Specifies record formats describing printed board products providing sufficient detail on tooling, manufacturing and testing requirements. These formats may be used for transmitting information between the printed board designer and the manufacturing facility. The records are also useful when the manufacturing cycle includes computer aided processes and numerical control machines. The information can be used for both manual and for digital interpretation. Thus, each facility can produce a printed board product from the data by the most efficient method available. The data may be defined in either customary or metric units.