Calculating Floor Plan Areas & Lineweights etc...

professorA

Hi Guys,

I have a question on calculating floor plan areas. For first floors, second floors etc...when calculating the floor area, do you leave out the stairs and open voids, or do you include them?

And does anybody have any tips on lineweights, thicknesses, colours etc for different parts of plans, sections and elevations? I'm no good at it!
Would love one of my CAD drawings to look great when printed in Grayscale or Monocrome!

Any help much appreciated!
Thanks!

Zoolander1

Yes I'd generally calculate floor areas minus stairs.

Not sure what you're asking in the second part?? You can change the properties of lines etc in the Properties panel....or set up a layer with specific properties like colour, lineweight etc and assign lines etc to that layer.

ryano77

professorA wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I have a question on calculating floor plan areas. For first floors, second floors etc...when calculating the floor area, do you leave out the stairs and open voids, or do you include them?

And does anybody have any tips on lineweights, thicknesses, colours etc for different parts of plans, sections and elevations? I'm no good at it!
Would love one of my CAD drawings to look great when printed in Grayscale or Monocrome!

Any help much appreciated!
Thanks!

for black and white drawings i usually set all the colours to black and just specify different lineweights in the plot style settings for the various building elements. for example external walls and building outlines could be 0.30 lineweight and hatchings, internal elements, wall cavities, furniture, window frames etc could be 0.5. my advice would be to play around with them and print to pdf to see how they look.

Mellor

I'm guessing you made a typing error above, there is no what you have wall 0.3 and hatching, windows etc 0.5

ryano77

yeah other way around