You’ll see that as we move from one graphic example to another, you will see symbol legends that span two decades and for the most part, they have the same value to them and none are any more correct than another. Yeah, I hear you but I don’t really care because the very idea of a legend is I can use whatever I want as long as I am consistent in its application. Internet: “Your “Room” tag is ridiculous … they’re obviously supposed to be rectangles …” Internet: “Hey Bob, circles are supposed to be used for door tags!” I can literally hear this in my mind right now: One of the things that I expect people to get worked up over is which geometric shapes are used in what capacity. In fact, I bet if you draft, your own symbol legend looks similar to my own … but I can tell you that I can look at this without any context and I would know that it was created in AutoCAD and not Revit simply because there is lineweight and hierarchy to the symbols and not the “one-size-fits-all” persona that modern-day symbols have to them. This is not the symbol legend that I created and used for that first plan – but it’s pretty close, and there is nothing truly magical about it. If I believe my own nomenclature, this drawing file was created approximately 20 years ago and I still think it looks pretty good … it certainly demonstrates my resolve towards the proper use of lineweight.įeel free to click on the image to open it up and see things in use a bit more clearly … Just to find this drawing took me days of digging through old hard drives followed by rebuilding my old *ctb pen table (only a few of probably even know what that is) just so I could create a pdf file to use as an image. As a result, when I look at it, I have a small amount of amusement at the time I spent making tree symbols, getting my lineweights where I wanted them to be, and I even prepared my own graphic symbols. This was the third house I owned and technically the first residential project I ever prepared drawings for in my life. The plan I am showing above has some sentimental value to me and it took a ton of time to make it available for today’s post. My First House Plan A201 – click to enlarge So why am I talking about them? Other than “ Why not?” I felt that it gave me another opportunity to climb aboard my soapbox and proselytize the importance of using lineweight in your drawings. Sure, every architectural firm in the world basically has all the same elements and the graphics don’t change all that much from firm to firm, but that shouldn’t come as a surprise – they wouldn’t work very well if there weren’t some sort of institutional standards in place. They are not very complicated items but shockingly I have some opinions on the matter. Time for the next installment of Architectural Graphics 101, and this time I decided to take a look at architectural symbols which are really wayfinding devices for our construction drawings.
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