Apple's Dimensional Drawings
146 points - today at 12:11 AM
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tippa123 today at 7:20 AM
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.
thechao today at 3:38 AM
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.
JeremyHerrman today at 4:20 AM
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...
barbacoa today at 3:12 AM
What's ironic is that Apple does all their mechanical CAD work for their products in Siemens NX running in Windows VMs.
MBCook today at 2:34 AM
I had no idea they published this to the general public.
amelius today at 6:55 AM
Of what use is this if you cannot reasonably use an Apple consumer product in any industrial solution.
Dig1t today at 5:47 AM
What font is used in the technical drawing part? It's very cool.
djfergus today at 4:44 AM
Curious why the Macbook Neo is the only Macbook included?
mrcwinn today at 3:07 AM
Even the drawing of the Vision Pro feels heavy.
sysguest today at 4:03 AM
idk maybe apple can release fbx or blender files?
I mean these seem nice for print-decorations...
fnord77 today at 6:26 AM
wow, looks like the spent a lot of effort on the corners of the Neo. Too bad the software team didn't spend 1/10th that effort on the corners of the windows with liquid ~~gl~~ass