Use of Colour Hatches for Civil Production Drawings

[RDunkley]

Just curious as to whether people use much colour in their production drawings, particularly for hatches...?

Working for Local Government, we tend to utilise colour hatches to show all kinds of information.

Generally, we have found that colour hatches are a good way to clearly show different areas and materials such as pavements, paths, landscape areas etc. Hatches can then be used to quickly ascertain areas for estimation and our construction team like them too as the plans tend to be easier to read.

The usual arguments about reproduction of plans and slowing down of computers doesn't seem to be an issue for us. Most photocopiers are in colour now anyway and we just make sure that even in black & white the plans are readable.

The way that Civil 3D deals with hatching doesn't seem to slow things down for us either.

Anyway, would love to hear what other people think.

Regards.

[neilyj666]

Yes I use this approach as well but put all my hatch objects on specific layers starting with HTCH_ to allow easy data extractions.

You can also use parcels to generate hatches for various areas (and report them) but obviously there is a more of a drawing management issue vs using simple hatch objects...:)