Ford Drafting Standards

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The purpose of the FAO Engineering CAD and Drafting Standards is to provide direction to Ford Motor Company Engineering Activities, Full Service Suppliers, and contract engineering Companies for the preparation of Product and Manufacturing technical drawings for use by Ford Motor Company and its suppliers. These Standards provide comprehensive information regarding the preparation and interpretation of engineering drawings and assist Ford Motor Company’s engineering organizations to satisfy the principles of ISO 9000.

The standards provide direction to all Ford Motor Company engineering activities, suppliers, and contract engineering companies for the preparation of both Product and Manufacturing technical drawings. Technical drawings being defined as any graphical representation, whether 2D, 3D, on CAD or other medium, used to describe the design intent of objects and containing the necessary annotations to construct either final products, models, machinery, tooling and assembly aids.

The Ford Engineering Drafting Standards are now available in PDF format, viewable with the Adobe Acrobat Reader, on a single CD-ROM. In addition to the Ford standards, the service also includes the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards referenced within the FAO Engineering Drafting Standards. You can locate a precise standard either by searching the full-text or by browsing the table of contents. The service is updated every six months and is networkable for an extra fee.

The documents are Ford internal standards related to the design and creation of CAD drawings and engineering prints. Some of the topics covered are:

• Drawing Layout Requirements
• Classification and Numbering
• Drafting Conventions
• Dimensions and Tolerancing
• Symbol Usage
• Wiring/Circuitry Requirements
• AutoCad Considerations

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• Individual Standards - Individual standards documents may be ordered from the IHS Standards Store in hardcopy format. IHS subscription customers may purchase individual Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.

IHS also offers standards from these organizations

Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. (AIA)
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Petroleum Institute (API)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
ASTM International (ASTM)
Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
American Welding Society (AWS)
British Standards Institution (BSI)
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
CSA International (CSA)
Canadian Standards Association/American National Standard (CSA/AM)
Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)
Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association (ECA)
Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
General Motors (GM)
Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC)
Industrial Safety Equipment Association (ISEA)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Japanese Standards Association (JSA)
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
RTCA, Inc.
SAE International
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)

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