CADD Procedures Manual

DETAILED LAYER COLORS DESCRIPTION

0	layer color shall be color 7 (white) and is reserved for the creation of blocks only and should have nothing on it.
CL	layer colors shall be color 1 (red) for centerlines, tick marks, and stationing.
DEFPOINTS	layer color shall be color 7 (white) for sheet limit line [insertion point for sheet blocks], and any other entities that you need to see on your screen, yet do not want to plot out. (Even with this layer on, it will not plot)
DIM	layer colors shall be color 2 (yellow) [default] for dimensions, leaders, and bubbles geometry and color 3 (green) for all dimension annotation unless otherwise specified.
EX-*	layer colors shall be color 8 [default], 9, and 250-254 (various shades of grays) for existing conditions. (i.e. EX-EP, EX-SW, ETC.) -* shall refer to specific existing conditions only as required.
HATCH	layer colors shall be color 8 (grey) [default] or 2 (yellow) for all hatch patterns unless otherwise specified.
LOT-LINES	layer color shall be color 6 (magenta) for all property lines, excluding right-of-way.
PROP-*	layers shall be color 3 (green) or 4 (cyan) [default] for proposed construction. -* shall refer to specific proposed construction as required.
RW	layer color shall be color 5 (blue) for all right-of-way lines.
SHEET	layer color shall be color 1 (red) for insertion of Titleblk.dwg, Sht1.dwg, Sht2.dwg, Planpro.dwg, Typical.dwg, and general sheet items (North arrow, Engineers seal, scale bar, etc.).
SHEET-TXT	layer color shall be color 10 for insertion of Titlenfo.dwg, and general sheet text, Matchup.dwg, Matchdn.dwg, titles, etc.
STA	layer color shall be 1 (red) for all station lines, Sta_tic.dwg, and Sta_txt.dwg.
STREET-NAMES	layer color shall be 12 for all street names.
TXT-*	layers shall be color 3 (green) [default] or 1 (red) for existing callout or reference, 3 (green) for notes, and color 12 for section, detail, and misc. Titles.
UT-*	layers shall be color 7 (white) for existing utilities. -* shall refer to specific utility (i.e. UT-W for water). Optional as required.
V	layer color shall be color 1 (red) for all viewports.
X	layer color shall be color 7 (white) [default] for all X-reffed drawings (See Section 5.0).
Y	layer color shall be color 2 (yellow) for all survey points, and X-reffed survey drawings (See Section 5.0).
Z	layer color shall be color 9 (grey) for all photogrammetry, and X-reffed photogrammetry drawings (See Section 5.0).

SECTION 3.6

TEXT

SECTION 3.6.1

FONTS

For all notes, callouts, and descriptive text the following fonts are exceptable unless otherwise approved:

ARCHITXT.SHX

COMPLEX.SHX

BOLD.SHX

ROMANS.SHX

OUTLINE.SHX

DOT.SHX

SIMPLEX.SHX

Do not use AutoCADs "Standard.shx" font. NOTE: If additional fonts are used, then the font used must be included with the drawing package. (See Section 8.0, Accompanying Diskette).

SECTION 3.6.2

TEXT HEIGHT

Text Item:	Layer:	Font:	Plotted	Obliquing
			Height:	Angle:
Project Street Name	Street-names	Architxt	.30	15
Side Street Name	Street-names	Architxt	.20	15
Station Text	Sta	Architxt	.10	15
Dimension Text	Dim	Simplex	.12	0
Existing Text	Ex-	Simplex	.10	0
General Titles	Txt	Archtixt	.25	0
General Notes/
Construction Notes	Txt	Simplex	.12	0
Matchline Text	Sheet-txt	Use Matchup.dwg/Matchdn.dwg
Street Sections	Sheet	Use Typical.dwg

Text style shall stay consistent throughout all plan sheets. See Section 3.6.1 Fonts.

Callout leaders shall stay consistent throughout all plan sheets. See Section 3.4 Arrowheads.

Construction notes and section callouts shall stay consistent throughout all plan sheets.

Use blocks 1.dwg - 30.dwg for construction notes.

SECTION 3.6.3

TEXT STYLE NAMES

* Represents the font that will be used for the style name

*-00-0 Text with "0.00" text height, and an obliquing angle of "0" degrees

*-10-0 Text with "0.10" text height, and an obliquing angle of "0" degrees

*-12-0 Text with "0.12" text height, and an obliquing angle of "0" degrees

*-20-15 Text with "0.20" text height, and an obliquing angle of "15" degrees

*-400-0 Text with "4.00" text height, and an obliquing angle of "0" degrees

*-480-15 Text with "4.80" text height, and an obliquing angle of "15" degrees

The following choices of fonts can be used:

A = ARCHITXT.SHX

B = BOLD.SHX

C = COMPLEX.SHX

D = DOT.SHX

O = OUTLINE.SHX

RD = ROMAND.SHX

RS = ROMANS.SHX

S = SIMPLEX.SHX

(Example: S-12-0 = Simplex font with "0.12" text height, and an obliquing angle of 0 degrees)

SECTION 3.7

DIMENSION STYLES

The "DDIM" command will bring up the dialog box. Style name shall refer to overall dimension scale and text style name used for dimensions.

Example:

1X_S-10-0 = dimscale of '1' and dimension text of 'S-10-0'

20X_S-120-0 = dimscale of '20' and dimension text of 'S-120-0'

Save the style names.

NOTE: Turn "DIMASO" to 1 (on) before dimensioning.

Select "Geometry" to continue.

Set the variables as shown above.

Important! This is where the overall scale is set. Modelspace scale should be set to your expected plotting scale. Paperspace dimscale should be set to '1'.

Select "OK" then "Format" to continue.

Set the variables as shown above.

Select "OK" then "Annotation" to continue.

Set the variables as shown above.

Select "Units" to continue.

Set the variables as shown above.

Always save the dimensions styles when exitting the ddim command.

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