Originally Posted by
civil3Dguide
The blocks are pretty much the standard in my fields, but more and more firms are trying to make their drawings look better, or different from other firms. This is ok for plotted sheets where there is a table of the symbols, but if that is missing or if they are sharing models, than there could be some issues knowing what a symbol represents. I do not know of a better selection of blocks that would make everyone happy. What is in NCS is possible the best options already. I am trying to work off of my memory however, and it fails me quite often. My personal opinion is that at least some of them could be updated as to not be so basic, but this could just be my personal preference and based off of some of the blocks I've worked with over the years.