(Anyone who has been to one of my seminars knows my whole spiel on this.)
Matthew,
Could you share a little more about your pens spiel?
I know of several large firms that have their pens set up like that but I never learned enough about it to like it.
I made up my own pen setting which work great for me but I may like your settings better if I under stood it better, and I would like to become more professional in the way I do things.
I have my pens set up by color in horizontal rows top to bottom. Each virtical row has a pen weight that corrisponds to its pen number. pen 1 is .1mm, pen 2 is .2mm, pen 3 is .3mm and so on up to 10.
That way I have the choice of any pen size with any color and I always know by the last digit of the pen number what the size is..pen 102 would be .2mm, pen 34 would be .4mm and so on. It is very easy to set the pens up like this, just select all of the pens in a row and make them all the color of your choice. Select all of the pens in a column and give them a pen weight for that row. Row 1=.1mm, Row 2=.2mm...I use mm because it corresponds to the old Pentel stuff I used on mylar. I have no idea what size a .4 pt is.
I usualy have my background color set to that drafting-board-green color I have on my Mutoh or coffee with cream since I don't draw lines of that color very often. Also, sometimes for prelims I place a fill with a grid of 1'x1' behind the floor plans to provide the person reviewing them with a scale instead of a lot of dimensions which may be only approximate at this point... You can use a solid fill behind the intire drawing and cut some holes in it with the grids turned on so the grid will only show up in specifc locations instead of over the whole sheet.
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