ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
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I've been searching for weeks if there are any ANSI/ASME standards to fold an engineering drawing. I have found non so far.
I've been looking for such a document since I am trying to familiarize my students with both ISO and ANSI paper sizes so they get to handle both in case they need it. I am very familiar with the DIN 824-1981 to fold ISO paper sizes. I have algo encountered numerous ways people fold drawings to fit their own needs which follow no particular standard. However I still failed to find standards for ANSI drawings. The only references I ever found to fold ANSI drawings were the following:
(Argonne National Laboratory Reference Image)
(Page 63: Madsen's Engineering Drawinga & Design)
There is another post in this forum which mentions the Global DRM and the MIL-STD-100, but I have no access to those items.
Can any of you help me out with this? Much appreciated!
I've been looking for such a document since I am trying to familiarize my students with both ISO and ANSI paper sizes so they get to handle both in case they need it. I am very familiar with the DIN 824-1981 to fold ISO paper sizes. I have algo encountered numerous ways people fold drawings to fit their own needs which follow no particular standard. However I still failed to find standards for ANSI drawings. The only references I ever found to fold ANSI drawings were the following:
(Argonne National Laboratory Reference Image)
(Page 63: Madsen's Engineering Drawinga & Design)
There is another post in this forum which mentions the Global DRM and the MIL-STD-100, but I have no access to those items.
Can any of you help me out with this? Much appreciated!





RE: ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
A short little episode: In the late 80s our company was interchanging a lot of technical information with our German company. At one meeting we showed up with a large amount of prints neatly folded, but since they came in all different sizes the resulting pile of prints looked like a big mess. Our fiends from Europe had a neat stack of prints folded to DIN 4 with the Information block as the first page since all drawing were made to DIN standards. We spent most of our time in this meeting looking for needed information by unfolding and refolding our prints. It was not our finest hour.
The US and Canada are the only countries still using this old system. The rest of the world uses DIN/ISO.
It's like our mm/dd/yy vs. dd/mm/yyyy in the rest of the world. I guess we hold on to these old systems only because we can.
Yes - Saturday is the fourth of July 2015 (4/7/2015). The US Government uses dd/mm/yyyy.
RE: ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
MIL-STD-100 is available free from http://quicksearch.dla.mil/
Many of the ANSI drawing sizes are based on multiples of 8.5 x 11, but not all.
RE: ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
As for dates, I prefer ISO 8601, which uses YYYY-MM-DD. That makes the most sense to me because it follows the same format as all other measurements: largest units first, smaller sub-divisions next. Our company insists on using DD-MMM-YY.
RE: ANSI Standard for Folding Drawings
Thanks again to everyone for the time you took to answer and for the posted URL!!