Studio Drawing Standard
The line weights, hatches and title blocks every project in the office is drawn to.
By 2019 the office was fourteen people and no two of them drew a wall the same way. On site this costs money: a contractor who has to interpret a drawing will interpret it cheaply. We wrote down the standard instead of assuming it. Six line weights, eleven hatches, one title block, and a rule that every junction is drawn at 1:5 before it is priced.
It exists as a printed booklet and a template file, and every new member of the office is given both on their first day. Line weights are set so a sheet survives being photocopied twice and read in daylight on a site table. The hatches distinguish materials our masons actually use. It has been revised three times in six years, always downward, toward fewer rules.