Anybody have a copy of their company's CAD Handbook?

[StykFacE]

I have the honor of now creating my company's CAD Handbook. Mostly for record keep & to pass on to new employees. Thing is, I'm looking to see if anybody has a copy on PDF or Word format so I can look over and get an idea/starting point for doing my own for Venture Mechanical.

I already know all the things I want to cover, but I want to do a great job. It will need to be updated to when things change, and I want to have a great starting base so when things do update it will be painless and easy. Can anybody out there hook a brutha up? Thanks!!

- Tannar

[ReMark]

Standards? We don't need no stinkin' standards!

CADalyst Magazine's CAD Management corner has several excellent articles regarding this subject should you get stuck. Here's a link to get you started...

http://search.cadalyst.com/results.p...=3&sa.y=4#1361

When you're done with yours can you send me a copy?

[StykFacE]

Standards? We don't need no stinkin' standards!

CADalyst Magazine's CAD Management corner has several excellent articles regarding this subject should you get stuck. Here's a link to get you started...

http://search.cadalyst.com/results.p...=3&sa.y=4#1361

When you're done with yours can you send me a copy?

haha, sure I'll send you a copy. thanks for the link mang.

[ReMark]

Based upon my reading might I suggest the following items be contained in your CAD Standards Manual:

File Naming / NumberingStandards

File Location Standards

File Backup Standards

List of Standard Sheets, Titleblocks and their sizes

List of Standard Scales

List of Graphics Standards

Sheet Layout, Standard Blocks, Line Weights, Dimensions, Symbols and Blocks, etc.

Layering Standards

List of Text Styles and Fonts

List of Hatch Patterns and Linetypes

List of any custom Aliases and LISP files

Plotting Standards

Contents of Temple Drawings and their locations

That should keep you busy for the remainder of the week. When you're done writing it all up, come back and I'll have a few more suggestions for you.

[ReMark]

Here's an additional link for you re: CAD standards.

www.nationalcadstandard.org

[ReMark]

Styk: I don't know why I like you so much but here's another helpful hint. Google the phrase "CADD standards" (include the quotation marks) and you'll get a truckload of hits to online references. I checked out one for the state of Nevada and it was 210 pages (PDF) long! Happy reading. Hope you had nothing planned for the next month!

[StykFacE]

Awesome, Mark, Thanks a lot for the links. I'm already 3 sections in the new manual. Now I have about 50 more to go.... lol

I basically did what you did in your 2nd post. I got a notepad and wrote down all the sections I need to cover. It seriously came out to about 50 (not just AutoCAD, but our plotter, file management, etc...). It definitely helped me out when you did that in your post. Thanks bud, when I get going on it, I'll PDF it and PM you what I have for you to look over.

[ReMark]

Stykman: Your welcomed. I'd be more than happy to take a look and contribute whatever I can in the way of constructive commentary.

[borsdodas]

i have one pm me

[Hepcat]

I was promoted to CAD Manager last week and the first job on my plate is to create a company CAD Standard.

I've decided to do it in AutoCAD so that I can save a read-only copy of the pages on the server and anyone needing help can save a copy to their hard drive and follow along with the directions in a file that's set up already for whatever task they're tackling.

Jon