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(@imaudigger)
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So traditionally I have used line types for utilities that reflected their purpose;
----T---- Telephone
------TV---- Cable TV
------E----- Power
-----SS----- Sanitary sewer
----S---- Storm drain
Ect. Ect.

I think this is probably somewhat of an industry standard.
What do you guys use for fiber optic?
----CATV---- for fiber optic communications cable?

Is there a standard?

Sorry Eric!! :clap:

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 2:44 pm
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You probably don't want to use:

---FO---

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 2:49 pm
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imaudigger, post: 354099, member: 7286 wrote: What do you guys use for fiber optic?
----CATV---- for fiber optic communications cable?

CATV usually refers to a coax line rather than fiber, so I don't recommend that.

On drawings that have no fire communications lines I just use F; if fire comm is present, I use FO (despite what Warren advises!). And I spell it out in the legend in either case.

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 2:58 pm
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-----COMM----

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 3:00 pm
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Jim Frame, post: 354107, member: 10 wrote: And I spell it out in the legend in either case.

:good:

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 3:04 pm
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Warren Smith, post: 354104, member: 9900 wrote: You probably don't want to use:

---FO---

I use --F/O-- for fiber, but differentiate between different utilities using line type and legend.
--CU-- for copper

Run into problems regularly with relocates when the mapping doesn't differentiate whose fiber it is and thus whose responsibility it is to get it out of the way of road upgrades.

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 3:26 pm
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Warren Smith, post: 354104, member: 9900 wrote: You probably don't want to use:

---FO---

How about ----FU----- for underground fiber?

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 3:55 pm
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Most of the time the path of the utilities have not been located.

I only show where the fiber optic risers are located.

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 4:20 pm
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Warren Smith, post: 354104, member: 9900 wrote: You probably don't want to use:

---FO---

That's what we use...

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 4:24 pm
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Jim in AZ, post: 354129, member: 249 wrote: That's what we use...

I know - and they are marked with fluorescent orange. That leaves surveyors with fluorescent pink ...

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 4:35 pm
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I use FO too.

 
Posted : January 20, 2016 5:04 pm