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Old timer at a shop in Portland made me rethink my line weights
I was working on a set of plans for a small apartment building in Portland a few years back. An older drafter named Roy came over and looked at my drawing, then pointed at my line weights and said "you got everything the same thickness, it all bleeds together." He was right, I was just using default layers without thinking about hierarchy. So I started experimenting with thicker lines for walls and thinner ones for dimensions. It took a couple jobs to get the hang of it, but now my drawings read way clearer. Even the engineers I work with noticed and said they could follow my plans faster. Have you ever had someone call out a basic habit you needed to break?}
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anthonyrivera11d ago
Heard a similar thing from @blair990 about dimension styles once and it totally changed how I organize notes.
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rivera.hannah11d ago
honestly i don't get the big deal about line weights. if someone can't read a drawing because some lines are a tiny bit thicker or thinner that's their problem not yours. most of the time i just use two weights and nobody has ever complained because they actually care about the dimensions and notes not the thickness of a wall line.
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