Just realized I've been setting my line weights wrong for years

I was working on a set of foundation plans for a house in Austin last week, and the lead engineer asked me why my rebar looked thicker than the footing outline. I had been using the same 0.35mm weight for both, thinking it was fine. He pulled out an old hand-drafted sheet from 1998 and showed me the clear difference. Has anyone else had a moment like this that made you go back and check your whole template?

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morgan_jenkins904d ago

Our office had a whole audit after a junior drafter accidentally plotted a set of civil sheets at the wrong scale. The contour lines looked fine on screen, but the printed plan showed a 5-foot grade change across a parking lot that was supposed to be flat. We spent a week checking every single pen table and scale in our standard details.

sarah_johnson463d ago

Did your team end up making a checklist for plotting? We caught a similar mistake last year and now we have a printed sign-off sheet. The person who draws the file and a second person both have to check the scale and layer settings before anything goes to print. It sounds like a pain but it saves so much time fixing huge errors later.