UNDERSTANDING DRAWING SIZES AND SCALES

[ESchomberg]

Dear sirs, I am trying to simplify my styles and settings. I drew for one guy that had different symbol sizes, different line widths, different hatch pattern scales(depending on what scale you are drawing in).

I prefer to have one symbol size, one line width, one hatch pattern scale for all drawings no matter what scale or sheet size I am using. For example my boundary line width is 8mm, my building width is 4mm, my lot lines are 2mm etc. I prefer to use a hatch pattern of .50 using a light hatch.

If I draw a 20 scale 11x17 mortgage survey using these settings(which looks good) and then draw a 60 scale survey on a larger sheet using the same settings, is the second drawing going to look out of whack??

Is it necessary to have different symbol sizes, line widths, hatch patterns for every scale that you draw in and every sheet size you draw in? or will it all look the same, just on a different scale and sheet size?

[chriscowgill7373]

Civil 3d will scale a lot of things such as annotation and various symbols based on the scale of the drawing.  additionally annotative block are capable of appearing a constant size no matter the scale of the drawing.  that way you only need to have a single definition of a block and it will work at multiple scales.