Originally Posted by
jblock
I brought this subject up a few months ago and it was treated like a big surprise and a secret. I had to research the web and find color lists that are from the AIA standards which ADT objects come in on. (The AIA wants to sell you that list with their book that costs a lot.) I found some lists on web search engines. I tried using the AIA ctb with the objects by style and some sketching by lineweight. They came in looking like children's drawings, huge lines, no style. I reworked all the lineweights and added a few more subtle lineweights.
Some of us actually draw schematic drawings or presentation drawings before we know what our project will look like. Out of the box looks like ****. I am trying to set-up new standards at our office and find the only way to make these drawings look attractive is to change every object's display to by layer and put them on different layers to get a hand-drawn proper 'Architect look'.
How do you do those sketches in ADT? This is very frustrating. What am I doing wrong? We find doing everything ADT impossible and complicated. I draw plans in ADT and use detail components, and even then I can't find the proper sizes of structural members, etc.