Critiquing my template

[mattieg]

How would I go about finding a professional to critique my title block? Is there a way to post it here?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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Matt

[hotrodz0321]

there are many professionals here....most of us work with title blocks everyday......you can post the dwg here (if you have enough posts...i think there is a 10 post minimum)

[mattieg]

As soon as I can post it, I will. Thank you.

[mattieg]

Actually, I guess I can upload it. Here it is, I changed the file extension to *.dwg because it won't let you upload *.dwt files. Thank you for critiqing it! I would appreciate many different opinions, so please don't hesitate to comment, regardless of how harsh it may be!

 

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Matt

acad-a-title.dwg

[hotrodz0321]

it serves its purpose....i modified yours just to show you what you could do to add aesthetic values to the title block...i modified the corners a bit....just be creative

[dbroada]

looking at hotrodz post I would change the font for standard style to simplex (or ariel) eather than txt

[ReMark]

Given the spacing after your text have you actually left enough room for the required information without squeezing it to fit?

[mattieg]

I made my template from a tutorial in an AutoCAD Tutorial Book I bummed from a Professor at College, so, I personally don't have any need for a drawing code or revisions or whatnot for my class projects. So, for scale, date, and etc, I do have enough space

[mattieg]

it serves its purpose....i modified yours just to show you what you could do to add aesthetic values to the title block...i modified the corners a bit....just be creative

 

Looks great! Do you mind if I adopt that in my template?

[cpriedel]

I would also look into what Information is Important and emphasis.

I wouldnt do e.g. "Dr. By", "Ch. By" (I would suggest to use "Drawn" and "Checked") in the same text size than lets say the Sheet Titel or No. You may also want to add a Scale and northing in the TB and maybe a space for the Arch Stamp.

Not sure what this TB is meant for. Just thinking out loud

[nocturne00]

One important thing, Revision numbers, always include a space for those.

Try to google some title blocks on the net, just as related literature to improve your own title block.

 

Cheers

[nocturne00]

Here's a TB ive just completed recently.

all basic info is placed, based on many tb's ive looked on the net We've just deducted and narrowed down all necessary info to these. revision descriptions are to the other side of this image.

 

Hope this helps.

[hotrodz0321]

Looks great! Do you mind if I adopt that in my template?

 

yes you may...thats why i posted it..

[JONTHEPOPE]

SAVE CODE AS

 

JONP.SCR

 

IN NOTEPAD

 

TOOLS RUN SCRIPT

 

 
LAYER
NEW
OBJECT,CENTER,HIDDEN,DIM,BORDER,HATCH
L
CENTER
CENTER
L
HIDDEN
HIDDEN
C
RED
OBJECT
C
YELLOW
CENTER
C
BLUE
HIDDEN
C
GREEN
DIM
C
MAGENTA
BORDER
C
CYAN
HATCH

 

NOW LOOK IN LAYER MANAGERo:)

[rookie37]

I saw a clever idea on a drawing.

 

First, I'll back up.

 

There is a problem in the industry that a preliminary drawing will go out incorrectly. The stamp 'Not for construction' is sometimes forgotten to be placed on it. Consequently, things get built using a preliminary drawings.

 

Now for the clever idea I saw

 

The title block had the stamp inbuilt in it. (this is not the clever part)

 

The clever part is that the stamp was 'Not For Construction'

 

To make this drawing for constuction the 'NOT' was an attribute and had to be edited to be removed.

 

'For Construction' was permanent and part of the title block.

 

Therefore, if this step got forgotten, nothing got built.