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Global Titleblock Questions

Global Titleblock Questions

Global Titleblock Questions

(OP)
I have began looking at creation of a global titleblock for our organization and wanted to see if anyone else has dealt with some of the different questions that have been proposed to me.
I was wanting to see how everyone else has dealt with these area of concern dealing with global prints.

How to deal with differences in drafting standards?
List all standard used by different sites using the titleblock (Din, ASME, Etc)

Sheet sizes based on Country

I would be interested in discussing any other areas that people have dealt with either when using a global titleblock or building one for their organization.

Thanks,
hairpull banghead




RE: Global Titleblock Questions

We standardized on global settings for all plants when we went to a global format. Since we in the USA were the parent operation, we had final say in what we ended up with.
Format/paper size: metric A0 to A4
Standards: ISO
View Projection: Third Angle

It is a lot easier to standardize on a single set of standards/formats than create multiple ones for every location.

Creating a universal format is not possible, as the format boundary and blocks are lines and non-parametric, so you need a format file each drawing size at a minimum.

I have just reduced our formats from 4 to 2 by eliminating separate assembly and part formats.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Global Titleblock Questions

(OP)
Ben,

Thanks for your insight on this. I wish it could be that simple with the standards but the non-standard mfg practices are what is defining the standards that are required on the prints. Another area is welding, which we have 2 different standards used right now. AWS and ISO. This creates issues when trying to produce a global type of print. (Guess the growing pains of working towards a global system)

With your company standardizing on the metric paper sizes, how did that affect all of the US groups when plotting or printing out anything. Usually the printers will not auto print when it encounters a different sheet size then the US standards.

Kevin

RE: Global Titleblock Questions

An attempt was made to "find common ground" by overlaying the different sizes (ANSI/ISO) and only utilizing the space that was common, so that whether printed on A3 or B size paper, one would get all information. A global format that would print on either size paper. In the end, I think it was not suitable for our varied environments - but, it was an idea..

gbangs
TC 8.3.3
NX 8.5.3.3 MP11

RE: Global Titleblock Questions

Plotting was done to PDF files, so we plotted full size, then when it went to printer, we printed with Fit to Paper used 11x17 paper stock. One reason to have the "Do Not Scale Print" marking on the formats!

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Ben Loosli

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