How To Read Drawings Properly. 3172021 A floor plan is carefully dimensioned to ensure that items such as walls columns doors windows openings stairs and other particulars are correctly located for construction. The top of the map should be North. An 80-foot interval simply means that each contour line is 80 vertical feet away from. It tells this with views which describe the shape of the object and with dimensions and notes which gives sizes and other information needed to make the object.
In such cases the floor plan is slightly out of true scale but this is acceptable. Remember the black head on the arrow. You can see that. Step 1 Look at the legend. When w see the rings drawing means ties drawing the ties bars diameter will be 3 sutar means 10 mm and having a 8-inch center to center spacing. Every fifth contour line is a thicker index lineAt some point along that line its exact elevation is listed.
They would be defined at the sheet template level not the design drawing that uses the template.
Unfortunately its not something that is taught very well in most engineering schoo. You can see that. Most of the pipe is laid out according to the slope and elevations indicated on the drawings. The title block contains information such as. It tells this with views which describe the shape of the object and with dimensions and notes which gives sizes and other information needed to make the object. 3172021 A floor plan is carefully dimensioned to ensure that items such as walls columns doors windows openings stairs and other particulars are correctly located for construction.