From the course: BIM Manager: Managing CAD Standards
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Reviewing lineweights
From the course: BIM Manager: Managing CAD Standards
Reviewing lineweights
- [Narrator] Here's a popular one, lineweights. Again, NCS is specific. This is one area where CAD and BIM people like ourselves have tried to automate for years, right. The trick is add the component and have the lineweights correct. Here is also a large gap between the CAD layering process and the BIM object based process. So let's take a glance at the NCS lineweights and the two different processes between CAD and BIM. So to start with, let's look at the actual lineweights they have listed. Extra fine, .13 or .005 inches, that won't even show up. Fine, .007, getting a little heavier but still pretty light. Thin, .25 millimeter, it's starting to get there. Medium, this is basically where I start at .35, .14. For new line work, medium is good. Generally, I like to go with thin or fine for my existing. Now we start to get into wide, nice, thick, heavy, edge of wall type lines. Extra wide, now we're getting there. Double extra wide, .39 inches. Now we're getting into title block type…
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