

When you open up one of our drawing templates, like Hayne-A-FP01-template.dwt, you will see a variety of information already loaded. A project requires multiple drawing types including Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevations, Building Sections, etc. The AutoCAD folder is broken down further into our standard Pens, Hatches, Symbols, etc.

(For some great digital references check out the Life of An Architect’s Graphic Standards series)
AUTOCAD DRAWING TEMPLATE MANUAL
Our Drawing Standards Manual is an ever-evolving document and as we find new Graphic Standard References we like, we file the information and add it to the Manual. We also, on occasion, use SketchUP (see Mon-o-coque). We are in the process of transitioning to mostly REVIT, but AutoCad is currently our main program. In our Drawing Standards folder we have sub- folders for each program that we use in-house.

AUTOCAD DRAWING TEMPLATE CODE
It shouldn’t matter if the project manager is drawing it or the summer intern the output should meet the quality and graphic standards.Īs part of our office organization we have an Administration Folder which houses our Office Standards, Marketing information, Code Requirements and Forms by city, CSI Library information and most importantly our DRAWING STANDARDS. Because of that, it’s important to have functional drawing templates to maintain office standards. Efficiency if key for a small firm and drawing is what we do, so we should be good at it.
