How Do The Professionals Set Up Their 2D Drawings In Model Space?

As any of you who've seen the questions I've posed here in this forum have already figured out, I'm by no means an expert on using CAD programs.

I started out using AutoCAD LT back in the late 90's and used that platform a good 10 years before then switching to CorelCAD, then ARES Commander, and finally started using BricsCAD just a few months ago.

I've been working in the construction industry that whole time in various roles, both in the field and in the office. My ability to create new CAD drawings or modify someone else's existing drawing has been extremely helpful throughout my career.

While my knowledge and capabilities have never progressed past the novice stage, I have always been more skilled than anyone else I've known who was outside of the AEC team.

Other than YouTube, the only actual instruction I've ever received was from my Brother-in-Law back in the late 90's who convinced me to purchase that first copy of AutoCAD LT and then gave me a 2-hour tutorial on how to get started. He himself was self-taught, so I'm sure there were better ways of doing things than what he showed me, but amazingly I still do utilize many of the skills he taught me in those short 2 hours.

As all of you know, there are usually dozens of ways of accomplishing the same results in CAD programs, some are just way more efficient than others. Guys like me are almost certainly always doing things the hard way, as we simply never had any proper training.

With all that background out of the way, I'll try to now get to the point of this post. Over the past 25+ years, I've never moved out of Model Space. I created everything in Model Space and did all my printing and plotting from there, never utilizing the Layout Tabs.

I had the perfect opportunity to 'up my game' this year, by taking on a restaurant remodel project, where the owner's normal architect had recently retired and the project was not going to require stamped and sealed drawings, as no building permit would be required. Therefore, I took on the additional task of creating the design drawings for the project.

This required me to up my game quite a bit and I'm very pleased with my progress, but I'm certain I'm still doing things the hard way. Over the years, various architects and engineers have shared their .dwg drawings with me for one reason or another, but those have always just been basic drawings, like a floor plan or a site drawing. I've never seen someone else's .dwg, which showed various Layout tabs that would show me how they go about creating their elevation drawings, section views, or detail pages.

Plenty of the YouTube videos I've seen watched have explained how to create a viewport on a layout tab, but I've never seen a video which shows how professionals set up things in Model Space to create a full set of construction drawings with all those various elevation drawings, section views, and detail pages.

This lack of training and exposure to how professionals perform their drafting has forced me to recreate the wheel so-to-speak, and while my wheel does work, I'm confident my 'wheel' is much squarer than it should be.

The attached image is a screenshot showing how I have my Model Space set up and it also shows many of the Layout Tabs I have. As you'll see, I've separated things into two different sides, with the existing conditions and demo details all being on the left side and the proposed details all being on the right side.

I first created the existing conditions and then copied those various existing conditions over to the proposed side and then modified those existing details as necessary to create the proposed conditions.

I basically have four views on each of my elevation pages, with one view looking North, one view looking South, one view looking East, and one view looking West.

For the main floor plan, the reflected ceiling plan, and the floor finishes plan, I have drawn those all directly on top of each other and I just turn on and off various layers to create the view of each plan that I want.

While I have many questions for you industry experts, I've already written a novel here, so I'll stop for now and let the roasting begin.

If any of you know of any YouTube videos that go into detail on how professionals set up things in Model Space for 2D drawings, please provide some links. Also, if there are any example .dwg files out there anywhere that are from safe and reputable websites that won't infect my Windows PC if I were to download and open them, please provide those links. If any of you are willing to share your own example files with me, that would be great too.

I realize sharing my .dwg would likely be the easiest way to show you all just how wrong I'm doing things, but it currently has some sensitive information in it that I would have to scrub first and I'm hoping the attached image gives you a good enough understanding to get this discussion started.