stevsmith Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Does anybody have any samples of how their directory structure is set out? I'm getting a new super computer next week and I want to have a good, stong and efficient directory set up correctly from the beginning. the current structure is gobble de gook and all over the place. I will be making a partition on the hard drive. I will be running Autocad and Solidworks. This is currently what I have, but I'm looking for ways to improve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea1307 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 do you have projects that require both autocad and solidworks? here we break it by project first then what it is second so the whole project is together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevsmith Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 Ahh, so rather than making an autocad folder and solidworks folder. I should set the main folder structure out by using say, the contractors name or project. That way I wouldn't be confusing to look up projects. I would just need to look for the company/name that I done the work for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I use H:\PROJECTS CURRENT ....\PROJNUM-DESCRIPTION .........\drawings .........\photos .........\excel .........\word .........\pdf Projectnumber includes the company initials, year, numerical sequence, so for this year first project is DG-09-001 Heat Exchanger. Drawings will be named DG09001A01, ...M01, ETC. Then I have an archive with H:\PROJECTS IFC\2009\ and copy the projects for 2009 that have been issued for construction into that directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea1307 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Ours is about the same as Rkents, except we also have a complete drive. So to start U:\Active ....\PROJNUM-DESCRIPTION .........\drawings .........\photos .........\calculations .........\correspondance .........\updates Then one the job is issued to construction it goes into another drive V:\Construction and once that phase is complete it goes into W:\Complete I would suggest something that you are comfortable with and makes sense, no need to change it to match someone elses (unless its forced by the company) that doesnt make sense, then you'll spend more time looking for things then necissary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevsmith Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Thanks for that chelsea. I'll give it a go, and make it as simple as possible. Hopefully that should do me Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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