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Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols

abbreviations and symbols used in engineering drawing

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Source revisionJan 20, 2026
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Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols are used to communicate and detail the characteristics of an engineering drawing. This list includes abbreviations common to the vocabulary of people who work with engineering drawings in the manufacture and inspection of parts and assemblies.

Technical standards exist to provide glossaries of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that may be found on engineering drawings. Many corporations have such standards, which define some terms and symbols specific to them; on the national and international level, ASME standard Y14.38 and ISO 128 are two of the standards. The ISO standard is also approved without modifications as European Standard EN ISO 123, which in turn is valid in many national standards.

Australia utilises the Technical Drawing standards AS1100.101 (General Principals), AS1100-201 (Mechanical Engineering Drawing) and AS1100-301 (Structural Engineering Drawing).

See also

List of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing symbols

References

Bibliography

Sources cited

ASME (1997), Y14.35M–1997: Revision of engineering drawings and associated documents, ASME.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

ASME (2007), Y14.38–2007: Abbreviations and acronyms for use on drawings and related documents, ASME.

French, Thomas E.; Vierck, Charles J.; et al. (1953), A manual of engineering drawing for students and draftsmen (8th ed.), New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, LCCN 52013455. Throughout, but especially pp. 689–690, appendix list of abbreviations and symbols.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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"Engineering Materials Abbreviations and Acronyms".

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