{"id":869,"date":"2009-06-24T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2009\/06\/addressing-borders-in-your-cad-standard\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T05:34:49","slug":"addressing-borders-in-your-cad-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2009\/06\/addressing-borders-in-your-cad-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Borders in your CAD Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are writing your CAD Standard you should consider including a lengthy explanation of your Border and Title Block file.  Take the time to make sure that everyone knows where the correct files are and what goes where.  Don&#8217;t let the project team get creative on the location of standard information.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let them just copy the border from the last project they worked on.<\/p>\n<p>Show example screen shots of each area of the border and define what goes where.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/border.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-870\" title=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/border-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/border-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/border.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Showing users exactly what they expect to see when a Title Block is added and filled in will help tremendously.  Don&#8217;t leave it to them to guess.\u00a0 Make notations as to what each area of the Title Block is supposed to contain and convey.<\/p>\n<p>Include exact fonts and sizes for all text that the users may be placing.<\/p>\n<p>Example text that could be included in your standard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When referenced, the insert point for the titleblock\/border file is 0,0,0 in Paper Space.<\/p>\n<p>A titleblock attribute text block will be provided. Included in this block will be the typical symbol blocks and text styles required to annotate the plot\/sheet file.<\/p>\n<p>Titleblock entities will be placed the G-ANNO-TTLB layers.  Typical layers for the titleblock will be G-TTLB, G-TTLB-ANNO, G-TTLB-KPLN &amp; G-TTLB-GRID.<\/p>\n<p>The key plan will be located in a space above the Issue Block area. Place the key plan on layer G-TTLB-KPLN.<\/p>\n<p>Matchlines will be placed in Paper Space. It may be necessary to also place matchlines in model files, so other disciplines can find the matchlines.<\/p>\n<p>North arrow and scale(s) will placed in the lower right hand area of the drawing area, just left of the Sheet number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are writing your CAD Standard you should consider including a lengthy explanation of your Border and Title Block file. Take the time to make sure that everyone knows where the correct files are and what goes where. Don&#8217;t let the project team get creative on the location of standard information.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-standards","category-journals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}