Location / Block Plan UK

[Ollyharper]

Hi guys,

 

I'm a first year studying architecture and have been asked to produce a Sit Location Plan at 1:1250 with red line demise, scale bar, north Point & street names.

 

Also, I've been asked to produce a proposed block plan at 1:500 with Soft and Hard landscaping proposals if you have any, roof plan , boundary line, north point and scale bar.

 

I'm fine with downloading the OS map from digimaps to DWG format for AutoCad, but after that i'm unsure as to how I get down to the black and white version of the plans which will look something like this:

 

http://postimg.org/image/b5s6asp3p/

 

Thanks in advance with your help!

 

 

Olly

[eldon]

As I cannot access such a drawing, you would have to post the drawing file that you have downloaded before anyone can give a meaningful reply.

[Ollyharper]

Sorry about that! Didn't foresee that being a problem!

 

I've attached the DWG file for the map.

 

Thanks,

 

Olly

mastermap-topo_932386_0.dwg

[ReMark]

Freeze layers that have the solid hatching on it.

 

[Ollyharper]

Thanks man!

[ReMark]

I suppose you'll want the houses to stand out from the rest of the linework. Should that be the case assign a lineweight (ex. 0.30mm) to the Building_Line_Outline layer and turn lineweights on.

 

[Ollyharper]

I'm having another problem now

 

I've scaled the whole model space to be 1:1 using a reference line with dimensions I knew were correct 1:1.

 

However, when I go to the layout tab and try to scale the model to 1:1250 it's scaling it waaaaay lower than intended and is zoomed in way more then I need it to.

 

Any ideas guys?

 

Thanks a bunch!

 

Olly

[eldon]

Why are you scaling the drawing? It is provided in metre units, and you should not be scaling Ordnance Survey drawings in Model Space unless you know what you are doing.

 

If you are in Layout, then you should be scaling to 1000:1250, because AutoCAD default metric units are millimetres.

[eldon]

I think that you may be using an Imperial template instead of a Metric template. This does produce unnecessary complications.