The article is is extracted from Dale Batko's article"Understanding CAD Standards": One of the best ways to ensure the productivity of your CAD department is to create and work to a set of CAD standards. Doing so will bring new employees up to speed faster, speed projects to completion with greater accuracy, and facilitate more effective data exchange with clients and collaborating firms.
What Makes a CAD Standard?
As little or as much information as necessary to make CAD work more productive! At the very least, the CAD standard should guide a user through opening existing drawings and plotting them out. This would be enough information to get a new CAD operator up and running on day #1 at the job. A document outlining these steps would be less than one page!
Beyond this, users should know how to effectively edit drawings. This means knowing where the symbol library is located and how to access it, and what "layers" or "levels" drawing information should be placed on. It would also help if the CAD user knew what customizations have been done to the system, because not all companies set up software the same way. Documenting this may take several pages.
A well thought out CAD standard would also include information on how to set up new projects and drawings, and show steps for exchanging CAD data with clients and other companies. There may also be a FAQ section to help users with troubleshooting their CAD systems. Appendices may also be included to impart additional information to the CAD users in a way that does not detract from the overall focus.
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