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Engineering Drawing Abbreviations and Symbols

You may easily identify the abbreviation KG and CM, do you know the meaning of CYL and EQUI SP on a CNC design? These abbreviations used in engineering drawings along with symbols to specify the details and characteristics of the drawing instead of the full word, which terms are commonly used? Here we collected the standard engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols to provide help for users.To get more news about engineering drawing abbreviations, you can visit runsom.com official website.

Why Use Abbreviations and Symbols in Engineering Drawings
A good design drawing can indicate all the details needed to produce a mechanical CNC milling part in an easy way. Because there is no large space on a drawing to contain all the text to illustrate the image, abbreviations, and symbols are often used in engineering drawings to communicate the characteristics of the product to be manufactured. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols are concise and easy to understand for people from any country, also save space and make the drawing looks more pleasing to the eye.

Technical standards are made to define and provide glossaries of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that may be found on engineering drawings. There are different types of International Engineering Standards applied, including International (ISO), Australia (AS), France (AFNOR), Germany (DIN, WR), Italy (UNI), Japan (JIS), Korea (KS), Sweden (SS), UK (BS), USA (AISI, ANSI, ASTM, SAE, AMS). Please note that the same abbreviation may have different meanings in different categories.
In order to create drawings using Autodesk Advance Steel, user-defined or predefined drawing styles are used. The name of a drawing style consists of abbreviations. It is useful to know what the abbreviation means, in order to use the correct drawing style and to obtain the desired result.
All drawing styles are stored in the Drawing Style Manager, and the most frequently used can be found in the Quick Documents.

What do the abbreviations used in the drawing styles mean?

The drawing styles are displayed in two main categories: Advance (they cannot be modified) and User (they can be modified, deleted and new ones can be added).

What do the abbreviations used in the drawing styles mean?

Depending on the Autodesk Advance Steel installation language, the drawing styles are organized in specific categories. For example, on the English International version there are seven categories, of which three contain drawing styles for general arrangement (GA), one for single parts (Sp) and the other three for main parts (Mp).

A drawing style contains one or more views.

What do the abbreviations used in the drawing styles mean?

– The drawing styles used to create a general arrangement (GA) contain only one view, because they depend on the UCS orientation in the model or on the “camera” object which needs to be selected.
– The drawing styles used to create the single part drawings or the main part drawings contain one or more views, cut sections, endplate views and welding preparation sections. Also, the displayed views depend on the “Necessary View Wizard”.