I feel bad that annotations, was autospelled to animations as that took this way ofcourse.
Also you cant have welding drawings with out annotations
I feel bad that annotations, was autospelled to animations as that took this way ofcourse.
Also you cant have welding drawings with out annotations
Let the dimensions, on standard views, specific section views, part sections, state what you want.This is fascinating, it really is. Thanks so much for this. I now see / understand the point ‘telling a story on a drawing’. I guess ‘less is more’ is the idea?
As I mentioned above, I got away for long time with a line in the "Notes" in the corner of the drawing . . . "fully welded construction" . . .I feel bad that annotations, was autospelled to animations as that took this way ofcourse.
Also you cant have welding drawings with out annotations
Engineer has to know what they are talking about - and I see a lot of drawings where they don't. Fillet sizes that are ridiculous for the thickness of material. Continuous welds when intermittant would be better, even if only from a point of view of less distortion.I would not be happy having steels welded by anyone if my engineer has not specified the weld requirements.
I would not leave it to most site welders to advice on.
As I mentioned above, I got away for long time with a line in the "Notes" in the corner of the drawing . . . "fully welded construction" . . .
Then we had a "proper" welder join us . . . he took one look, and said "What I am supposed to do, glue it?" . . .
I do still add notes to the effect that neat welds are acceptable un-ground - one of the guys at one of our suppliers used to work with me at another company - and he seemed to have a limitless supply of sanding discs - everything got a coarse disc run over it on a 9" grinder . . . made making a painted machine look good next to impossible.
But I also think a neat weld, left alone if it's not bothering anyone, looks so much better than one sort of ground back - and hopefully if the supplier doesn't have to spend time doing it, I get it cheaper/quicker.
Apologies, I meant a stop-start, not a gap between welds (a stop-start is a requirement of most awarding bodies)The isometric with the weld symbols posted above has several stop/start annotations - the "2x75(50)" - two welds, 75mm long, with a 50mm gap
I have pictures of the rest of the manual if you want themDont you use phase testing nowadays? this is one of the exercises from the EMFEC course left over from my teaching days which was derived from and equivalent to City and Guilds, this is a first year practical test for MMA welding complete with material thicknesses and weld details all in mm, I have pictures of the rest of the manual if you want them, did have all the books up to year five covering all the processes but unfortunately were lost in a house move some years ago
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