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Door and Window Schedules: How to Set Them Up in an Architectural Drawing Set
A practical breakdown of door and window schedules: the heading, mark and notes format from the US National CAD Standard, the columns a...
Sinan Ozen9 Mins read
Dimensioning Architectural Drawings: Rules for Placing Dimensions Builders Can Trust
How dimension lines, extension lines and terminators are drawn, how chain, baseline and running dimension strings differ, how to dimension a floor plan...
Sinan Ozen9 Mins read
Scale Figures and Entourage: Putting People in Architectural Drawings
What scale figures are for, how to size and place them correctly, how to keep entourage consistent with the drawing, and where to...
Sinan Ozen10 Mins read
CAD Layer Standards: How to Organise a Drawing So Others Can Use It
What a layer standard does, how NCS and ISO 13567 naming works, which properties belong on the layer rather than the object, and...
Sinan Ozen9 Mins read
Hatch Patterns and Poché: How Drawings Show What Things Are Made Of
The difference between poché and hatching, the standard material patterns, how hatch behaves as scale changes, and how to control it in AutoCAD...
Sinan Ozen10 Mins read
Title Blocks and Sheet Layout: What Every Drawing Sheet Must Carry
What belongs in a title block, how drawing numbering works, how revisions are controlled, standard sheet sizes, and the status codes that decide...
Sinan Ozen10 Mins read
Architectural Line Weights: The Hierarchy That Makes a Drawing Readable
What line weight communicates, the standard pen widths and line types, how the hierarchy shifts between plan, section and elevation, and how to...
Sinan Ozen10 Mins read
Architectural Drawing Scales: 1:50, 1:100 and When to Use Each
What drawing scales mean, the metric and imperial scales architects use, which scale belongs on which drawing, and the mistakes that make a...
Sinan Ozen10 Mins read
