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- It's crazy how good Astra is at designing these from just a PDF: https://mute-violet-3e94.cloudflare-y3fod.workers.devby MotiBanana
- What font is used in the technical drawing part? It's very cool.by Dig1t
- Why are the rounded edges for eg.: on MacBook Neo defined as small distance specs instead of a radius?by szemy2
- I had no idea they published this to the general public.by MBCook
- Oh my word, have a look at the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the level of detail.
Now imagine you’re the manufacturer and this is the spec you have to meet. Of course, they will have tolerances but still this is incredible. I wonder what the accepted rejection rate is?
I'm also curious how Apple handles surface roughness? The dimensions only give you part of the picture.
by tippa123 - Seems like this URL has only been live (at least first archived [0]) around May 2026, originally with only 13 products. Great to see them add more since then, now close to 90.
0: https://web.archive.org/web/20260512182718/https://developer...
- I wish overhead (cut away to passenger layout) and side scale drawings of all cars existed. That way you could directly compare the vehicles. You'd think such information would be needed (in the U.S.) by the NTSB; and, thus, be freely available.by thechao
- What's ironic is that Apple does all their mechanical CAD work for their products in Siemens NX running in Windows VMs.by barbacoa