I know someone here knows exactly the book i'm searching for! In work life i run a cabinet/custom shop and churn out plenty of architectural shop drawings for architects and shop use. Over the years i've taught myself the standards and how to make decent plans. Every now and then (like right now) i have a project involving a fair amount of steel fabrication, which i sub out to someone who knows what they are doing. But.... i do have to provide the plans. I would like to learn the drafting standards for steel so when the steel fabricator gets my plans there is no confusion and everything looks proffessional. Thus far i have picked up a little bit here from seeing other steel plans, but there must be a good reference BOOK that i can physically flip though when using CAD to make the plans better and more typical. It would be a big time saver to not teach myself another notation system. For CAD i use sketcup, so all my symbols are created manually, and archived for future use, which can be a pain but is the system i have. Steel drawings and machinist drawings seem to be pretty similar in their notation, and i plan on making plans for my machining projects as i tackle them too, so a single reference would be prefered, but separate is fine.
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Drawing standards reference for steel/machining
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This is the book I use, I bought it on www.abebooks.com for a few bucks. You can usually find a variety of versions at various price levels.
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This should cover most of what you need for drawing standards.
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It’s been very helpful for me, it should have everything you would need.