- Industrial drawing history
- Multiview and projections, Scaling, Sectioning
- Critical information
- Line styles and types
- Systems of dimensioning and tolerancing
- Standardization and disambiguation
- Sizes of drawings
- Conventional parts (areas)
- list of materials (L/M, LM, LoM), bill of materials (B/M, BM, BoM), or parts list (P/L, PL)
- Abbreviations and symbols (Welding, Screw, …)
- Legal instruments & Relationship to model-based definition (MBD/DPD)