Kenat,
I know the US uses ASME, I was referring to the Japanese owned company I work for in the US.
As for the dominate engineering force....I say it's the one who holds all the cards and signs my paycheck! [yinyang]
Kenat,
Yes, the second part of the above call out is for the drilled prehole depth. This must be a Japanese thing too. The US and Japan can't agree on anything. Japan uses JIP and the US uses ISO....can't we all just get along?
Thanks everyone. The software I am using is Solidworks, but they have parameters for all standards of drafting. I work for a Japanese company and they like to see the pitch call out on machining drawings. On a customer drawing it would just say "M3". I just wanted to prove my boss wrong.
What is the ISO standard for calling out holes? I have a new boss, and he likes symbols for everything. My old boss didn't care too much. I used to dimension holes this way:
4x M3X0.5, 5 DP
PREHOLE 6.5 DP, C0.3
My new boss says ISO standard uses symbols for depth, and countersink and...
