Elevation marker
Points to an elevation, a view of the building's face drawn on the elevations sheet. The circle gives the elevation's number and its sheet.
Easily confused with
How to read it
In the A/E/C Graphics Standard the elevation indicator marks an area of the drawing that is shown as an elevation on the elevations sheet. The top of the circle holds the elevation's identification and the bottom the sheet number, which has a 2 in the sheet-type position. The Department of Veterans Affairs numbers its sheets the same way, with architectural elevations on 200-series sheets and sections on 300-series sheets.
Also searched as: elevation callout, elevation tag.
This explains what a symbol represents on a drawing. Conventions vary between firms and standards, and a drawing's own legend takes precedence.
Look-alikes
A section marker uses the same circle with a section sheet number.
Read next
- Next in Blueprint symbolsDetail calloutPoints to a detail drawn on another sheet. The circle gives the detail's number and the sheet it's on.
- The same shape in African flagsFlag of EritreaEritrea’s flag is divided by a red triangle running from the whole pole edge to a point at the fly, with green above and blue below, and a gold olive branch inside a gold wreath on the red. Eritrea’s Ministry of Information explains the green as the country’s fertility, the blue as the sea and the red as the blood lost in the fight for freedom; the wreath’s 30 leaves count the years of the armed struggle.
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The same shape elsewhere
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Sources
- A/E/C Graphics Standard, Release 2.2, ERDC/ITL SR-23-1, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, CAD/BIM Technology Center, secs. 4.2.4.1, 4.2.4.2
- VHA National CAD Standard Application Guide, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, sec. 4, sheet naming
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