anna567•6d agoMost Upvoted

Got chewed out by a senior engineer for my linetype scaling yesterday

I was working on a set of site plans for a commercial project near downtown Austin and had all my hidden lines looking tight on screen. Guy walks over, takes one look at my plot, and says my linetype scale is for residential drawings, not civil. He was right though, I had been using the same global scale for everything since I started drafting 3 years ago. He showed me how to set separate object scales for different layers and it clicked why my plots always looked off. Made me wonder how many other basic settings I'm just accepting without question. Any of you guys had a veteran drafter call you out on something you thought was fine?

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the_kevin6d ago

Buddy of mine had been doing MEP drawings for about two years before a senior guy pointed out his text heights were all wrong for the plot scale. He had been manually scaling every single label instead of using annotative text and felt like an idiot for hours.

lane.angela6d ago

The thing nobody talks about is how much linetype scale screws with coordination between disciplines. I had a structural guy lose his mind because our civil hidden lines showed up as solid on his xref. Turns out he had his own LTSCALE override that was multiplying against ours and making everything look like a dotted mess. We spent a whole afternoon just comparing layer properties to figure out why.