The following are tips on getting a decent grade on your drawings for your design assignments.

• The premise here is to make your drawings as neat and as readable as possible eliminating errors and ambiguity. 
• Remember, in the real world, mistakes and ambiguity cost time and money.
• In this class these mistakes will impact your grade.
• Always present your best work, fix your own mistakes!
• Double check your work before giving it to others. 
• Check it on screen first
• If any errors are found correct them before printing
• Check the printed copy second
• If any errors are found make the corrections then reprint.
• If I find mistakes and mark up your work, it will affect your grade.

The list below may be modified as the quarter progresses:
Appearance:

Center your drawing views in the drawing area so that it fills the page without over crowding or leaving excess space.

Try to provide equal spacing between your drawing views and the top and bottom of the page as well as from the left and right.

This includes drawn objects as well as notes and dimensions.

The spacing from the drawing views and the border of the drawing should be about the same as the between each of the drawings views both horizontally and vertically.

Dimensions:

Dimension your drawing views according to conventional standards

Move dimensions around to avoid "crowding"

Dimensions referencing the same feature such as a linear pattern, should be grouped together.

Set you dimension text size to 3/32" (found on the Ribbon under the Annotation Tab.  In the Dimension Panel click on the pull down the arrow in the lower right corner for Dimension Style options, choose the "Modify" button, click on the "Text" tab and enter 3/32" for the "Text height".

Scale your dimensions using the "fit" option (found on the Ribbon under the Annotation Tab.  In the Dimension Panel click on the pull down the arrow in the lower right corner for Dimension Style options, choose the "Modify" button, click on the "Fit" tab and enter the value in the "Scale for dimension features, Use overall scale of: ??).

• For now use a scale that is the reciprocal of your view port scale.  For example for a 1/8" = 1'-0" scale the reciprocal of this scale is 96 so use 96 for your fit option (for 1/2" = 1'-0" the reciprocal is 24 and so on).

Include the word "TYPICAL" following dimensions that apply to similar items in the same view such as similar sized holes, fillets, chamfers or row and column offsets.

The isometric view should have no dimensions in it. 

Properly fill in your title block, with CAPITALS only.

Provide an appropriate sheet scale (a scale that applies to every view in your drawing):

Use standard scales such as

Metric: 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10 and similar multiples.

SAE: 1:1, 1:2 (6" = 1'-0"), 1:4 (3" = 1'-0"), 1:6 (2" = 1'-0"), 1:8 (1-1/2" = 1'-0"), 1:12 (1" = 1'-0"), 1:16 (3/4" = 1'-0") and similar multiples of 2,4 and 8.

Automatic scales added by the software may include 1:3, 1:7. 1.5:1 and other non traditional scales need to be modified to standard scales.

Label each view with its own scale if it is different from the sheet scale.

The isometric view should have no scale label on it.

Provide a proper View Title, in CAPITALS with UNDERLINED TEXT.

Position the View Title centered under the drawing view.

The View Title should have the following information answered in the following order top to bottom, what is it? what view is it? what scale is it (if different from the sheet scale)? and any note references that apply to that view. 

Label each view with its own scale if it is different from the sheet scale.

Redos:

All work handed in for regrading must be stapled in front of the markup in order for it to be considered for re-evaluation.

When printing in the lab please use the following guidelines:

• Choose Print.
• In the Print dialog box Select the HP 6015 printer
• Paper size is letter
• What to plot: should be Window.
• At this point the printing options will disappear and and a cursor will appear on your drawing.
• Use this cursor to define a rectangle.  All of the objects within that rectangle will print.
• Choose the corners of the rectangle that we drew for the paper border of our Paper Space drawing on the yellow layer named Title Block Border.
• This puts you back in the print dialog box, select Center the plot
• Make certain that the Plot scale is 1:1
• Go to the top right of the dialog box and select Properties 
• Click on the Custom properties which is the printer properties
• Click on the Color tab
• Click the check mark in the Print in Grayscale box.
• Click OK
• Select the radio button for changing the properties in PC3 file.
• In the main print dialog box click Preview...
• If the preview looks good click OK in the main print dialog box.

Go retrieve your printed drawing.