![]() ![]() Sheet Information is typically found in the bottom-most corner of every title block and generally contains information that is specific to that particular sheet rather than the entire set. ![]() I’ve color-coded three examples here but let’s start with the one from my current office – BOKA Powell. You might see an example that has only 5 of these things but 4 or less would be “finding a leprechaun sitting on a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow” rare. For the most part, every title block has the same 6 things on it regardless of who made it or how old it is. So let’s get to the actual ingredients that make up a title block. Of course, now that we are printing out sheets less often, this might not be as important as it once was but I still see contractors using full-size sets on the job site. If you number vertically starting on the right, you can flip the page partially open. Since printed out drawings are typically stapled along the left-hand side of the page, it would be better to fill of the sheet on the side opposite the staples just so you don’t have to open the set wide up in order to see drawing 04 in the corner by the staple. While I will admit that what I am about to say might be some outdated thinking, at times I still embrace the old ways. Some people might think that – just like reading a book or anything else – you start in the upper left-hand corner and work your way across the page to the right until they reach the end at which point you drop down a row and continue (much like how you are reading this sentence). My preference is that the drawing numbers start in the bottom right-hand corner and work their way up the page until they reach the top, and at that point, you go back down to the bottom of the page – essentially one column over and continue working your way up the page again. I have added a few guidelines on the image above to show that all of these drawings are lined up with one another for the most part – it just visually keeps the drawing organized and tidy in its appearance … but we need to talk a minute about how to identify those drawings – why is detail 04 located where it is? For example, detail 01 “Plan Detail” can be found in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet but if I wanted to reference that drawing elsewhere in the set, I would call it out as “o1/A2.82” which not only identifies the detail number but also the page in which you can find it. Most architectural sheets have more than one drawing on them and in order to assist with referencing their location elsewhere, most will have individual numbers. First off is the numbering of the drawings on the page. I am going to break this Architectural Graphics 101 post up into just a few small parts – some of which I have skimmed over in the past but it’s worth repeating. ![]() I am also going to take a few moments to introduce the concept of how you number these drawings (i.e. In just about every conceivable way, this title block has all the parts that you would expect to find on a drawing – but maybe you don’t know what those are. I have been beaten up for so long on the use of chisel fonts that I’ve decided to leave that alone (for now). They haven’t asked, and I haven’t offered … but other than pen weight and arrowheads, most of the drawing conventions that are in place align with my own thoughts on the matter. For the record, nobody at my current office wants my opinion about how our drawings are laid out. I thought I would start with a title block from my current office – BOKA Powell. It’s been 3 years and 16 days since my last architectural graphics post and just like the last time I had a steaming hot bowl of Wolf brand chili, that’s too long. After a very long hiatus, Architectural Graphics 101 is rising from the ashes like the proverbial Phoenix. Architectural Graphics are a topic that it seems everybody has an interest in discussing – or at the very least, looking at for comparison purposes.
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