Drawings standards - how would you do this?

I work in a large company that produces many different types of drawings.

As an example of the different types:

(1) Bridge Structure drawings

(2) Road layout drawings

(3) Road line marking drawings

(4) Service provider drawings

(5) Land purchase drawings

(6) aerial imagery drawings

(7) survey drawings

the list goes on.....

But my point here is how to set the CAD STANDARDS control within AutoCAD to keep a drawing style throughout each and every type of drawing that my company produces?

I have had a little play with the standard controls and it seems easy to have a list of standard layer names, text styles, line types etc.

BUT how to control so many different drawing types when each style of the drawings listed above can contain many of their own layer names relevant to that particular style of drawing?

For example.... the Structure drawings will not need a layer called 'aerial imagery' .... and a road marking drawing would not need a layer called 'reinforcement bar'.

Its not just the layers, but also the other aspects like the size of the text at certain scales....(I know this can be done through annotative controls - but how to make sure everyone is using annotative?). Also using correct drawing numbers etc. etc.

So how does one set up such a control for many different drawing types through the CAD STANDARDS feature within AutoCAD ?

I think this question was asked once.You can set your own standard, like you said, you produce many different drawings.You can set your won company standard, like LTS scales(per drawing scale),font sizes,color assignment and more.

I would set up a template drawing for each of your different drawing styles, and so then when you select 'new' you are given a choice for the style of drawing that you are going to produce, and then you'll have only the relevant layers text styles etc. on there.

As Fire_col replied, a template for each type of drawing you intend to produce.

Write protect the drawing templates, and set up some rules for all to follow.

thanks guys....I can see that might work in the way I want it.

I have 6 staff and its a hard job to make each drawing look the same we talk about it and give them a sample to copy but start with your templates.

I know of a very large organisation who re develeoped over 200 company buildings they had a cad mananger and to get around this problem the autocad menu was basicly removed and replaced with component menu's so you drew to correct layers etc