Forum: CAD Management

Survey: One file vs multiple files (x-refs) I'm curious what others think and do. (Also posted on Autodesk forum in case you've seen it there.) Let's say you have a street project. ...

This might be a controversial topic on this forum perhaps although I would like to hear your thoughts and experiences on design companies outsourcing CAD work to lower cost centres such as India,...

Does anyone have an easy way for deleting ACAD generated icons in the "Images" folder of the "ToolPalette" folder that are no longer used? I seem to have a large amount of icons that are no longer...

I am having trouble with how ACAD places new tools on existing tool palettes. The way we have it set is the Toolpalette library is stored on our Server. However we have some users that are...

Is there "One Best" way to do things? Workflow-wise, or sheet set-up, etc. Sure, some workflows... or, rather, ways of doing things... are better than others. And the program itself (I use Civil...

I'm setting up a standard for coloring mechanical/HVAC pipe systems in Revit but am not having any luck in finding any sort of guideline. Yeah sure, I can go ahead and pick a bunch of colors to...

I'm interested in what others do and/or think, wondering if I'm on track, or whacked out. How important is it that linework be accurate? By accurate I mean, lines that are supposed to be parallel...

So I thought I'd do a small write up on how CAD is progressing in the UK. Over the past number of years (about 5 years), there has been a big drive to get UK CAD production on to an international...

Looking for some annotative templates that i can review and see what is wrong with mine. Anyone knows where or has one that would be helpful. Typical drafting is arch/structural. Using autocad...

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I am wondering if there are any self employed draftspeople or managers of drafting departments that frequent this forum? I am a self...

Hi I have some underground Electrical and Telecom Utilities and some structure above the surfaces when I will be working on with the Utility Design software. Could anyone advise me when software...

Our head of IT has moved the company over to almost exclusive use of Google business apps because you know Microsoft are the evil corporation :twisted: Consequently we've lost excel which means I...

Hi all, There used to be a program called Acad Install that would automatically add Lisp / vlx file types and menu's into AutoCAD. As that software is no longer available I wondered if anyone...

I received a drawing and need to convert the layers to our standard layers. When I use the Check Standard button, only the Dimstyle come up. How do I change the layers?

Hi all, I am looking at a way to automatically add folders to the support file search path. I used to use AcadInstall.exe but it is no longer supported for later versions of AutoCAD. Does anyone...

I'm posting here because I think this is more of a management questions than a lisp question. My question is this; if you have a suite of lisps, do you give the command names "shortcut" names...

i cant take it anymore :) this mess with files that needs to be remembered in my head in order to find. A360 is great, but cant understand why i cant tag a file so i can find it later in the...

Hello again. I was recently asked to look in to creating some sort of database for typically used details. Ideally these details would be able to be searched on some database by keywords and...

I will be deploying company CAD standards soon. I think I have everything set and read to go. I would like to get some input if you think anything I am doing may be problematic. Also if you have...

I'm working in AutoCAD 2017 and inadvertently clicked the "no" to "save changes" rather than "yes". I lost a ton of work. In previous versions, to my recollection, it was a fairly simple procedure to...