Blueprint Reading Fundamentals
Course description
Participants will be able to:
- Visualize three dimensional parts from a two dimensional drawing
- Read lines, symbols, dimensions, tolerances and supplemental information from the title block, list of materials, notes, and revisions
Preview the Blueprint Reading Fundamentals Course Introduction (pdf)
Suggested participants
- Designers
- Engineers
- Draftspersons
- Inspectors
- Machinists
- Welders
- Fabricators
- Assemblers
- Technicians
- Estimators
- Maintenance mechanics
- Purchasing agents
- Anyone who needs to read information from a drawing
Course outline
- Introduction
- Alphabet of Lines
- Multiview Drawings
- Sectional Views
- Threads and Fasteners
- Dimensioning
- Tolerancing
- Machining Specifications and Surface Texture
- Title Block
- List of Materials
- Drawing Notes
- Drawing Revision Systems