Colored Plans

Does anyone out there use colored plans and if so what software are you using? I'm thinking this would be a good marketing tool. Thanks in advance for any input.

Most jurisdictions will accept any color as long as it is black lines on white media for review, or black lines on reproducible, durable media (mylar) for recording.

The agency I work for often uses color plots for exhibits.  In private practice, I used color only for worksheets and some exhibits.  We use LDD (soon going to Civil 3D) at my agency.  I used MicroSurvey in my private practice, and mostly AutoCAD/LDD and all it's previous incarnations going back to DCA at previous places of employment.

Thanks Terry and Rusty. (DCA wow- haven't heard that one in a while!)

Just about any CAD software should handle color. It's simply a matter of defining your pen palette. What is needed that is not commonly possessed is hardware that can plot in color.

JMQ,

Coloured plans can be beneficial for presentation. Depends on end user . I have coloured line work on my computer programs and prepare plans with coloured text and lines , then print in black as that is required colour for our boundary plans.

I do sometimes send coloured PDF engineering site plan  files to clients. Some then say when they print in colour that certain colours are faint. I then tell them to print in black to get consistency.

These days printers are dirt cheap and coloured inks astronomically expensive.

RADU

At my previous job, we were providing colored boundary & improvement surveys that had a color photo of the building, and colored title company logo. We were using AutoCad LDD2. It seemed to work well, and our clients liked it.