DRAWING SETUP

4. Other Drawing Requirements (Contd...)

o. Plotting – Paper format drawing deliverables need not be plotted from AutoCAD. However, electronic drawing deliverables are required to be able to accurately reproduce those paper format deliverables when plotted from AutoCAD using settings.

p. Templates (layer seed files) and Title-blocks – -provided templates (layer seed files) and titleblocks shall be used to prepare all drawings. Model files are required to have a model file information block.

q. Text and Fonts – Use only standard AutoCAD or approved True Type fonts.
The typical text styles can be 3 in no. –
i. Arial – For Body Text
ii. Century Gothic – For Subtitles
iii. Times new Romans – For Titles / Headings

r. Units – Metric units shall be the standard system of measurement for new facilities and most design and construction projects unless otherwise specified. Every drawing should be started with Decimal units with precision of 0.00.

s. Variables and Commands – Set as follows for all drawings submitted to :
Variables Settings
ISAVEPERCENT 0, ensures every SAVE is a full SAVE
PDMODE 0, controls how point objects are displayed
PDSIZE 0, sets the display size for point objects
PSLTSCALE 1, Viewport scaling governs linetype scaling
TILEMODE 1 (model space) for model files; 0 (paper space) for sheet files For TILEMODE = 0, PSPACE shall be active, not MSPACE (floating model space)
VISRETAIN 1

Commands Settings
BASE Insertion base point (0,0,0)
GRID Off
LAYER Current layer is on
LIMITS Off, drawing limits to drawing size
LINETYPE Current entity linetype BYLAYER
POINT Display mode 0, size 0.0
QTEXT Off
SNAP Off
TEXT Style STANDARD
UCS Set UCS to world
UCSICON Set UCSICION to no origin
UNITS (linear) As appropriate for drawing
UNITS (angular) Decimal degrees (surveyor’s units for civil drawings)
ZOOM To drawing extents

We will see the last set of 'Other Drawing Requirements' tomorrow. Stay tuned…!