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ΚΟΙΝΗ ∆ΙΑ∆ΙΚΑΣΙΑ
AUTOCAD GRAPHIC CHARTER
COMMON PROCEDURE

B- 4/12/2009 Modification on paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4 & Appendices EKA HCO PDA

Modifications after RACE comments on

A- 7/3/2008 MPO HCO AVE
DWG files saving , 2D/3D, layers'names

A2 21/11/2007 Change of QA references and responsibilities HCO HCO PMO

A1 25/10/2007 First Issuance HCO LAG PMO

DATE OF APPROVED
REV MODIFICATION ORIGINATED VERIFIED IE
ISSUE (Contractor)

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Doc Type Location Nature of Works Structure ident. ORIGINATOR Phase SERIAL NUMBER REV

COMP.REF: SCALE:
AKF G 00022A- 22/04/08
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 – SCOPE................................................................................................................................3
2 – REFERENCES.......................................................................................................................3
3 – RESPONSIBILITIES ..............................................................................................................3
4 – DRAWING PRODUCTION STANDARDS ...................................................................................4

Appendix 1: Title Blocks

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1 – SCOPE
This procedure is aimed to define the parameters of EKPPT Project design and construction
documents set up with AUTOCAD software version 2004 and ulterior.

It defines the minimum parameters that have to be set up in the software, so that the documents
established by the different designers and work entities involved in the EKPPT Project are coherent in
between them, and have uniform appearance from conception to archiving.

The numbering, filing, issuance, approval and transmittal process of those documents are defined in
the following associated procedures:

- “Management of Project Documents”, AKQ G 00001,

- “Numbering of documents”, AKQ G 00002
- “Controlled Documents”, AKQ G 00005
- “Organisation and control of Design activities”, AKQ G 00010
- “Approval and transmittal of Design documents” AKQ G 00011

2 – REFERENCES
NORMS / CONTRACTS:

Concession Agreement,

Design and Construction Contract,

ISO 9001, 2008: "Quality Management System"

CJV MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES:

Project Management Scheme, AKQ G 10000

Project Quality Plan, AKQ G 00100

ASSOCIATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES:

Management of Project Documents, AKQ G 00001

Numbering of documents, AKQ G 00002,

Controlled Documents, AKQ G 00005,

Organisation and control of design activities, AKQ G 00010

Approval and Transmittal of Design documents, AKQ G 00011

3 – RESPONSIBILITIES
3.1. DRAFTSMAN
Any draftsman involved in the Project in CJV structure, Allocated works structure, or
Subcontractor’s and Designers.
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- Implements this procedure.

- Assures himself he has the necessary training to the correct use of this procedure and
asks if need be for the necessary means and supports.
- Verifies the application of the present procedure when issuing a document.
- Prevents any electronic or hard copy transmittal of documents that do not comply with
this procedure.
- Reports any discrepancy to the CJV Technical Manager.

3.2. DOCUMENT CONTROL

- Checks that incoming drawings are created following this procedure and properly
recorded in the Document Storage System.
- Reports any discrepancy to the QES Manager.

3.3. TECHNICAL MANAGER or nominee

- Revises this procedure according to the needs of Technical Department and Construction.

3.4. QES MANAGER or nominee

- Approves and audits the implementation of this procedure.

4 – DRAWING PRODUCTION STANDARDS

4.1 – ELECTRONIC FORMATS TO BE RESPECTED
The exploitation systems to be used are WINDOWS 98 or 2000 or XP.

The graphic files are in format AutoCAD version 2004 (or ulterior) in English, with a DWG
extension.

4.2 – FORMATS, LANGUAGE, and TITLES OF DRAWINGS

All drawings shall be bi-lingual English and Greek, with precedence of the English.

All drawings shall be made with respect to the ISO standards for formats.

Only ISO A0, A1, A3, and A4 formats shall be used in the EKPPT Project. Any other
different paper such as A1 plus…. etc, will not be accepted.

For Road Design:

Plan Views and Longitudinal Sections shall be made in ISO A1 or ISO A3 formats
according to the requested scales.

Transversal sections, typical cross-sections and details shall be made in ISO A3 or ISO A4
formats according to the requested scales.

A specific zone shall be reserved at the bottom part of each drawing for the “Title Block”, which
will be composed of the title and number of the document (according to procedure AKQ G
00002 “Numbering of documents”), and some blocks defining the Originator, the revision and
date, the title of the design, etc.

The “Title blocks” to be used are given as samples according to the format of the document in
Appendix 1 of this procedure. The corresponding DWG files are part of this procedure.
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4.3 – NAMING OF DRAWING ENTITIES

4.3.1 – General principle and naming of drawing files

It is strictly forbidden to place two documents in the same file (except particular cases
explain hereafter), or to use the layer activation utilities to plot different documents.

The name of the DWG files for electronic transmission shall be structured following the
common procedure AKQ G 00002 “Numbering of documents”.

The name of the file permits to identify the document completely. It must be written
without blanks, dots or any separator.

Example: RACP01029A-.dwg

4.3.2 – Name of layers (obligatory)

Layer name prefix:

The name of layer shall consist of the following characters:

X X X -
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ……

Characters 1 to 3 shall always define the Originator and are the same as those
used in the “Numbering of documents” procedure digits,

The fourth (4) character is the separator “ _ “,

The following characters 5, 6, 7….. will be defined by the Originator and will be
explained in the layer’s name table.

Layer’s name definition table:

The proper name of each layer shall be in English and shall be as short as possible. It
is defined by the Originator (characters 5, 6 etc), but its definition shall be described in
the layer’s name definition table.

Each Originator shall prepare his own layer’s name table which shall accompany every
official submission of design documents. In the layers’ name table the definitions shall
be in English language at least. Non official submission will be accepted without the
proper layer’s name table.

NOTE: All drawings shall be purged of un-used excess layers before saving and exiting.
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4.3.3 – Name of blocks (optional)

In case that there is a need for creation of blocks the following system is proposed to
be followed, consisting of ten (10) characters:

X X X - X X X - X X
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Characters 1 to 3 define the Originator and are the same as those used in the
“Numbering of documents” procedure digits.

The fourth (4) character is the separator “ _ “,

Characters 5 to 7 define the nature of work and are the same as those used in
the “Numbering of documents” procedure digits (example: RDW for road
geometrical design, HYD for hydraulic, TOP for survey and topographic elements,
etc.),

The eighth (8) character is the separator “ _ “,

Characters 9 to 10 indicate the type of view according to the following principles:
− PV for plan view
− TS for transversal section
− LS for longitudinal section
− CS for cross-section

The block name following this prefix shall identify clearly the content of the block
structures information.

For example, a plan view giving concrete structure information (i.e. a bridge) originated
by the designer XYZ shall have the following name:

XYZ-CON-PV (name or n° of bridge)

4.4 – GENERAL DISCIPLINE IN AUTOCAD

4.4.1 – Reference Scales

The scale of reference to be used is 1.
The Autocad variable “INSUNITS” must be equal to 4 (millimetres units).

4.4.2 – Reference System

The Reference System used for the Project will be the Geodetic Datum: GGRS87 (Greek
Geodetic Reference System ’87). Its projection type is Transverse Mercator. Plan view in
CSU (Coordinate System Unit) system.
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4.4.3 – Angular units

- For topographic and road design, the angular unit to be used is the grade.
- For structural design (concrete structures, tunnels, steel structures, etc), the angular
unit to be used can be the decimal degree.

In both cases, the angles are oriented according to the trigonometric direction (counter
clockwise).

4.4.4 – Working Space

All drawings must be realized in the “model space” (TILEMODE= 1) at scale 1. They are
placed in the “paper space” (TILEMODE = 0) in a window.

All cartouches and frames are placed in the “paper space” (TILEMODE = 0).
All the rest shall be placed in “model space”.

4.4.5 – Layer 0 and XREF

Layer 0 must never be used. It is only reserved to XREF insertions.

All XREF insertions shall be made with X, Y = 0, 0, scale=1, and angle according to
general CSU.

All XREF must remain visible (VISRETAIN = 1).

XREF names must always begin with an X and be inserted in the drawing under the
same block name.

A recapitulative table shall be part of the drawing and define the XREF used.

As defined in “Numbering of documents” common procedure, it is reminded that any

drawing that is to be used as an XREF for other drawings shall have a serial number
easy to identify depending on the organisation of numbering of each Designer (based
on the CJV numbering system).

4.4.6 – Blocks
All blocks shall be created only on layer 0, and be composed of simple entities.

Interlinked blocks are forbidden.

4.4.7 – Character fonts

The fonts must be chosen among the standard fonts of AutoCAD.

There is no particular requirement, nevertheless, it is recommended not to use Triplex

fonts which use a lot of disk space.
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4.4.8 – Hatching and line types

Hatching and line types must be the AutoCAD Standards.

No colours, line types or line thicknesses shall be forced on a graphic entity.

It is strongly advised to use only three pen thicknesses, each one being more or less
the double of the preceding. For instance, 0.18 mm, 0.35 mm, and 0.7 mm with an
additional thickness of 1.2 mm for exceptional cases.

Thickness to be assigned by layers.

Hatching shall not be decomposed.

The contour of each hatched zone shall be placed on an inactivated layer in order to get
it easier if necessary.

4.4.9 – Colors
Colors used shall be chosen so that the result is correct on paper even for monochrome
print.

Specific use of color for specific layers could be defined on a later revision of this
document.

Designer shall define their plot style table.

4.4.10 – Quotation Principles

- The point “ . ” shall be used as the decimal point.
- The space “ ” shall be used as the thousand separator.
- Quotation shall be made in millimeters with no decimals for structures, and in meters
with the required precision for topographical and road design (in this second case, the
unit shall be precised: example: 6.780 m).
- Cumulative distances or Kilometric Points of Road Projects must be given in kilometers
with the KM mention and a three (3) decimal precision. Example: 0+172.300 KM).

- Levels are expressed in meters with a three (3) decimal precision and with the “ - ”
sign in front when necessary. Example: 10.345. The reference level must be shown or
referred to in the drawing.
- Angles or grades or slopes are expressed with at least two decimals or more when
required.
- Arrows for slopes shall be quoted according to the following principles:
• Descending: arrow in the descending direction and text of type:
“slope 3.50%”
• Ascending: arrow in the ascending direction and text of type: “ramp
3.50%”
• Embankment: line with text type: “Embankment 2/1”
(2= horizontal distance, 1= vertical distance). If different, it
shall be clearly stated (e.g. 1 = horizontal distance).
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- Graphic scales shall be added on the drawing.

- Compass shall be indicated on Plan Views.
- Plan view drawings along the project shall be readable from the left to the right with
the kilometers increasing.

4.4.11 – 2D/3D Polylines in AUTOCAD

- 3D polylines can be listed by their points in X, Y, Z
- 3D polylines shall allow volumetric calculations from DTM created from 3D poly
- 3D polylines shall allow the possibility in Autocad 3D view to run along the project and
see the impact with existing ground.
- Spacing interval along polyline:
o Survey: in general every 10 m
o Road design lines: in accordance to cross section repartition (not more than
one each 40 m), except in sharp curves i.e. access road (not more than 10m).
- 3D characteristic points:
o At every characteristic point of horizontal alignment: Tangent at beginning of
curve, Tangent at end of curve (generally at all the points reflected in the
horizontal geometry case appearing in drawn longitudinal profile).
o At every characteristic point of vertical alignment: Point at beginning of
vertical curve, Point at middle of curve, Point at End of curve (generally at all
the points reflected in the vertical geometry case appearing in drawn
longitudinal profile).

4.5 – SAVING OF DWG FILES AND PRINTING FILES

Each document shall be cleaned and purged of non useful information before being saved and
registered in GESDOC.

The saving shall be done in the general UCS (User Coordinate System) with a zoom to the limits
of the zone to be printed.

If the document has a “paper space”, then it shall be saved in this space in the general UCS and
in extended way.

It is important that the saved drawing corresponds exactly to the part that is concerned. It is
completely forbidden to save several times the same document with different document
numbers and change only the part to be printed.

Each «DWG» document shall be accompanied by a DWF file.

It is compulsory that the DWF file that is created is exactly the same than the Hard
Copy transmitted document (XREF visible).

The DWG file must be saved using the "e-transmit" Autocad command that creates
automatically, a zip file including the DWG file and all the others files linked to the drawing (e.g:
Xrefs, plot style table (ctb or stb files), images, fonts and line types...).
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It is recommended to have the same size for Xref and dwg, so as to minimise the weight of dwg
electronic file with useless Xref. So it is important to cut Xref to reduce the size of the file.

Exception for road design:

In case of road design and more generally of linear project design, the drawing file (DWG file)
shall concern a complete area, figuring completely in the model space of the DWG file. For
easiness in this project a complete area should be a Geographical Unit.

This drawing (DWG file) shall be treated as an XREF file and have its own number. It shall be
registered in GESDOC only electronically.

It is strongly advised to create the XREF files of a drawing by keeping them in the same
repertory than the drawing (same root) in order to ease the future opening of XREF files by
future users of the Document Storage System.

In this DWG file, the different layouts shall be treated as independent documents, each one of
them having its own number (reference) and its own proper printing file (DWF). They shall be
exactly the same than the Hard Copy transmitted documents.

The DWF files and corresponding Hard Copy documents will be the Contractual Reference
documents regarding dispatching, reviewing, and approval. They shall be the reference for
construction.

The DWG file will be used for working purposes. It will be the particular user’s responsibility to
verify the status of this file when used.

When presenting a complete study (file of drawings and other documents) for review, or
approval, it is possible to reference it as a separate document by using the Document Type FIL
in block 1 of “Numbering of documents” procedure.

Physically, this reference will only correspond to the Box containing the documents, or just a
front page, but it could eventually be used as representing the totality of the documents
included in (if needed).

Ideally, the XREF DWG file given for working purposes and representing a GU can be registered
as FIL type document and contain only the electronic DWG file.

NOTE: After the creation of a drawing in another program (e.g. ODOS) and its conversion to
Autocad, the “recover” shall be performed by the Originator, if needed.
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Example:

Complete drawing of GU 36

Object Layout 1 Layout 2 Layout 3

……
(Working Space) SYSP00101A SYSP00102A SYSP00103 ……

Object Layout 1
Represents the whole GU Represents part of the drawing and
corresponds to one single hard copy
Name of the electronic document to be exactly the same than the DWF file
registered in Gesdoc :
FIL PPX RDL XXXX SYS P 00100 A- Name of the document:
DRW PPX RDL XXXX SYS P 00101 A-
Name of the electronic file :
SYSP00100A-.dwg Name of the electronic file:
SYSP00101A-.dwg

Layout 2
…..
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APPENDIX 1

“Title blocks”