What is your standard sheet size?

[GreyHippo]

We use 24"x36"

[rkmcswain]

24x36 (40%)
22x34 (40%)
Half size of each of the above (15%)
30x42 and 48x36 (5%)

[Glenn Pope]

We moved from 24"x36" to 22"x34" so to have perfect 11"x17" half size.

[tedg]

24x36 (20%)
22x34 (60%)
Half size of each of the above (15%)
30x42 and 48x36 (5%)
We do allot of work using other clients' titleblocks so it depends....
But RK's looks allot like what we use but with a few percent (+/-) changes.

[michael.12445]

30" x 42", and 15" x 21" for half-size. We also use 11" x 17" for check plots.

[Andy.88917]

I do full size and half size for EVERY JOB...

Half Size:
11x17 = 75%
18x24 = 25%

Full Size:
18x24 = 5%
24x36 = 60%
30x42 = 25%
36x48 = 10%

[RobertB]

Since we are a consulting firm, that decision is made by the architects, not us.

Sheet sizes I've needed to accommodate (full- and half-size) include:

22x34
24x36
28x40
30x42
30x48
34x44
36x48
A0

[TerribleTim]

You're gonna love this. For some reason that stems from before my time here, we use a 22x34 size layout plotted on 24x36 with 1" of blank sheet around the edges so that we can plot true half size on 11x17. I don't know who created this system or what the real reasoning was but I can't seem to get them to change either. If plotting true half size on 11x17 is that big a deal why not just use 22x34 for full size? they fit on my desk even better than the 24x36 sheets.

We do some work with a sister firm and use 30x42 for that stuff. Then I have to do some trick stuff to plot true half size in house since we dont normally stock any paper for that.

[RICHARD_JONES]

Civil, Structural, .....plans, elevations, detail sheets...:
24x36 (80%)
11x17 (19%)
8 1/2x11 (1%)

Piping iso's: 11x17 (100%)

P&ID's: drawn with a 22x34 border but almost exclusively plotted 11x17 for reference books.

[Ryder76]

Structural drawings are drawn to scale and plotted on 11x17
Electrical drawings not to scale and plotted on 11x17.

I have worked in Piping and Electrical for the past ten years and plot on 11x17 paper. No need to buy expensive plotters.

[RICHARD_JONES]

Structural drawings are drawn to scale and plotted on 11x17
Electrical drawings not to scale and plotted on 11x17.

I have worked in Piping and Electrical for the past ten years and plot on 11x17 paper. No need to buy expensive plotters.

Just curious, are your drawings setup for 22x34 and you just only plot 11x17? Or are your drawings setup for 11x17 right from the start? For example your plotted text height for 11x17 sheets equals 3/32”?

[Ryder76]

I don't do the structural dwgs I only do the electrical. My border in modelspace is 23x35(24x36 with 1" paper space edge) (no I didn't set it up that way) it gets printed on 11x17 paper. None of my stuff is drawn to scale and even though the structural drawings are 1:1 inside the file they never get printed to a paper size that you could slap a scale on the paper and take the dimension from it.

The structural guys have an automated drawing starter that allows them to select the scale they will work in, but what it really does is setup the border to fit the 1:1 drawing inside modelspace. They are drawing in modelspace at 1:1 and the border is scaled from 23x35 to the necessary size to fit the drawing.

Soooo:

Sheet Size: 23x35 230x350 322x490
Dimscale: 1 10 14
Text Height: .125 1.25 1.75
Ltscale: 0.5 5.0 7.0

and so on.

This is a manufacturing environment and the need for "truely scaled on the paper" drawings isn't necessary. We do have a machine that we send the cad file to that converts to G Codes and punches out the steel/ sheet metal. The paper copies of the drawings go to the customer in 11x17 PDF's and that is the format given in the manual shipped with the product.

[RICHARD_JONES]

That works, thanks for taking the time to reply.

[Ryder76]

No prob - glad to help