BS 8888:2017 Technical product documentation and specification

BS 8888 is the UK’s national framework standard for engineering drawings and geometrical tolerancing. It covers all of the requirements for the technical specification of products and their component parts. It explains the way in which engineering drawings outline and present these specifications. It covers all of the symbology and information that engineers and designers need to include on their drawings, be they manually produced (2D), or in 3D, created using CAD systems and 3D modeling (computer-aided design). It also brings together, in one easy-to-follow document, all the international standards needed to prepare technical product specifications. As such BS 8888 acts as a gateway – or roadmap – to around 200 ISO standards on documentation, specification and verification.