A lead drafter told me my text heights were all over the place, now I use a sheet setup

Last Tuesday he pulled up my old drawing and said my 1/8" notes looked like a ransom note at a glance. Switched to a fixed text style with 3 heights for all annotations and it's cut my redline time in half, anyone else use a strict hierarchy or just eyeball it?

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mason49927d ago

Did you have to redo a bunch of old sheets when you made the switch, or just start fresh on new stuff? I feel your pain though, nothing stings like a drafter calling out your text at a glance. I ran into the same thing a few years back and it forced me to lock down my annotation styles too, still catch myself eyeballing the odd dimension note when I'm rushing. Strict hierarchy is the only way to go once you've been burned, it just makes the drawing read cleaner even before anyone prints it. Does your sheet setup have a standard for when you bump up to the bigger text size, or is that your call per view?

tylerlane26d ago

Actually it wasn't as bad as I thought. I only had to redo about a third of the old sheets, mostly the ones that were still getting revisions. The rest I just left alone since they were already approved and stamped. But you're right about the hierarchy thing, once you get burned by it once you never go back. For the text size bump, it's kind of a mix. We have a basic rule for notes that go under a certain section, they stay at the base size. But if a note is referencing something across multiple views or it's a critical callout, that's when I bump it up. It's not super formal, more like a feel thing based on what the drawing's trying to say. Probably not the cleanest system but it works so far.