Where do you dimension label your drawings?

[Anonymous]

I am wondering if you dim, label, note your drawings. Do you do it in on the view map or do you do it on the layout book? Do you add any notes to the layout book that pertain to the drawings?

[Anonymous]

"HAL9000" wrote:
I am wondering if you dim, label, note your drawings. Do you do it in on the view map or do you do it on the layout book? Do you add any notes to the layout book that pertain to the drawings?

Although you can make notations in many different areas, I find that I like to make most in the specific views of the view map, where I have more control over the view. Sometimes I'll make a minor last minute changes in the layouts. The problem with this is that notations then become a additional management issue if you need to change the location of whatever view that notation is associated with.

For this question it did not mater, but general it's best to list what version of AC your on & build number, along with what hardware your using.

[Anonymous]

Generally you should do as much as possible in the model (i.e. views). Minimise what you do in the layout book to title related stuff.

Here is a simple example why:
a. 20 story building
b. create 20 separate views - one for each floor plan. Each view should use the same layer combination (say "Floor Plan").
c. Place each on a separate layout.

Now, if you want to update what is shown on the floor plan, the simple way is to update the layer combination floor plan to show the additional layers. Updating the layer combination means ALL those views update.

If you had tinkered with the visible layers on each layout you are in for a nightmare if you wish to update views - you could potentially have to individually update each sheet, and potentially muck up what is shown on other sheets.

The only time you might want to play with layer combinations on layouts is to do with Revisions - but that is another issue I will not confuse you with, as GS has not addressed revision management at all.

[Anonymous]

i think the most compelling reason to annotate in the model is that you may have several different views that would require the annotation to be visible. this can easily be handled by controlling the layer visibility for each view. otherwise you would have to duplicate the annotation on separate layouts.