Drawing Tags

May 1, 2008

Drawing tags shall be inserted from the Resource Browser and shall never be resized.

  • One tag shall be inserted per Viewport, in the Annotations of the viewport
  • Tags shall be Arial, plain style
  • The end of the tag line shall be anchored to a loci on the title block
  • You can add the following file to your resource browser favorites:
    • Y:002 CAD Standards\VectorWorks Defaults\Symbol Library\Drawing Tags.vwx

Text Standards

May 1, 2008

Fonts shall be:

  • Size 10 (w/ 10pt. spacing) MathSoftText BOLD for Notes and Dimensions
  • Size 18 Arial for Titles
  • The title block shall be set to Arial, plain style.

Text over Hatch

April 24, 2008

To have your Text read through your Hatch, select the text box and give it a solid white fill. Then, right click and select Send to..> Send to Front. Your text should now be surrounded by a white box the size of your text box.