Detail Formatting

We started off with a standard box size of 6 1/8" wide by 5 3/4" long. We can fit 6 of these boxes in a row on a 30x42 sheet. There are some details in our library that were drawn at a larger scale than the rest, so that called for us to create a larger box size. Initially, we said it would be best for the new box to be 7 37/256" wide by 5 3/4" long because that would fit 5 boxes in a row perfectly on a 36x48 sheet. We then realized that we did the calculation to fit on a 36x48 sheet. Our projects tend to be on 30x42 sheets. With this in mind, we re-adjusted the new box size to be 7 45/128" wide by 5 3/4" long. The math behind our method takes the total length of 6 boxes to be placed on the 30x42 sheet (36.75") then dividing that number by 5 to get the width of the new box size (7 45/128"). 

Details Boxes

Why:

Have a known maximum number of details that can fit on a sheet.

Details must be interchangeable on a sheet with an equivalent size and shape consistently

To uniformly fit a specific number of details on a sheet allows users to mix and match details on a sheet without having to reformat the detail or have the postion of the detail depend on avaiable white space position on the sheet