Anyone here in engineering?

[manlymatt83]

So I'm trying to come up with a naming scheme that involves blueprints. Is there an official term for "parts" or "sections" of a blueprint diagram? Quadrants? Sections? Thanks!

 

[lxskllr]

Legend?

 

[Vic Vega]

Inventory.

 

[manlymatt83]

Isn't that more of a summary of parts, not necessarily the parts themselves? As an example, if this were a book, I'd be looking for "chapters".

 

[Cattlegod]

key?
index?
contents?

 

[manlymatt83]

key?

Again, that's more of a table of contents. I'm looking for the "chapters" (comparing to my book analogy).

 

[Cattlegod]

header?

 

[brianmanahan]

bag of holding

 

[Imp]

legend?

 

[Hacp]

You're looking for architects.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Never heard of anything like this. We usually just directly call out assemblies and parts with balloons and numbers. Sounds like an architecture thing as someone else suggested.

 

[yh125d]

Plot plan - overall view of entire area with notation of major objects, maybe some dimensioning

Key plan - basically a copy of the plot plan, with most info removed (just names of major stuff usually. shows matchlines of the other, smaller more detailed "area" plans to show how they connect - where area can change depending on what you're detailing (we use piping plans in my business, as we are piping designers. area plan can be used as a generic term though)

area plans - smaller more detailed drawing of a specific area generally with complete notation, as well as showing where certain sections or elevations are cut from. has matchlines detailing where they connect to the other area drawings

 

[FleshLight]

Are you looking at multiple views of the same part/assembly? Use section views:

http://www.maelabs.ucsd.edu/mae_guides/autocad/3d_to_2d.htm

 

[Triumph]

So I'm trying to come up with a naming scheme that involves blueprints. Is there an official term for "parts" or "sections" of a blueprint diagram? Quadrants? Sections? Thanks!

What the heck kind of engineering are you talking about? Sounds like you mean "engineering" as in "the guy that fixes the building stuff." In ME drawings, call outs for certain areas of the print are referred to by their section, A-3, B-2, C-4, etc.

 

[deadlyapp]

As someone else said, often if there is an assembly (a group of individual parts), you will have a bill of material with the part description, part number, and whatever other reference you want (you could reference the individual part drawings if you wanted).

 

[OutHouse]

My dwarf is a level 600 engineer

 

[Murloc]

maybe you should state what the blueprint contains, I'm pretty sure different kinds of engineer use different names.

If these sections have no relation with the content of the blueprint itself the term is probably geometrical.

Quadrant: only if it's divided in just 4 pieces by a cartesian system (it contains the word 4).

I'd call them sections.

 

[manlymatt83]

I think assembly works!

 

[Sahakiel]

Blueprints/schematics/etc. are named/referenced/etc. differently in each field. On top of that, technical jargon differs significantly from lay in many cases. What you tell a fellow engineer may sound much different than what you tell the marketing folk even if you're talking about the exact same thing.

You will want to:
1. Describe exactly what kind of charts you are trying to organize.
2. Indicate which industry they are from.
3. Identify who you are going to be presenting them to.