line colour

I am currently drawing up two designs on AutoCAD 2010 (one is a bridge, the other is a house). I haven’t used CAD in about two years and I can't remember what colour each line should be.

Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.

becca24221

That is either up to your own preferences or up to your companys preferences.

When you plot do you use a CTB-file? If you do, then the colors represent lineweight.

I don’t think I use a CTB-file. I’m using the educational version of CAD so I don’t really know.

What colour lines do you think I should use?

Then you can create your own CTB file - I assume you have a book of some kind? How to do a CTB-file should be covered in there.

I will not recommend a color scheme, but I can recommend a mehtod. I would say first group up your objects, what do you have in your drawing? texts? Pillar? ground? Steel? Concrete? and so on. Then create layers for each and every thing that you will have in your drawing. This can be done from the start or as you go along. The assign colors to your layers, I would mostly use colors 1-9, and assign them accordingly, so say all texts are Red (even though you have multiple text-layers) and all steel is green for instance.

if you've coloured your layers according to Tiger's instructions, ALL lines should be coloured 'bylayer'. If your tutor then says you've got your colour scheme wrong, changing the colour assigned to that layer will change all the elements drawn on that layer quickly and easily

The other thing drawing 'bylayer' will do for you is to highlight if you've accidentally put an element on the wrong layer, as it'll be in the wrong colour!