?ÿWhat is the best way to plot the attached topo on sheets? We use either 24x36 or 30x42 sheets....I have been drafting for 25 years but this one is giving me fits, nothing looks good. any ideas? The site is about 1400'x1400' and the center portion of the park wasn't part of the scope, or the other blank spot to the east.
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It all depends on what scale is required. A 1"=4' is going to take a lot of sheets, 1"=100' not so many.
I would start at the upper left corner and continue clockwise around the drawing overlapping the drawings with the long axis of the paper parallel with the edge of the drawing.?ÿ Four sheets? Nine? Sixteen?
Whoever is going to use the drawings probably won't need to look at more than one at a time anyway.
I think 4 views on 2 sheets at 1"-50' scale, with 2 of the views DVIEW rotated 90?ø. Then a third sheet with the overall view at about 1"=100 scale with a sheet layout diagram.
@norman-oklahoma?ÿ ?ÿYes, as long as you do an overall, then things seem to work out fine. The engineer is going to re-chop it up wrong anyway.
Surprise to know that clients still need hardcopies? 100% of my clients just want the CAD file. We just make a title block scaled to fit the entire drawing on a separate layer. Makes our life easier.
@jonathan50 Hard copies are king (actually pdf's), we absolutely provide the CAD file and it is the only thing anybody looks at but the signed copy is what we are liable for.
@norman-oklahoma I did the 4 views but at 40 scale and showed a small key map on both sheets and kept it at two sheets.
Same here. We also have a lot of clients that want to print out at a usable scale and doodle on them for preliminary planning & design, before moving on to the CAD work.