Topic: Am I the only person to draw to snap?

[JCTER]

I see that it depends on what you draw.
In my case, houses mostly, there are times when I place things in fractions of units.
Example is when a wall turns 45 degrees the measurement to the turn is likely to be 1/2 or 3/4 of an inch / unit.
Otherwise I try to stay on 1 inch / unit increments.

If you draw things way out of scale and not at all representative of how they will be built and with no regard to actual lengths and distances, then it doesn't matter - all that matters is that it look pretty.

|------|  this line is a pipe spool 20 feet long
|--+--|  this line is a pipe spool with something in the middle that's 5 feet long.

Oh well

[CAB]

James,
I must need another cup this morning because you lost me.

[dgorsman]

I see that it depends on what you draw.
In my case, houses mostly, there are times when I place things in fractions of units.
Example is when a wall turns 45 degrees the measurement to the turn is likely to be 1/2 or 3/4 of an inch / unit.
Otherwise I try to stay on 1 inch / unit increments.

If you draw things way out of scale and not at all representative of how they will be built and with no regard to actual lengths and distances, then it doesn't matter - all that matters is that it look pretty.

|------|  this line is a pipe spool 20 feet long
|--+--|  this line is a pipe spool with something in the middle that's 5 feet long.

Oh well

Sounds like a typical piping iso to me.   

[jonesy]

On the rare occasion I need to draw a schematic, I most definately use grid and snap. As you say, it makes it so much easier to draw and space out... I just wish the people that amended my drawings had continued to use it :pissed:

[JCTER]

James,
I must need another cup this morning because you lost me.

Mainly talking about piping isos.  As in Isometrics.  They are purely symbolic in nature.  They have symbols for all the hardware/weapons/mechanisms like valves and elbows and tees.  The length of those lines are also moot.  I could draw the line 5 units long, but it could represent a 18'-6 3/4"' flange-ended section... it doesn't matter.  They are fabrication drawings only and the dimensions are not associative in any way.

It's just another form of schematic like for plumbing riser diagrams or electrical panel diagrams or something. 

I have only needed to do ISOs once, and I don't want to do them again.  I do Process-Flow-Diagrams often though, but thankfully those are easy.  They just show an "order of operations" so to speak, and you insert symbols that represent tanks, pumps, loadout connections, etc.  Then you just literally "connect the dots" with straight, organized lines, and in no way representative of how it will be piped up in reality.  So that is another time where SNAP and GRID help keep things organized and professional looking.