Drawing Standards Block

[gcp310]

heres a tip i learnt a few years back. we were editing a quite a few drawings done by co workers with no idea. in a nutshell,the drawings had no layer structure,there dimension styles were all over the place,the text format was non existant.

so to rectify this we set up a drawing we called standards. it was a drawing that had layers,text,demensions and layouts all setup. it contained no objects,just an empty drawing.

so when we came along a drawing we had issues with,we would simply insert this standards block into the drawing. This was before autocad had the design center which allows you to drag and drop these entities in. I still use this technique today as it saves time browsing using design center.


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[wei18pc]

how can i draw a nice achitectural drawing with using only free hand?? is tat any easy way to do tat,such as draw a view point ,ground point or something like that?

[hyposmurf]

so to rectify this we set up a drawing we called standards. it was a drawing that had layers,text,demensions and layouts all setup. it contained no objects,just an empty drawing.

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Just tried that and it works :) .Its a bit like setting all your standard styles fonts,layers etc from a DWG rather than a DWT.Have you tried the Batch Standards Checker in CAD 2K4?