How To Draw A Ramp In Plan

This is variable enough that we won't observe agreement.  To exist safe: characterization the direction arrow with u/d text.
Thank you Citizen,
That's surprising considering the number of plans that solely use the "triangle" on its ramps.  I figured it must exist a universal thing as otherwise they'd be writing "Up"/"Downwards" or cartoon arrows.
Shame also because I like the aesthetic of it.
Out of curiosity, what'southward more mutual?
                Dec 17, 15  ten:01 pm							 ·              
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The key affair is to have information technology be consistent in the whole fix of drawings, and the arrow with text is much better than the triangle considering I had a project where the contractor misread the lines as valleys in a sloped floor. we did catch information technology early earlier they poured the first slabs. If Revit will let you utilize the pointer with text and dash the lines if they must be present.            
Strangely plenty, I always like the ascending arrow.
With no text, I usually presume the arrow points up.
                          
The road to hell is paved with assumptions.
                Dec 17, xv  10:28 pm							 ·              
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Noon of the triangle points upwardly. (The memory fob I use for this is to imagine a liquid existence poured downwards the ramp, and spreading out in the shape of the triangle as it flows downhill.) I've never seen it pointing down in whatsoever office I've worked. For construction documents I add text and spot elevations just to make information technology as idiot-proof as possible.
Concur with this approach on CDs to make it foolproof. This is also the mnemonic device I              
              apply.
                Jan 15, 21  two:46 pm										 ·              
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Thanks Dave, so in other words, think of it as an arrow pointing up.  Oddly enough, another boards (non to mention google images) were suggesting the latter.
Thanks again.
              Dec 17, 15  10:55 pm							 ·            
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              I was thinking nearly this recently too. I idiot proof it with an arrow and text. Last matter you want is a change order due to ceremonious non grading it properly when they misunderstood the drawing (would nigh likely be caught in coordination, merely withal).            
                December eighteen, fifteen  7:03 am							 ·              
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I like to label the ramp-stair with lower case messages as up/dn to further confuse the upshot...
JeromeS,
LOL!!!
              Dec xviii, 15  10:09 am							 ·            
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Jerome wins today'south prize
              Dec 18, 15  eleven:54 am							 ·            
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without any letters, it's a trap door
              December 18, xv  six:52 pm							 ·            
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There seems to be no consensus amongst architects, but I disagree with "pointing up."  I always show the arrow pointing down the slope, which is consistent with common practice in roof plans, ceremonious and landscape compages drawings.
If y'all take my advice, all arrows in your drawings, from meridian of roof to bottom of site, volition always betoken downward.
(And stairs and ramps should be labeled, and shown in department as well)
                Jun two, 17  x:57 am							 ·              
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arrows point away from the floor level of the electric current plan -- up & down every bit required            
                Jun ii, 17  eleven:50 am										 ·              
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apex should signal down, that is representing the slope direction which the h2o directions.          
It depends on which level you cut the programme. If the level goes down with respect to where you stand up, the arrow faces down and vice versa.
              Mar 11, eighteen  11:22 am							 ·            
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Employ words, particularly since at that place is obviously no consensus.  Vagueness in a legal certificate is construed against the party who has the almost control over its drafting.  That's us, architects.
              Mar 11, 18  2:07 pm							 ·            
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In kingdom of the netherlands the arrow in plan of stairs and ramps always points upwards.
              Mar 11, eighteen  3:11 pm							 ·            
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Idiotic.          
UP >
or
DOWN >
Pick one.
              Apr 25, 18  7:43 pm										 ·            
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Obviously nobody should be using this note if nobody knows how it should read. Move on.
              Apr 25, 18  7:thirteen pm							 ·            
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UK "Architect'southward Pocket Book" shows arrow pointing Upwardly.
Downward > Up
                          
Everything is backwards in the United kingdom, you guys even drive on the wrong side of the road.
            
                Jun 18, 18  10:06 am							 ·              
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Believe it or not, the Brits are doing it right. They do it the way Romans did it when they hauled carts and things manner dorsum when. Or and so I read somewhere.
If yous in London and walking the streets, but call back "Look Right".
                Jan 15, 21  2:fourteen pm										 ·              
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Just put              up              or              dn              side by side to the arrow ;)
            
...await.. I run into what you did there.
                Jun 18, xviii  11:52 am										 ·              
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I utilise two mnemonic devices:
1)  liquid beingness poured at the top of the ramp spreads wider as it flows downhill.  High < Low
2) Imagine a mount, the peak (apex) is at the loftier side, the base of operations (wider) is at the low side.  High < Low
          
PS) I concur that assumptions are varied enough to warrant text note as well... or spot elevations on the flat floors on each side.
Think of information technology a window/door swing in elevation. The pointy finish is upper end, and the other is 2 is the bottom end.
Of course, if you are in other parts of the World, and so information technology could be the  contrary.
I stopped using that long time ago; adopt the arrow that either points down or up from the level that is being shown on the floor plan. Then, if you're on the Level 1, and you lot desire to go lower, then show the arrow pointing downwards and a annotation DN, just if you want to become upwards, then show the arrow pointing up with a note UP. Couldn't exist more simple.
              Jan 15, 21  ii:12 pm							 ·            
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I concord text note is clearest and leaves no room for doubt.
Just we don't typically utilize text notation on elevations of doors, windows, or cabinet door swings (except in shop drawings, where everything is explicit), and those are all understood by their graphics lonely on architectural sheets, i've never once added "hinge", or "latch" to door elevations, even ones without visible hardware.
              In that location'south too the instance where you're putting together a make clean marketing plan with not text at all, and desire the graphic notation to stand up for itself, and in this case it's helpful to have a standard arrow direction just like we accept for door swings in height.              
            
                Jan 15, 21  2:43 pm							 ·              
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I've e'er indicated swings on door and window elevations. Also, for windows, we used to say O.I. or O.O. (opening in or opening out. Lessens the confusion during tendering; shop drawings only ostend information technology. To each his own, I judge. If doing some other style works for you, and then that's fine.
                Jan 15, 21  iii:30 pm										 ·              
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High < Low - and text notation (UK) .... my conclusion after gear up this thread :)
              Jun 21, 21  eight:59 am							 ·            
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I just came beyond a drawing with the ramp "arrow"/"V" pointing downward, no text or level indication, which actually dislocated me! I learned in all colleges and universities I've been (in the UK and in Hellenic republic) that the pointer points upwards, merely similar the stair symbol has an arrow at the upmost step to show this upwards direction. I was also taught to e'er use level symbols on both sides of a ramp, or stair, to make information technology fool-proof. No need for upwardly/downwardly text.
              Oct 25, 21  11:22 am							 ·            
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