line type/weight/color
line type/weight/color
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I am new in autocad and trying to set up my standard. Wondering what others are using in the industry when it comes to line type/weight/color for proposed (say, property line, curb and gutter, new building, dimension, dimension test, leaders, etc.) and existing features in general. Highly appreciate your feed back. Thanks..





RE: line type/weight/color
As far as text; The text height is more important than font. 1/10th of the drawing scale is our standard (0.1 if in paperspace). We usually increase this for text we want to stand out (road names, building numbers, etc).
The bottom line is making a drawing that is easily readable and presents all of the pertinent information in a way that a contractor can read. This is not easy to do in civil drawing, with all the information required.
Hope this helps.
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RE: line type/weight/color
They almost always have a list of standard symbols along with "pen" sizes listed.
Rocky
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I like it, too many layers, but I don't use them all. We use it in my firm, but we do a lot of Dept of Defense work...I wouldn't bank on how "standard" it is.
If you are in PA, USA, using PennDOT's standards as a template will be OK...with the following exceptions:
PennDOT uses 1" = 25' as their standard plan and profile viewport scale. Noone else does, and I have only ever seen one scale with those increments on it, and it was very old.
PennDOT uses Microstation. So make sure your standard hatches, linetypes, fonts and symbols jive with the software you, your consultants and the review agencies use. If that software is AutoCAD, I will tell you from experience that they often do not.
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