Tiesto
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Originally posted by a_j_mair
i am planning on staying where i am for another year or 2 probably. my dad has his own architectural and development compnay so would like to work for/with him in the future, just want to get experience so i am fully confident and know things inside out and upside down.
and yes tiesto my drawings have lots of proper layers 
quite good at cad. however finding it hard to get motivation in ofice just now as job has no prospects apart from some experience
drawings always look prettier with people/cars etc in them, good for planning as it gives the drawings more life 
Planners and Local Authorities are the evil in my life at work 
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myke
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we can do up to 6k m^2 envelope area.
what that equates to floor area is obviously variable, but all of our work so far has been commercial buildings. schools, hospitals, office blocks etc.
would be cool if you would bare us in mind.
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Jules S
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Originally posted by myke
we can do up to 6k m^2 envelope area.
what that equates to floor area is obviously variable, but all of our work so far has been commercial buildings. schools, hospitals, office blocks etc.
would be cool if you would bare us in mind.
Will do...like I said im looking, will be funny if I get you some work through CS 
To the bloke above. So why do LA planners cause you so much grief? I know they can be a PITA, but they have a job to do...and guidelines to follow.
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Tiesto
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Originally posted by myke
we can do up to 6k m^2 envelope area.
what that equates to floor area is obviously variable, but all of our work so far has been commercial buildings. schools, hospitals, office blocks etc.
would be cool if you would bare us in mind.
Will do...like I said im looking, will be funny if I get you some work through CS
To the bloke above. So why do LA planners cause you so much grief? I know they can be a PITA, but they have a job to do...and guidelines to follow.
As they are not always consistent, will accept one scheme and another nearly exacly the same ask for changes, things they have accepted on another site (same county and even same sites sometimes)
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Jules S
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Heh?
Your in civils right? Or are your comments more landscape related?
Or maybe it SUDS?....either ways, liason with your LA drainage engineers should alleviate any problems prior to submission. All sites are specific to the percolation/available stormwater sewers....so Im afraid its part of the job mate.
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a_j_mair
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what tiesto says is correct. Building control is the worst for not reading drawings and spec properly and giving back building warrant points where half them are alreadyon drawing
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Tiesto
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Originally posted by Jules S
Heh?
Your in civils right? Or are your comments more landscape related?
Or maybe it SUDS?....either ways, liason with your LA drainage engineers should alleviate any problems prior to submission. All sites are specific to the percolation/available stormwater sewers....so Im afraid its part of the job mate.
Yea Civils, only restriction we have really on the drainage is the discharge rates, however as you pointed out have sites where soakaways or on-site storage is needed. The water authority engineer's are more helpful than the Local authorrites where things always need changing to get it adopted under S38.
But as you said its part of the job and have come to put up with it, but at times it can get abit annoying.
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3CorsaMeal
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Originally posted by myke
if any of you architects need to have air tightness testing carried out in the south after april with the new part L regs, then get in touch.
this is part of the SAP rating etc isn't it?
i always guestimate at 100%
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3CorsaMeal
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Originally posted by Tiesto
P.S. - I have noticed alot of architects drawings we get are shite, all drawing work seems to be done on about 5 layers, and so is a shite job sorting it out getting things onto right layers so can freeze them off. Hope yours aint like that
[Edited on 20-03-2006 by Tiesto]
so true
i reckon the new generation of us are setting the way 
i did the same editting to a dwg as a older chap who came from paper and drawing boards, took me 2-3hrs, took him 19hrs
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Greasemonkey
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Im an architect technician i have
ONC in Building Studies
Halfway through my HNC
Been doing the job 6 years, i run jobs on site etc
im 24 this year
and i get paid 15K
its a fucking joke
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3CorsaMeal
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15k 
thats bad, i get quite a bit more than that and haven't got any proper qualifications
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Tiesto
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Originally posted by Greasemonkey
Im an architect technician i have
ONC in Building Studies
Halfway through my HNC
Been doing the job 6 years, i run jobs on site etc
im 24 this year
and i get paid 15K
its a fucking joke
Which company you work for?
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Jules S
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Well, ive interviewed another three today (architects)
And all six so far (3x architects, 2 senior assistants, 1 technologist) didnt know how to create a layer, let alone assign layer properties 
what gets my goat is people who layer drawings but dont assign 'colours by layer' grrrrrrrr. cue lots of filtering to get some normality.
For those of you who get problems with building control submissions.....ive found a decent regs submission report works wonders. Once youve done one (time consuming) they really help, cos the officers dont have to trawl through the drawings to check compliance
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Tiesto
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Originally posted by Jules S
Well, ive interviewed another three today (architects)
And all six so far (3x architects, 2 senior assistants, 1 technologist) didnt know how to create a layer, let alone assign layer properties
what gets my goat is people who layer drawings but dont assign 'colours by layer' grrrrrrrr. cue lots of filtering to get some normality.
For those of you who get problems with building control submissions.....ive found a decent regs submission report works wonders. Once youve done one (time consuming) they really help, cos the officers dont have to trawl through the drawings to check compliance
Another one is linetypes not by layer, and hatching which has been exploded
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a_j_mair
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nothing worse than exploded hatching
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Jules S
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nothing worse than exploded hatching
True. Cant see the point in exploding hatch tbh.
i bollocked a techie the other day about linetype scaling...he then enlightened me about the psltscale variable
I felt like a right knobber
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a_j_mair
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Originally posted by Jules S
the psltscale variable
the what
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Jules S
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I think its that....not at work PC so cant say exactly. will check and post morrow.
A simple variable. its can be toggled to (0) or (1)
When set you can mess about with individual linetype porperties in model space, and have variable linetype scales within a layer.
Long and short is that the linetypes look and plot the same in modelspace and paperspace. WYSIWYG.
makes life real easy
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a_j_mair
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you not just click LWT tab at bottom of screen for that
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Jules S
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you not just click LWT tab at bottom of screen for that
Not sure...will try that thanks mate
TBH cad stuff takes a bit of a back seat for me now. I used to focus on it greatly when I started, but in all honestly its a tool to get the job done. These days (on subsription) i generally dont upgrade our PC's/server half way through a project, so its easy to miss the newer commands/upgrades.
Thanks for the advice though....i remember a bloke giving me a single command (updating xref layers IIRC) and it saved me loads of time.
Always good to share at the end of the day
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Tiesto
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Originally posted by a_j_mair
you not just click LWT tab at bottom of screen for that
LWT just changes thickness of the lines to show on screen so can see what it will print out as. If you type LTS in and type in a vlaue will change all the linetypes - though i always set it to 1. Also if you type LT and de-tick the box with "use paper for scaling units...." will show how it will print out and not keep changing when zooming about. Can also change global scale on that screen.
Maybe you all know that but no harm in sharing
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