Row Jack
Term used to talk about beauty or art and people's appreciation of beautiful things
Aesthetic
A hole that extends completely through a component
Through Hole
A limit to a design process. These may be such things as limitations in appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities.
Constraint
A measuring instrument having two adjustable jaws typically used to measure diameter or thickness
Dial Calipers
Turning around an axis or center point
Rotation
The process of taking something apart and analyzing its workings in detail
Reverse Engineeriing
The digits in a decimal number that carry meaning contributing to the precision or accuracy of the quantity
Significant Digits
The acceptable amount of dimensional variation that will still allow an object to function correctly
Tolerance
A template for a sheet and gives general information about the drawing. Title blocks typically include 2D geometry, text attributes, and images
Title Block
A self-contained system within a larger system
Subsystem
the condition of a part when it contains the smallest amount of material
Least Material Condition (LMC)
The method of design that considers the manufacturing of the parts or product design
Design for Manufacturability
A function that represents the distribution of variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph
Normal Distribution
The relationship of one thing to another in size, amount, etc.
Proportion
Identical components that can be substituted for one another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing. As precision instrumentation became available, large numbers of identical parts could be produced at lower overall cost
Interchangeable Parts
A drawing view that shows a view of an object as if sliced on an imaginary plane, called the cutting plane, and viewed from a direction normal to the cutting plane
Sectional View
A fit that is the fastening between two parts which is achieved by friction after the parts are pushed together, rather than by any other means of fastening
Interference Fit
A variable by which an object can move
Degree of Freedom
A projected view that shows a specific portion of a view at an enlarged scale
Detail View
The tightest possible fit between two mating parts
Allowance
A modeling strategy where an assembly model is created as a system of parts that are parametrically modeled within the assembly
Top Down Modeling Strategy
A strategy in which geometry is defined in such a way that changes produce desired, predictable results
Design Intent
3D modeling where geometry is created with association to other geometry
Parametric
A difference between an object or idea and other objects or ideas of the same type or from a standard
Variation
The distance of a value in a population (or sample) from the mean value of the population (or sample)
Standard Deviation