DIN Standards Committee Technical Fundamentals
Technical product documentation (TPD) - Presentation of dimensions and tolerances - Part 1: General principles
Abstract
This document establishes the general principles for presentation of dimensions and associated tolerances that apply to 2D technical drawings in all disciplines and trades but which can also be applied to 3D applications, applications (mainly in the mechanical engineering discipline). Where applicable, 2D and 3D figures are included to illustrate the same dimensioning rules. This document does not cover the application of dimensional tolerances and their meaning. See ISO 14405‑1 for tolerancing principles. This document can only be used to describe the nominal model of a drawing, not the non-ideal surface model (skin model) used for tolerancing purposes (for more information on tolerancing specifications, see the list of ISO GPS standards listed as normative reference or as bibliography). Considering the ISO 14405 series, the presentation of tolerance indication is unambiguous when it is applied to a dimension which is a size and ambiguous when the dimension is not a size. All rules presented in this document are available for any type of drawing (see ISO 29845). In addition, this document introduces the concept of property indicators, developed length, between, surface indicators, flagnotes and textual instructions. NOTE Additional information and details for construction engineering are given in ISO 6284.
Begin
2026-06-18
WI
CSF01134
Planned document number
prEN ISO 129-1 rev
Responsible national committee
NA 152-06-05 AA - Technical product documentation
Responsible european committee
previous edition(s)
Order from DIN MediaTechnical product documentation (TPD) - Presentation of dimensions and tolerances - Part 1: General principles (ISO 129-1:2018)
2019-10
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