What are the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Y14.41-2003 and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 16792 standards and why is it important to comply with them?
The development of the ASME Y14.41 National Standard was initiated at the request of U.S. industry and the U.S. Government. The ASME Y14.41 standard establishes requirements, and references documents applicable to the preparation and revision of digital product definition data, referred to as data sets. Y14.41 defines the exceptions and additional requirements to existing ASME standards for using product definition data sets or drawings in 3D digital format. This standard supports two methods of application: model only, and model and drawing in digital format. ISO 16792 is an emerging standard based on ASME Y14.41 that, when available, will be relevant to international companies interested in complying with ISO standards. PTC believes that the future of design relies heavily on the availability 3D drawing capability and because these standards provide the rules for capturing and communicating 3D annotations, they will create huge process advances for discrete manufacturers; therefore,
