MET124 Basic Print Reading for Manufacturing

This course provides a guide for learning the interpretation of common manufacturing drawings, including dimensioning, linetypes, size and scale, fits and tolerances, projections and views. Topics include orthographic views, auxilliary and section views, visualization, determining dimension values from prints, reading dimensions from view to view and calculating dimension values. Fillets and rounds, holes, countersinks, counter bores and spotfaces are explained. Full, half, revolved and offset sections are described. Amercian National Standards are used and reinforced throughout the course. Title blocks and revision blocks are described. An introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing is presented, explaining the use of these symbols in manufacturing drawings.