best way of creating sheet formats

hi all,
I have been looking at my largely generic derived titleblocks,borders etc
and thinking its time to make them more appropriate and have a company
style- probably a total remake - any hints on the best/neatest/easiest/most
flexible way to do this? thanks

 

If you get any other answers at all (this being the first) you're going
to get walloped with variety. Everybody is going to have a favorite and
nobody will agree on any of 'em. I'm not even going to get into format,
but I WILL give you some advice on informational content. A large
number of title blocks I've seen gloss over or entirely ignore some
specifications that I think are often important and shouldn't always be
implicit:

1) A note indicating whether you use 3rd angle projection (as in the
USA) or 1st angle projection (as in most of Europe) is something you
should consider. That little standard truncated cone projection example
is very useful.
2) A reference to GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING PER ASME/ANSI
Y14.5 is also a good idea if you use GD&T symbology.
3) In addition to your standard default tolerances I recommend a note in
the title block similar to the following: "HOLE, C'BORE & SLOT DIAMETER
TOLERANCES TO BE:" (I specify a range of diameters with a specific
tolerance such as 0" to 3/8" +.003/-.001, 3/8" to 3/4" +.004/-.001,

4) I specify a different angular tolerance for bends than for cuts
(larger for bends)
5) I also specify dimensions to apply AFTER plating. Although that puts
a burden on a machine shop that they often won't welcome, you need any
particular part to FIT and you can't guarantee that if you leave it
open-ended on the plating side of things.
6) I specify a default tolerance on fractional values. If you design in
fractional equivalents you can utilize that default to open up
tolerances (when that's appropriate) without having to add a special
tolerance to a dimension. In fact, I often find it useful to design in
fractional equivalents for this very reason.
7) I do have a space for QTY, but since it's sometimes expedient to
specify the quantity per next assembly and sometimes good to specify
quantity to be ordered (which can easily be different), I have two
spaces labelled QTY NEXT ASSY and ORDER QTY.
8) Since sometimes I create configurations of parts or assemblies to be
documented on successive sheets of a drawing, I might assign a dash
number suffix to a drawing number to create a part number on each
sheet. For that reason, I have a little block all by itself in the
lower left corner of the title block which is for PART NUMBER THIS
SHEET.

Less than you asked for in most ways, and more than you asked for in
other ways, but I hope it helps regardless.

Best,
Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Charlotte, NC

 

Hi Sporky, I guess my post was rather open ended- you have got me thinking
about things - at the moment I don't really have enough info and it is a bit
disorganised. I will just have to sit down and nut out something to suit my
needs.
thanks for sharing your thoughts
neil

 

Neil,

The simplest way is to DXF in your old one's! If this is not possible,
I would be happy to email you my generic SW formats.

Rich.............

 

ok DXF I'll try that, I attempted to be clever with OLE an Excel table but
for some reason the links to properties I made got buried under it.
thanks for the offer I'll see how I go first with DXF.

 

Sporky, some brill ideas, thanks, credit where credits due.