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Metric Handbook - Planning and Design Data - 5th Edition - Copy 19

The document discusses dimensional coordination in building design, noting that components must fit within allocated grid spaces while allowing for tolerances, and that using a modular grid system with standardized sizes of components offers benefits like reduced design and production costs through increased use of standard parts and familiarity with common component sizes. It also outlines the basic aims and elements of dimensional coordination as establishing preferred module increments of 300mm, 100mm, 50mm, and 25mm to obtain maximum economy and efficiency.

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Metric Handbook - Planning and Design Data - 5th Edition - Copy 19

The document discusses dimensional coordination in building design, noting that components must fit within allocated grid spaces while allowing for tolerances, and that using a modular grid system with standardized sizes of components offers benefits like reduced design and production costs through increased use of standard parts and familiarity with common component sizes. It also outlines the basic aims and elements of dimensional coordination as establishing preferred module increments of 300mm, 100mm, 50mm, and 25mm to obtain maximum economy and efficiency.

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1-8 Design information and dimensional coordination

y The degree of inaccuracy to be allowed for in the building process


M is related to the economics of jointing. Adequate space must be
allowed for size of component plus joint. Transgressing the rules
of locating components within the allotted space contained by grid
lines will cause considerable difficulty in site assembly.
The basic arrangement of components within the grid layout
M

shows them fitting into the spaces allocated to them: dimensionally


they are coordinated, thus allowing the designer maximum use of
standard components, Figure 1.11.
2M

x
M

1.9 Three-dimensional grid of basic modules

modular grid network delineates the space into which each compo-
nent fits. The most important factor of dimensional coordination
is that the component must always be undersized in relation to the
space grid into which it has to fit (but not to too great an extent).
In the engineering world the piston and cylinder principle estab-
lishes the size relationship between dimensional space grid and
component, Figure 1.10. The size of the cylinder must allow for
the right degree of accuracy and tolerance to enable the piston to
move up and down.

1.11 Fitting a component into a dimensionally coordinated grid


cylinder
sealing rings
Advantages to designers may include:
component x reduction in design labour
piston
x reduced production of working drawings by the use of standard
tolerance
details
walls of cylinder x choice of interrelated standard components at the various price
levels.

5.2 Basic aims of DC


The basic aims of DC (as defined in BS 4011:1966) were:

x to obtain maximum economy in the production of components


x to reduce the manufacture of non-standard units
x to avoid wasteful cutting on-site.

Potential advantages to manufacturers include:

x more effective use of labour in producing standard lines


x reduction in the stocking, invoicing and other operations con-
nected with numerous differently sized products. there should
functional tolerance
also be advantages to contractors, not only through better design
of components for fit but also through increasing familiarity with
standard components.
working size
of component BS 4011 was superseded by BS 6750:1986.

5.3 Basic elements of DC


Preference for size
functional The preferred increments are:
space
x First preference (multimodule) multiples of 300 mm
x Second preference (basic module) multiples of 100 mm
x Third preference (submodule) multiples of 50 mm up to 300 mm
1.10 The piston and cylinder principle x Fourth preference (submodule) multiples of 25 mm up to 300 mm.

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