Fabrication drawings guide fabricators and shop floor engineers during machining. Compromising accuracy on drawings means compromising accuracy in fabrication. We bring you 4 tips to ensure accuracy in drawings to stay on course with project cost and deadlines.
Designers and manufacturers often get carried away by the idea of getting the right product design the first time. But in reality, it involves a lot of revisions. And even after that, transferring designs into fabrication drawings involves an arduously iterative process to meet shop floor needs.
There are unavoidable conditions on shop floor such as machine tool tolerances, inherent allowances of manufacturing processes and so much more. These factors demand clear specification of allowances and geometrical dimensions in fabrication drawings to keep errors at bay and save cost and time.
The rule is simple: the higher the accuracy in drawings, the lower is the error-frequency during fabrication.