shop drawing

Noun

shop drawing (plural shop drawings)

1. A detailed drawing showing how construction components should be manufactured, assembled, or installed.
   • Detail and assembled drawing may be subdivided into two other general classes: (1) shop drawing and (2) show drawing […] A shop drawing is a drawing calculated to facilitate manufacture, and may be a detail or an assembled drawing, or both. It is usually an outline drawing, very plain and free from...1905, Alpha Pierce Jamison, Elements of Mechanical Drawing: Their Application and a Course in Mechanical Drawing for Engineering Students, 2nd edition, New York: J. Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 3
   • The two chief essentials of a shop drawing, under which general heads a multitude of detail requirements can be summed up, are: (1.) Absolutely complete and definite instructions from designer to workman. (2.) Least possible costs in dollars and cents of production of the drawing measured by the...1904, Howard Monroe Raymond, editor, Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern Making, Machine Design, Foundry and Machine Shop Work, Forging, Tool Making, Sheet Metal...

   Synonyms:

   workshop drawing, fabrication drawing