawing. If there is no standard the symbols used on the drawing (weld type and size, surface finish, even the dimensioning of the components) would vary from one drawing (or draughtsperson) to another and cause confusion. Engineering drawings use a large number of symbols to denote operations and instructions (which reduces the time taken to draw them and the size of "paper" they're drawn on). Imagine the potential problems if one person used a symbol to mean "weld" and another one used the same (or similar) symbol to mean "do not weld".
A drawing of the object in scale.
Standards in all areas keep changing so they are not completely standard.
I don't use engineering drawings.... I guess?!
Drawing is the language of Engineers. Any thing related engineering and technology are documented mainly through drawing only. The study about engineering drawings, its application and method of documentation is known as engineering graphics.
orthgraphic and assembly and component or detail drawing
The role of an engineering drawing office is to create detailed working drawings that will be presented for the project. These engineers may also able to interpret their works.
Different types of basic drawing conventions include orthographic projection, isometric projection, and perspective drawing. These methods help depict objects accurately in technical drawings, making it easier to understand their dimensions and structures. Each type serves a specific purpose; for instance, orthographic projection is commonly used for engineering drawings, while perspective drawing is more common in artistic illustrations. Having different types of drawings allows us to convey information effectively to different audiences, whether they are engineers, architects, artists, or hobbyists.
George F. Bush has written: 'Reading engineering drawings' -- subject(s): Drawings, Machinery, Mechanical drawing
here are few reference books for engineering drawing.....Basant Agrawal and C M Agrawal (2008). Engineering Drawing. Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi. [1]Paige Davis, Karen Renee Juneau (2000). Engineering DrawingDavid A. Madsen, Karen Schertz, (2001) Engineering Drawing & Design‎. Delmar Thomson Learning.[2]Cecil Howard Jensen, Jay D. Helsel, Donald D. Voisinet Computer-aided engineering drawing using AutoCAD.Warren Jacob Luzadder (1959). Fundamentals of engineering drawing for technical students and professional.M.A. Parker, F. Pickup (1990) Engineering Drawing with Worked Examples‎.Colin H. Simmons, Dennis E. Maguire Manual of engineering drawing. Elsevier.Cecil Howard Jensen (2001). Interpreting Engineering Drawings‎.
A pictorial and schematic drawing show all of the components of a specific system and the wiring between these components. These drawings can be used for assembly or for trouble shooting and repair.
An exploded view may be what you are looking for. These differ from engineering drawings in that they seldom have dimensions, materials etc.
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