deficiencies in y14.38 - abbreviations
 

deficiencies in y14.38 - abbreviations
anyone else get annoyed by some of the obvious words and abbreviations omitted in y14.38. especially those that were in y14.1 before it was replaced.
for example container isn't in 14.38. in y14.1 it was apparantly cntnr.
make that y1.1 not 14.1.
haven't noticed. my employer's too cheap to provide either y1.1 or y14.38. instead i use mil-std-12 which is dowloadable free from the internet.
tunalover
mil-std-12 is pretty out of date, but i guess better than nothing. what asme y14.38 has done is remove all the slashes and dashes from abbreviations and acronyms, as well as delete several of my favorite and most useful abbreviations. why??? that is why, as long as i'm doing commercial and not military anyway, i still use the good ones that are in asme y1.1.
ultimately, i've seen companies develop a colloquial system of abbreviations which are meaningful internally, regardless to what standards exist.
matt
cad engineer/ecn analyst
silicon valley, ca
then there are acronyns, of which many industries (especially mine, the semiconductor and metrology industry) are full of.
abbreviations, if not in an industry standard or a disseminated company standard, should be initially defined on the drawing or document, then used after that.
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