If I believe my own nomenclature, this drawing file was created approximately 20 years ago and I still think it looks pretty good … it certainly demonstrates my resolve towards the proper use of lineweight.įeel free to click on the image to open it up and see things in use a bit more clearly …
ARCHITECTURAL FONTS FOR AUTOCAD ARCHITECTURE PDF
Just to find this drawing took me days of digging through old hard drives followed by rebuilding my old *ctb pen table (only a few of probably even know what that is) just so I could create a pdf file to use as an image. As a result, when I look at it, I have a small amount of amusement at the time I spent making tree symbols, getting my lineweights where I wanted them to be, and I even prepared my own graphic symbols. This was the third house I owned and technically the first residential project I ever prepared drawings for in my life. The plan I am showing above has some sentimental value to me and it took a ton of time to make it available for today’s post. My First House Plan A201 – click to enlarge So why am I talking about them? Other than “ Why not?” I felt that it gave me another opportunity to climb aboard my soapbox and proselytize the importance of using lineweight in your drawings. Sure, every architectural firm in the world basically has all the same elements and the graphics don’t change all that much from firm to firm, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise – they wouldn’t work very well if there weren’t some sort of institutional standards in place. They are not very complicated items but shockingly I have some opinions on the matter.
Time for the next installment of Architectural Graphics 101, and this time I decided to take a look at architectural symbols which are really wayfinding devices for our construction drawings.