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

[Pineapple]

I just started a new thread on my Cad Handbook. Check it out.

[mechguy]

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

---- You can try your local library ... they usually have up-to-date material on CAD packages.

[skipsophrenic]

the one thing i found useffull at college was also doin a little tutorial on profiles/workspaces - that way can keep to the standards BUT have cad setup for how i use it best - just my thought for a penny

[stevsmith]

I found this website, It may be usefull


http://ci.ftlaud.fl.us/engineering/cad.htm

[rookie37]

Standards are much harder to enforce than they are to write.

People bring in their own standards as they have gotten use to those

My suggenstion is to write lisp routines around those standards. Make it easier to use your standards than without. In fact, Write your standards around the lisp programs you can write.

Even with this, it will still need enforcing. The hardest thing (by far) about drafting is modifying a drawing created by someone else because there are so many ways to draw. I'm all for standards.

Bringing in so many variables and making Autocad so powerful also made an infinite number of standards. It is debatabe of Autocad has become easier or harder

You seem to be preaty cluey and can write powerful lisp programes.

[ReMark]

Standards are the guideline. It's the manager's job to enforce the standards (within reason - no beating employees with birch branches).

[Caddy79]

Standards are the guideline. It's the manager's job to enforce the standards (within reason - no beating employees with birch branches).

C'mon, just this once?

[Sickguy]

Standards are much harder to enforce than they are to write.

People bring in their own standards as they have gotten use to those

My suggenstion is to write lisp routines around those standards. Make it easier to use your standards than without. In fact, Write your standards around the lisp programs you can write.

Even with this, it will still need enforcing. The hardest thing (by far) about drafting is modifying a drawing created by someone else because there are so many ways to draw. I'm all for standards.

Bringing in so many variables and making Autocad so powerful also made an infinite number of standards. It is debatabe of Autocad has become easier or harder

You seem to be preaty cluey and can write powerful lisp programes.

i have been in charge of company standards for about 2 years now. i have learned that you cant make people draw differently, but you can establish layers, blocks, penweights, file naming schemes, xref usage, etc for them to follow.

my goal has been to streamline the look much more than dictate how to get there. i also dont buy into making everything a lisp routine. it may work and be efficiant, but it makes anyone new coming in dependant on a lisp routine to do simple tasks, and eventually they become drones that dont really know how to use autocad. out of the box and free of lisp, ACAD has an amazing number of ways to get to where youre trying to go.

[Ritch7]

yeh I guess people will always draw how they see fit, I see lots of stuff and im like why did you do it that way when you can do it like this, sometimes they even know about other ways its just ways they know best even if there slower!

ps. this thread has been dragged up lol

[Sickguy]

yeh I guess people will always draw how they see fit, I see lots of stuff and im like why did you do it that way when you can do it like this, sometimes they even know about other ways its just ways they know best even if there slower!

ps. this thread has been dragged up lol

i used to work with a guy that used grips for everything. he was fairly fast at it, but its like, there are a hundred better ways to get that result than by just using grips.

i currently work with a guy that sees xrefs in black and white. he would rather draw "everything" in a base xref and just xref it around into the sheets. his argument is that its just one change thats universal. while in theory its a good idea, but just ridiculous to work with if you want to do something like a simple enlarged plan of some sort.

now that i have been drafting for 10+ years, i do my best to utilize a variety of tools in autocad for my drawings. i have been places where companies dont even use paper/model space for layouts. ugh!