we are talking past one another but what you write simply makes no sense. Businesses that produce engineered products are highly protective of their designs including any CAD math data and/or detail drawings. Depends on your definition of a detail drawing. The technical definition is a drawing that contains all the GD&T which would be huge windfall for any competitor. No company wants to make it easier for the competition to copy their designs. The exploded views put out there for a layperson to interprete are cartoons or facsimiles of the product and don't remotely resemble a detail drawing.
George
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