Looking through some ancient office files, and it's one of my (many) pet-peeves, plans folded face-in.?ÿ
I probably didn't do this before I started surveying, but have definitely been doing it since - I fold them face-out, so when I'm looking through a folder, I can quickly see which one I'm looking for, without unfolding them all.
This is killing me, constantly unfolding countless copies of the same plans, till eventually I find the one I'm looking for
Fold them in such a way you can suit significant writing.
I fold them face out with the title block showing if possible. Then I write the plan book, page and the record date in the margin. It took a while before I could fold a 24" x 36" map into 8.5" x 11" nicely.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Plan folding is a lost art.?ÿ So is laying out a drawing with the location of the folds being kept in mind so that it does not need to be fully opened to see significant portions of the overall product.?ÿ A common problem with the typical tabloid size drawing comes when trying to copy it in two halves.?ÿ Many have found it works best to put the drawing on one half and all the relevant text on the other half.
I don't much care for the plan-folding task, and fortunately I don't have to do much of it these days thanks to digital submittals.?ÿ But when I do have to fold drawings -- even if it's only one sheet -- I use a hand roller, which makes an onerous task less onerous.?ÿ ?ÿIt saves wear-and-tear on my hands and makes for a very crisp fold.
Eh, don't really care about style, just want to be able to see enough of it while thumbing through a folder, without having to unfold it
My former crew chief taught me how to fold maps but not doing daily production work and with digital submittals, not much folding happens these days.?ÿ
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I had never heard of a hand roller, so I used my Google-fu to look it up.?ÿ I have seen them, just never knew the term.?ÿ I personally use a "hard plastic tint film applicator" as found at Amazon here.?ÿ Although I somehow manage to find them for free.?ÿ?ÿ
I'm talking more about office files and field folders, not so much the art of folding for submittals, though
I learned to fold print side in first. Then fold the printed side out at the 1/4 fold. Like this: //
@jim-frame My two pet peeves are running the instrument and folding plats.?ÿ Seems like a monster waste of my time.
@geoff-ashworth?ÿ Dunno if it's still so, but one County I worked in required plan submittals be folded in a certain way or they wouldn't accept them.?ÿ I couldn't remember the folding process 'till you spoke up.?ÿ One final fold was required, top to bottom, offset so the Title Block was visible.?ÿ I gotta admit it was a nifty fold; flip back the last fold, then pull on two diagonal corners and voila!
A peeve of mine is civil plansets must be rolled with the printed side out so they lie flat when unrolled.?ÿ
I personally use a "hard plastic tint film applicator" as found at Amazon here.
I use the cheap-but-sturdy plastic roller that came with the foil inventory tags that I stick onto new equipment.?ÿ It doesn't have to be fancy, the idea is to make a tool do the creasing work instead of my hands.
@holy-cow computer habits and work flow changed a bit. I??ll try to be around a bit more. 🙂
We haven't used maps that require folding for many years.?ÿ All our engineering plans are 11x17 with very few exceptions.?ÿ Surveys are recorded and scanned, no need to keep original recorded versions anymore.?ÿ ?ÿ That said, definitely roll them so the information is on the outside of the roll.