BS 5070-1:1988
Superseded
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Engineering diagram drawing practice Recommendations for general principles
Hardcopy , PDF
11-23-2007
English
02-29-1988
Foreword
Committees responsible
Recommendations
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Principal types of diagrams
4 Drawing sheets
5 Principles of application
6 Lettering
7 Graphical symbols
8 Explanatory notes
9 Use of colour
10 Marking
Tables
1 Recommended drawing sheet sizes (trimmed)
2 Special elongated sheet sizes
3 General types of lines
4 Minimum character height for capital letters and
numerals
Figures
1 Drawing sheets showing frame, title block and other
markings
2 Terminal points and lines entering and leaving a
drawing sheet
3 Use of thicker lines for emphasis
4 Line identification
5 Line grouping
6 Single line representation on a multi-line diagram
7 Indication of number of paths in single-line
representation
8 Omitting lines
9 Connections entering and leaving in common line
representation
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