Department of Veterans Affairs
National Cemetery System
(2). Line Weights: The use of line weights to construct details, sections, and
text shall be in accordance with accepted drafting practices. Most
applications are accomplished using four line weights: thin, medium, thick,
and extra thick. These four weights generally correspond to weight numbers
0, 1, 3, and 5. But a line weight of 5 might be drawn with different
thicknesses on different plotters.
The available line weights vary from 0 to 31. The table below shows the
plotted thicknesses for some commonly used line weights:
WEIGHTS
LEROY PEN
PLOTTED
(WT-)
EQUIVALENT
THICKNESS, INCHES
0
0000
0.005
1
000
0.010
2
0
0.015
3
1
0.020
4
2
0.025
5
3
0.030
8
4
0.045
10
6
0.055
16
7
0.080
(3). Colors: The allowable colors range from 0 to 255. Although 256 colors
are available, it is suggested that only the first 7 be used on contract
drawings. Intergraph allows these color values to be mapped to any color. It
is suggested that the following default colors be used.
PLOTTED
COLOR #
COLOR
0
black
1
blue
2
green
3
red
4
yellow
5
violet
6
orange
NCS CADD Standards Manual
August 1995
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