Mechanical drawings are an excellent way to convey design information, and while sophisticated 3D modeling is slowly taking over, with some companies accepting files over drawings, the mechanical ...

On any given construction project, multiple parties work together toward common goals — to complete the job on time, on budget, and without any accidents or injuries. From the engineer to the general ...

Key points of this articleThe "artistic sense" required for engineers is not the ability to draw beautiful pictures. It is the ability to instantly convey structures, positional relationships, ...

Though vector drawing apps are usually targeted to designers of all stripes, they can be particularly useful to manufacturing and engineering designers. And they can be fun for those designers to use ...

A sleeve bushing can be simple to model yet difficult to quote or verify when its drawing omits the conditions that govern ...

One of the benefits of designing in SOLIDWORKS is the associativity between parts, assemblies and drawings. In the video above, we see how any changes done to a single part will affect your assemblies ...

When a design project is completed, the next immediate task is to communicate the design to much broader audiences, such as peers in different companies, engineers in a manufacturing division, a ...

This collection consists of 8000 reels of 35 mm microfilm engineering drawings of aircraft and engines from the early years through World War II. The microfilm contains engineering drawings, reports, ...

I’m in the planning stages of a side project for Hackaday right now. It’s nothing too impressive, but this is a project that will involve a lot of electromechanical parts. This project is going to ...