Figure 7. Typical drawing layout showing the margins, location of title block and grids.

d.Title box – An important feature which is a must in every drawing sheet. The title box is drawn at the bottom right hand corner of every drawing sheet and provides technical and administrative details regarding the drawing/component. Though there are various dimensions for the title box, for Engineering students it is advisable to use a title box of size 170 mm x 65 mm.

The title box is divided in to two zones: (a) part identification zone and (b) additional information zone. In the part identification zone, information like  the component identification number , name of the part, the legal owner of the drawing (i.e. the name of firm/component/etc will be highlighted where as in the additional information zone, technical information like symbols indicating the system of projection, scale of drawing,  method of indicating surface texture, geometric tolerances, etc. will be highlighted.