Abstract: One variation of a method includes: accessing a rendering of a model depicting features of a part; accessing a set of target features of the rendering and a function of the part, the function defining a constrained degree of freedom for the part; defining a set of datums intersecting a subset of target features that constrain the part according to the constrained degree of freedom; populating an engineering drawing with a set of projections of the rendering; annotating edges of the subset of target features in the set of projections with datum callouts; annotating edges of the set of target features in the set of projections with feature control frames; annotating a set of edges in the set of projections with the basic dimension callouts representing numerical dimensions relative to the set of datums and reference dimension callouts representing maximal dimensions of the part; and rendering the engineering drawing.