Setting Up Your Drawing
After you have pondered each of the issues discussed so far, it is time to set up your drawings. You must follow a sequential set of steps to determine how you can accomplish this task. If you use the following steps, you will avoid revising text sizes, drawing configurations, and a number of other complications later in a project:
Determining paper size
Determining drawing scale
Developing title blocks
Determining units and angles
Determining Paper Size
The first and foremost determination you must make is the final plot size of your drawings. If you plot your drawings to paper, the paper sizes that your plotter handles define your options for the drawing size. Using a mock-up process—whether a formal one, such as the ...
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