Provides general rules and guidelines for the preparation of documents used in electrotechnology. Contains a classification of documents, documentation principles, including the structure of documents, and general drawing rules on formats, layout, graphical symbols and simplification techniques. Numerous illustrative examples are provided. This Standard is identical with and has been reproduced from IEC 1082-1:1991 and IEC 1082-1:1991 Amendment 1:1995 (incorporates Corrigendum:1993).

This International Standard provides generalrules and guidelines for the preparation of documents used in electrotechnology, and specific rules and guidelines for certain kinds of documents.Examples are intended to illustrate a given rule and are not necessarily representative of complete documents.

First published in part as AS 1103.1-1973.AS 1103.3 first published 1976.AS 1103.7 first published 1984.AS 1103.8 first published 1986.Second edition AS 1103.3-1989.AS 1103.1-1973, AS 1103.3-1989, part of AS 1103.7-1984 and part of AS 1103.8-1986 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS/NZS 4383.1:1996. First published in part as AS 1103.1-1973. AS 1103.3 first published 1976. AS 1103.7 first published 1984. AS 1103.8 first published 1986. Second edition AS 1103.3-1989. AS 1103.1-1973, AS 1103.3-1989, part of AS 1103.7-1984 and part of AS 1103.8-1986 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS/NZS 4383.1:1996.