Cad Handbook!

[kevin1973]

Thats pretty intense. Same way as the Corp and anything military related.

[Ryder76]

Looks similar to the drafting standards used for Nuclear construction. That's what I'm used to having and drafting to. Then to come out into engineering and construction for oilfield, refinery and chemical plant - man are they slack!! Never seen such a mess. Many companies don't even know drafting standards exist much less that they should be followed.

Ok I'm climbing down from my soapbox now....getting some dark chocolate....yes.... I feel much better now.

[dac123]

The easy way to make a cad manual is to create template drawings that have all the elements that need to be in the cad manual. Then tell/show the cad users how to make there drawing look like the template drawings then throw the cad manual in the bin.

Most cad manuals are like trying to explain how to do the washing up by writing manual in stead of showing some one how to do the washing up.

[the_real_ptb]

That may be true, but if you want to hold someone accountable for their shoddy work, you need to have something to refer to when they start up with the "well I didn't know" BS. I know people don't sit and work on a drawing with their CAD manual open, but when it comes time to chew someone's a$$ for slacking off, it's hard to do without a definite set of standards to reference them back to.

[dac123]

The idea is to have a template job which the users are accountable to match to. a CAD manual is a theoretical document were a template job with all the standards in, which has all the parameters of a real job and can be shown to work is a practical example.

[railey168]

It's great can I used it also in our office? Thanks..

[leongtechno]

Dear sir,

This 'cad handbook' very helpful for me!!
can give me one 'sample' to use ? this is using arc. firm ?

[Tiger]

Dear sir,

This 'cad handbook' very helpful for me!!
can give me one 'sample' to use ? this is using arc. firm ?

Do you mean something other than the PDF that is attached at the very first post of this thread?

[leongtechno]

no pdf. I need Autocad file..

[MSasu]

Are you looking for a template file based on OP’s standard? You can create your own very easy – just add in a new, empty, drawing everything you need to have available in each drawing and consistent trough project’s drawings (if you will do a search on Forum will find many previous discussions covering this mater). And don’t forget to save it as DWT type.