About Engineering Drawing Basics

Engineering drawings (aka “prints”) are critical documents used to communicate between design, manufacturing and quality.  Not being able to properly read a drawing can easily lead to costly consequences.  This foundational course provides education for creating and interpreting engineering drawings.  

These skills are essential for anyone involved in design, manufacturing or quality.  If you have any interaction with engineering drawings, this course is for you!

This self-paced, online course contains detailed information alongside graphical illustrations and animations to help the concepts sink in.  Multiple quizzes throughout the course also help to ensure the information is being understood.  This training course is based on the ASME Y14 drawing standards (such as ASME Y14.100 and Y14.5).

Course includes a certificate of completion which is issued after fully completing all lessons and quizzes.

*Multiple student discounts available.  This course is also available as SCORM compliant training for your company's LMS.  Contact us to find out more ([email protected]).

Optional Textbook and Training Part

Increase the effectiveness of the training by adding the course textbook and training part.  The textbook helps with learning and is a useful reference to have on hand.  The training part is especially helpful in learning orthographic projection.

Course curriculum

    1. Section 1 - Introduction

    2. Section 1 - QUIZ

    1. Section 2 - Drawing Types

    2. [DRAWING-1] Refer to this PDF drawing for Section 2 Quiz (You can also download the PDF)

    3. Section 2 - QUIZ

    1. Section 3 - Title Block, Addl Blocks & Notes

    2. Section 3 - QUIZ

    1. Section 4 - Lines and Units

    2. Section 4 - QUIZ

    3. [Optional Download] PDF of Line Types

    1. Section 5 - PRINT

    2. Section 5 - Projection Angle & Principal Views

    3. Section 5 - QUIZ

    1. Section 6 - Additional View Types

    2. Section 6 - QUIZ

About this course

  • $250.00
  • 42 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content

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"Orientation Tolerances"

Course Reviews

5 star rating

Great

Joey Kurutz

This course was very well done, well-paced and clearly explained.

This course was very well done, well-paced and clearly explained.

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5 star rating

Great Course!

Sam Shaw

Jordan did an amazing job with this course. Very well written and structured to get the most out of the time during the course. Jordan is an amazing instructor and has a wealth of knowledge about GD&T principles. I think his course is a necess...

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Jordan did an amazing job with this course. Very well written and structured to get the most out of the time during the course. Jordan is an amazing instructor and has a wealth of knowledge about GD&T principles. I think his course is a necessity for any engineer that works with drawings! Highly recommend!

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5 star rating

Great Information

Andrew Brush

Very well presented

Very well presented

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5 star rating

I learned so much!

Julie Colletti

Jordan seriously knows his stuff. I came into this training with extremely limited knowledge of how to read a drawing. I am leaving this training feeling so confident that I have offered to help walk others through reading their drawings. His teac...

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Jordan seriously knows his stuff. I came into this training with extremely limited knowledge of how to read a drawing. I am leaving this training feeling so confident that I have offered to help walk others through reading their drawings. His teaching is clear, concise, and linear. It builds upon itself slowly so that knowledge is easy absorbed. He uses easy to understand examples and speaks in a way that gets the point across. I recommend anyone who is involved with engineering drawings should take this course!

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5 star rating

Great course!

Eder Bello

This course is very thorough and easy to follow along.

This course is very thorough and easy to follow along.

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5 star rating

Excellent overview

Marissa Hart

I signed up for the [In-Person GD&T] Fundamentals course and didn't have any prior knowledge of GD&T. After taking the Engineering Basics class I felt confident with the material and I would have been lost without it. The style of course a...

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I signed up for the [In-Person GD&T] Fundamentals course and didn't have any prior knowledge of GD&T. After taking the Engineering Basics class I felt confident with the material and I would have been lost without it. The style of course also worked with my schedule as you could go at your own pace.

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4 star rating

Simple introduction

Hannah Emanuel

I enjoyed taking this course and I feel that I learned a lot. I have been exposed to prints before and have done my best to use common sense to interpret them, however this course helped fill in the gaps of areas that I wasn't sure about. Overal...

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I enjoyed taking this course and I feel that I learned a lot. I have been exposed to prints before and have done my best to use common sense to interpret them, however this course helped fill in the gaps of areas that I wasn't sure about. Overall, I thought the course was pretty simple, which is perfect for a "Basics" course.

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5 star rating

all sections 1-10

Rich Allanson

Appreciated the depth and tempo of this training; 5 stars

Appreciated the depth and tempo of this training; 5 stars

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5 star rating

Engineering Drawing Basics

Brent Wensmann

Very good introduction/refresher on engineering drawing elements and standards.

Very good introduction/refresher on engineering drawing elements and standards.

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4 star rating

Engineering Drawing Basics

Benny McRedmond

I thought the overall content to be straightforward and helpful to my understanding of Tolerances and their uses. I've never had any training in this area and appreciate the opportunity to learn more here in this course.

I thought the overall content to be straightforward and helpful to my understanding of Tolerances and their uses. I've never had any training in this area and appreciate the opportunity to learn more here in this course.

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5 star rating

The title seems to fit the course well.

Joe Jackson

As someone new to mechanical drawing and CMM operations, this course provided exactly the foundation I was looking for. Datumx's approach to blueprint reading gave me confidence in interpreting technical drawings. What stood out to me was the cove...

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As someone new to mechanical drawing and CMM operations, this course provided exactly the foundation I was looking for. Datumx's approach to blueprint reading gave me confidence in interpreting technical drawings. What stood out to me was the coverage of dimensioning principles. The dimensioning section was particularly valuable. I understand not only how to read dimensions better, but I also have a good understanding.

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