CAD Standards

Resources and Digital Information for CAD

This webpage outlines the standards for composing and submitting digital engineering drawings to the District of North Vancouver for the purposes of meeting the requirements set forth in Section A (General) of the Design Criteria Manual of the Development Servicing Bylaw 7388.

The purpose of these standards is to ensure that electronic engineering drawings, which are submitted to the District of North Vancouver (DNV), are compatible with DNV systems and software.

Engineering Drawing Standards

Engineering Drawing Composition Standards

The District of North Vancouver requires that all digitally submitted engineering drawings adhere to the composition standards as follows:

  1. Construction drawings and asbuilt drawings must be delivered in the AutoDesk DWG 2007 file format. No other formats will be accepted.
  2. All CAD elements are categorized in accordance with the layer assignments as per the Civil 3D Drawing Template (see below).
  3. All CAD elements are properly geo-referenced with correct projection, datum and origin specifications as per the Civil 3D Drawing Template (see below).
  4. Symbolization, colours and line styles must adhere to the Civil 3D Drawing Template, DNV AutoDesk Blocks, and Additional DNV Resources (see below).

Engineering Drawing Submission Standards

The District of North Vancouver requires that all digitally submitted engineering drawings adhere to the submission standards as follows:

  1. All project files must be submitted to the District staff member who contracted the work.
  2. All project files must be submitted on a DVD.
  3. In addition to submitting digital engineering drawings, mylar hardcopy drawings must also be submitted (please refer to the bylaw).

Digital Design Resources

All in-house civil engineering design is completed using Autodesk products, namely Civil3D. To help you with submitting proper designs, please download our custom resources.

Civil 3D Drawing Template

Our AutoCAD Civil3D drawing template, containing units, layer names, widths, styles and point group information predefined. This drawing template is in Autodesk Civil3D 2007 format. Also included is an excel spreadsheet with an overview of the layer specifications.
Download Drawing Template

DNV Autodesk Blocks

Our custom DNV blocks, including blocks pertaining to utilities infrastructure, vegetation, borders, etc. All of our blocks are in AutoCAD 2004 format.
Download Custom Blocks

Additional DNV Resources

Additional Autodesk resources - custom linestyles and AutoCAD Shapefile.
Download Custom Linestyles and AutoCAD Shapefile