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CADD Standards Notebook for A/E Firms
The CADD
Standards Notebook provides instant office standards for the A/E
office. Great for firms that have the chaos theory at work in their
drafting department. This standard is a Word document that can be customized
in any way to meet your specific needs.
Key Benefits
•Provide
consistent drafting products
•Increases efficiency and productivity
•Decreases time dealing with drawings (like xrefs)
•Decreases time training new employees
•Improves quality and consistency
The CADD
Standards Notebook was developed by actual working consulting firms to
be a guide for existing employees and a way to transmit information to
new employees. If all employees involved in CAD production are using the
same standard, a better quality product can be produced while saving
time correcting unacceptable drawings or finding drawings.
Every firm is
different and we recognize all firms may already have some standards
already (or at least ways of doing things). Therefore, the manual is
designed to be edited and added to using your word processor. All text
in this manual is saved in Word 6.0 / 7.0 and WordPerfect 5.1 or later.
Method of
incorporating CADD standards into your office:
Option 1 - Start from Scratch or what you have
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Gather what information you have and schedule a 4-hour
CAD meeting
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Figure out the outline and details of each thing that
needs to be organized. Write it all down from the conversation.
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Prepare draft copy of standard and schedule a second CAD
meeting to go over subjects missed and prepare a second draft.
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Repeat steps 2-3 until a first version can be completed.
Option 2 - Start with CADD Standards Notebook
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Buy CADD
Standards Notebook
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Open the CD in your word processor and do a search and replace
of **Your Company Name Here** with the name of your company. Print out
the resulting document. Have CAD-oriented people in your firm review
the manual and mark up comments and customize for your particular
office needs.
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Have a 1-hour CAD meeting to review comments.
(optional)
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Have secretary
type changes to
the manual on your word processor.
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Distribute
manual to all CAD production employees or put on your
intranet and/or file server.
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Reference this manual in Employee Manual if you have one.
Or tell employees that drawing production is to follow the guidelines
in this manual.
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Recognize that this manual will be a dynamic document. Update
the manual as new ideas are incorporated into your office processes.
When you are
done, you will be light years ahead of most firms in establishing important
CAD standards in your office that will improve productivity and efficiency
of both new and existing employees.
CAD Drawing Standards
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROJECT DIRECTORIES /
FILES ORGANIZATION
File Server Project Directories...
Detail Master Directories...
Master Directories...
Backup Methods...
Project Closeout...
ARCHITECTURAL FILES HANDLING
Architectural File Labeling...
Design Development Architectural Conversion...
Final Architectural Conversion...
Xref Setup and Filename Format...
Title Blocks and Title Info...
Title Blocks Library ...
DRAWING STANDARDS
AutoCAD Menu...
Architectural Layer Names...
Electrical Layer Names...
Fire Protection Layer Names...
Mechanical Layer Names...
Plumbing Layer Names...
Revision Layer Names...
Text Styles and Heights...
Detail and Bulletin Standards...
Revision Sheets...
Pen Settings for Plotting...
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