Thought I was hot stuff with my AutoCAD layers until a senior guy from Detroit set me straight

I been drafting for about 5 years now and always organized my layers by color - red for dimensions, blue for text, that kind of thing. Thought it was super clean. Then last month we had this old timer from a Detroit firm come in to consult on a big project. He glanced at my screen and just goes "you're making it harder on yourself sorting by color instead of by function." He showed me how he groups everything by building system - structural on one layer group, mechanical on another. Took me a full week to switch over but now I see why he was right. Has anyone else had that moment where some old habit you thought was smart turned out to be backwards?

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brown.gavin26d ago

Did you ever figure out if your plot style table was messing with those color assignments too?

blake69126d ago

Nah man I'm still stumped on that one. I swapped the plot style table for a basic monochrome one and the color assignments still came out wrong on a few of my lineweights. Did you ever try using a .ctb file instead of .stb to see if that changes anything? I'm wondering if the issue is specific to one type of plot style table or if it's something deeper in the drawing setup.