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Has anyone heard the term "scrap section"?

RE: general engineering

Context?

You're going to need to provide more detail if you hope to get a meaningful answer.

RE: general engineering

That would be the corner of the laydown yard the used components are stack and plundered for material.

RE: general engineering

When I learnt technical drawing in the old (paper, pencil, drawing board) days, a scrap section is a partial cross sectional view. In other words it is a cross section showing only the important/relevant detail.

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As another old timer brought up on the boards I would agree with gaufridus, a scrap section was a section that showed relevant information but not through any specific plane or set of planes.

It now seems redundant with the way things have moved in 3D modelling, it is now easier to cut sections through a model rather than stick a load of meaningless and non updateable lines on a piece of paper.

RE: general engineering

For me a "scrap section" is a small local sectional view to illustrate a particular feature on a drawing.

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As an old hand, I also agree on the comments,  re - a local view showing important hidden detail.

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My first guess would have been as gaufridus  etc

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

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On the walls of my office are several hand drawn prints dating back to '89. Each show the P&ID of several 2000L vessels. In the corner of each drawing is a section view titled "scrap elevation". These views show the plumbing layout directly behind the vessels, something a normal elevation or plan view couldn't show that well.

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I humbly retract my comment about needing context to get a meaningful answer.  Apparently what is needed isn't detail but relevant experience.  Based on scastillo's response it seems that I entered this field just as "scrap sections" were going the way of the dodo, which makes sense considering the fact that 3D CAD was just starting to be a course offering as I was graduating.

Next time I chime in I'll try to know what I'm talking about, but I make no guarantees......

There's pretty much not a day that goes by where I don't learn something by reading these forums.

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In the context of a workshop the local scrap is the local where metallic wastefulness is placed

luismarques

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dgowans,

I was thinking the same thing you were.  My first thought was in line with 0707.   E.G. A scrap section is the part of a sheet of material that is not used.   This is important to us because we cut round steel saw bodies out of rectangular sheets of expensive steel.

Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com

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