I'm tasked with preparing an as-built of a wireless site I did the design survey and staking for. No big deal since I did all the initial work. Land is leased by the client from local government and covers 0.92 acres out of a 66 acre tract, along with a major ROW. I'm really kind of fussy about my drawings not being overly cluttered and too busy to be easily interpreted. Drew everything up showing lease site, footprint of improvements, labeling and dimensions, survey ties to recovered monuments, basis of bearings, record vs. measured, blah, blah. Worked out perfect at 1:50 scale with a nice inset 1"=10' detail on a 18"x24" sheet size. Then I hit this little snag ... Them, 'Sooo ... you think you could possibly make that fit that on a 8 1/2" x 11" for us?, with a 1" margin and a title block, and now don't forget the north arrow, scale bar and your stamp.'
Me. (que the crickets chirping) o.O
Just venting. Carry on.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Sure. I'll split it into four pieces and put one on each page. Then you can put them all before you at once and try to make sense of them.
Idiots. And, more or being born every day.
Williwaw, post: 337496, member: 7066 wrote: I'm tasked with preparing an as-built of a wireless site I did the design survey and staking for. No big deal since I did all the initial work. Land is leased by the client from local government and covers 0.92 acres out of a 66 acre tract, along with a major ROW. I'm really kind of fussy about my drawings not being overly cluttered and too busy to be easily interpreted. Drew everything up showing lease site, footprint of improvements, labeling and dimensions, survey ties to recovered monuments, basis of bearings, record vs. measured, blah, blah. Worked out perfect at 1:50 scale with a nice inset 1"=10' detail on a 18"x24" sheet size. Then I hit this little snag ... Them, 'Sooo ... you think you could possibly make that fit that on a 8 1/2" x 11" for us?, with a 1" margin and a title block, and now don't forget the north arrow, scale bar and your stamp.'
Me. (que the crickets chirping) o.O
Just venting. Carry on.
Well - you're in luck! They could have added "legible" as a requirement!
Some people have no respect for the trade.
They only see lines on paper and could care less about the details or what they represent.
It is possible, print as a press quality PDF.
Print photo quality on 98 brightness Laser paper with a high quality printer capable of 1200dpi or better that is capable of printing very narrow spider web lines.
I had an Epsom Stylus Color 1520 wide carriage that would do that, did not use enough to keep the print heads from drying out.
good luck
Oh how I know the feeling of wanting to add "magician" to my title. Like when missing a dimension for a drawing, being asked "doesn't AutoCAD dot that?" Um, NO, not without inputting numbers for the math part of it...... "can't you just....." again, NO, I can't just pull that answer out of my hind end....
Don't you have the "redraw letter size" button on your keyboard? It's between the "draft topo" and "draft boundary survey" buttons.
I just spent the better part of 40 hours shoehorning a Specific Purpose Survey for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection onto 10 8.5x11 sheets the upland parent tract was approx 1200' N/S by 2400' E/W, the Sovereign Submerged Land Lease for the mooring area approx 700' N/S lying approx 500' off shore with various 12'x12' "bump outs" for breasting dolphins and several isolated 12'x12' mooring dolphin parcels. Oh and we were modifying an existing lease that had an assumed bearing base to reflect state plane bearings so every line call had record and measured bearings. So I definitely feel your pain.