Iso standards in autocad

When you create a drawing, AutoCAD Mechanical automatically assigns a drafting standard to the drawing. You can change the drafting standard easily. The drafting standard controls the following elements of the standard:. You can override any of the standard-dependent settings to meet your special requirements. The program saves overrides with the standard.

If you change to a different standard, the elements of the new standard become active. If you change standards in the middle of a drawing session, the drawing objects that exist in the drawing do not reflect the change.

Only new objects follow the newly selected standard. If you change back to the original standard, the settings that were in force previously become active again. When you override an element of a standard, AutoCAD Mechanical validates the overrides and sometimes, prevents you from creating settings that violate the standard.

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Technical product documentation — Digital product definition data practices. General requirements of three-dimensional modeling for mechanical products. ISO standards are internationally agreed by experts Think of them as a formula that describes the best way of doing something.

For instance, Quality management standards to help work more efficiently and reduce product failures. Environmental management standards to help reduce environmental impacts, reduce waste and be more sustainable. Health and safety standards to help reduce accidents in the workplace. Energy management standards to help cut energy consumption. Food safety standards to help prevent food from being contaminated. I've had many a discussion with my co-workers about drafting standards and things we've simply always or never seen done before.

Here's a wonderful example. One co worker uses solidworks for his drawings, doing everything in 3d modelling, and whenever he puts a dimension line on a borken object solidworks automatically puts a break line in the dimension.

I've never heard of doing this, and autocad certainly doesn't support this practice you have to explode your dimensions to do it - yech! Autocad has refernces to ISO or ANSI standards within the program, so I was wondering if anyone knew a place online where these 'standards' are listed? Message 2 of 4. Generally, dimension lines should never be broken. Yet, there are exceptions to everything.