When drawing a floor plan or section the walls that are being cut through should always be a heavier line weight.
Floor plan standard line weights for architectural drawings autocad.
The british technical drawing standards allows for three line weights on each drawing.
However as soon as you get out into the.
The line weights should be in the ratio 4 2 1.
The model file contains basic standard layers to use when drawing.
It is difficult to find standard colour weight assignments and therefore you find yourself wondering if you are doing things correctly and have set things up ok.
Part of the reason i was hoping to hold off on the topic of architectural line weights was that people are asking me insanely specific questions and these folks work in autocad or vectorworks or revit or archicad and on and on.
In order for hand drawn architectural drawings to convey their meaning they need to be neat.
For example a regular ballpoint pen with nominal lineweight if 0 5 is should draw a line with thickness of 0 5 mm.
Lineweights and colours in autocad can be a bit of a minefield when you first start out.
Technically these are.
Control fill style for cabinet plan view display.
Architectural drawing tips.
Engineering drawings only require two line weights construction drawings can have up to four line weights.
We had really good autocad training at uni and were given useful information on standards of practice.
Adjust line weights in plan and elevation views.
The lineweight is the thickness is the line.
Iso din line weight color coding system.
However this varies for each drawing discipline.
Take a look at the vertical joint between the cased opening and the floor base trim.
When i need to change pen weights to convey my drawing message i change to the appropriate layer.
Similarly in cad design we set the thickenss that the line are going to be printed on paper.
You should not use more that four lineweights line thicknesses in drawing.
If you are new to this series please check out architectural graphics 101 line weights for more information.
Following on from our last post about autocad line weights plot styles etc we have had a query from one of our readers about what the standards are for line weights when drawing for example windows walls and so on.
Avoid smudging and making your sketches look messy.
Add cad detailing to views and change layers fill and line styles to create space planning indicators and material patterns.
So to make it easy for you guys we have put together a template model file for you to download.
