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CAD Standards – Text Font Info

CADDManager on September 2nd, 2009
Here is some possible info you may want to add to your CAD Standard on text issues:
The Standard Text size shall be 3/32”. All text shall be UPPERCASE. G-ANNO is the general layer for all text. The color
shall be 7.
All text shall use the font “ROMANS” or “ROMAND” where a bold font is desired. All general text shall be a plotted
height of 3/32” (equivalent to “10 point”) which reproduces and reduces well on printers, plotters, scanners, faxes and
photocopiers.
The ARIAL font shall be used for the Sheet No. in the Title Block as this font best differentiates between a number 1 (one)
and the letter I (eye) and will ease the possible confusion between the Discipline Designator for “Interiors” and the number
One. Sheet number text shall be 3/8”.
Care should be taken when using True Type fonts. This would apply to custom logos/names and signage details for
example. The intent is to insure that all parties receiving electronic files need not load any additional fonts. To do this you
may want to consider “drawing” the fancy text.
Text heights for Titles shall be 1/4” with a ROMAND font. Text height for Matchline text shall be 3/16”.
All Text Styles shall define the font with a Height of “0″, a Width Factor of .80 and an Oblique Angle of “0″. Do not
define the text height in the Text Style.
Text color/pen widths for each text height will be determined based on Standard Pen Table and Layer Names etc.
TEXTFILL variable should be set to “ON”
I think that standard text heights for a full scale drawing should be 3/32”. It is readable to most people on full size and half size drawings.
Text sizes are to be set at the time the text is placed with the MTEXT, DTEXT and TEXT commands. This allows for simple text sizing
and manipulation, without the need to create Styles for each text size. I have seen some firms use .1 – it is easier to type in and closely
mimics a 3/32″ height.
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4 Responses to “CAD Standards – Text Font Info”
1.
rajitha
September 13th, 2009 at 6:19 AM
thank you sir,

this is help full in cad…
I have one doubt in this if we applied 3/32″ height in dimstyle and it is not accepting that 3/32″ it is taking as 0.09375 why it is
taking like that….
2.
CADDManager
September 13th, 2009 at 6:56 AM
It may be that you have your drawing UNITS set to decimal. If that is the case, you can change it to architectural. Or you could
keep you UNITS set to decimal and use “1″ since that is a lot easier to type than 0.09375
3.
KirkUrCaptn
August 26th, 2011 at 12:03 PM
How do you feel about using annotative settings to manipulate text.
I do use a standard 3/32″ on drawing labels but I use annotative settings to bring it into paper space in scale. Is this an acceptable
method?
4.
CADDManager
August 26th, 2011 at 12:20 PM
I think that is a proper way to do it, but can you tell me more on what you are doing?
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TEXTFILL variable should be set to “ON”

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4 Responses to “CAD Standards – Text Font Info”

thank you sir,

How do you feel about using annotative settings to manipulate text.

Too long to remember (48%, 102 Votes)

I have never drafted by hand (17%, 37 Votes)

More than a year ago (15%, 31 Votes)

I still draft by hand all the time (13%, 27 Votes)

Last Month (3%, 7 Votes)

More than two months ago (3%, 6 Votes)

More than 6 months ago (1%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 213

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