Drafting Etiquette: What's your favorite?

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

Could you file this under; "Dumb little things that make me angry but shouldn't."

Small frequently used Blocks that have embedded entities with forced colors, linetypes and any layer other 0.

When I find a block with forced colors and lintypes I think "The person that made this is:
A) Inexperienced and needs some serious training
B) must have had a very specific reason to do this and I should ask around
C) May have had a serious brain injury

When I find a block with entities on anything other than Layer Zero I think "The person that did this is:
A) A lazy #$!^@
B) in need of a serious brain injury!

[tinsmith]

We have a guy that draws on layer 0 & text....I love it!

[NukeCad]

When I find a block with entities on anything other than Layer Zero I think "The person that did this is:
A) A lazy #$!^@
B) in need of a serious brain injury!

Forgive me but;

In all the official AutoCAD manuals and literature that I have ever read, it clearly states that layer Zero (and defpoints) should NOT be used for drawing / dimensions / text / etc. and only by AutoCAD itself.

Has this changed with later revisions??

[VERYCIVILDRAFTER]

Layer zero is actually really handy when used as the one and only layer in an small uncomplicated block.

Doing so can prevent confusion with multiple copies of a block and then grouped (organized) by various layers. Like separating a pile of M&M's by color. (The M&M's being blocks and the color being a drawing layer)

When dozens of different blocks are inserted into a drawing having their base layer as Zero avoids excess layers being added to a drawing.

[Cad_Monkey]

My Favorites

• Circular referencing within Xrefs
• Random layers and Layer Names
• Titleblock or border in Model Space
• Exploded Hatchs
• Corrupting Drawings by copying from one drawing to the net to the next to the next and so on
• north arrow pointing down the page
• Unlocked Viewports
• leaders "Doubling Back" on themselves instead of changing which end of the text the leader comes out of or shifting the text
• drafters plotting and throwing plans back to me without "looking" over them
• Users not opening read only when just "Checking which layer that line was in"
• Rotated & Scaled Xrefs

That is my little whinge. along with users not "Maintaining" Drawings and then whinging about corruptions caused by that.