194 n The Art of Software Modeling
a good idea to purchase a wide-carriage printer, many of which sell for under
$5,000. Typically, 24" × 36" printouts are good for small team discussions,
but these printers can create prints as large as 36" × 60" to place on a wall
during a model review.
If the modeling team is absolutely constrained to 8½"
× 11" model views,
either by cost of the plotter or by an unenlightened management decision,
then the techniques described in the previous section for segmenting the
model become even more critical. To maintain a legible size (e.g., a minimum
of 10 pt. text) it will be necessary to divide the model views across multiple
pages. e challenge will be to connect the views in such a way to maintain ...