bwaite Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Hi! I'm a longtime forum user, but I've never posted before. I work at a small architecture firm (4-5 people), and we've always taken a pretty hodgepodge approach to CAD management. All of our content files are cobbled together from various sources, and we all have slightly different ways of setting up/sharing/outputting files. Basically, it's a disorganized mess. We are all on AutoCAD LT 2013 as of pretty recently, and we are starting to take on some bigger projects that will require us to have a more rigorous and streamlined workflow, CAD standards, content sharing, etc, etc. (Basically everything we're too busy to worry about until disaster strikes). The point is, where should I go as a general reference for undertaking a top-down overhaul of our CAD management system? We don't have thousands to spend on consultants, and we're all clever enough that we should be able to figure this out. If anyone could point me in the direction of some resources (books, threads here, other online sources, etc) that could help me understand the full scope and general principles of CAD management from the bottom up I'd be very grateful. Thanks! You guys rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 You can start here http://www.cadalyst.com/management Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBox Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I would also highly recommend Autodesk University (AU) online courses, specifically those for the CAD Management and IT track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Search here a while ago there was a post about setting up office stds and the poster uploaded his ideas and comments were made to something useable. I think it was in CAD Mangement forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hughes Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Mark Kiker offers up some good CAD management advice on numerous topics: http://www.caddmanager.com/CMB/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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