CADDManager on April 4th, 2007

Last time I wrote about preventing problems before they occur. Preventative (or Proactive) CAD Management involves the concept of setting up processes and guidelines in order to prevent things from going wrong.
Reactive management just responds to problems as they come up. This is part of the job, but can often settle you into [...]

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CADDManager on April 3rd, 2007

When thinking of what needs fixing in your CAD files keep in mind that most people don’t care about the small stuff. They care about the big things. They do not fix things that are not broken and their definition of broken may mean something different.
“Broken” to the CAD Manager means it does [...]

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CADDManager on April 2nd, 2007

(the product formerly known as ADT)

Recommended System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ processor, 3 GHz or greater
Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) or Vista™ operating system
3 GB RAM
3.1 GB free disk space
1280×1024 monitor and display adapter capable of 32-bit color
128 MB or greater, OpenGL®-capable workstation-class graphics card
MS Mouse—compliant pointing device
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 [...]

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CADDManager on April 2nd, 2007

Sometimes CAD Managers have trouble getting their company leadership to understand their needs. The thinking goes something like this…
CAD Manager: “If they only knew what I know, they would care about my concerns”
Is this true? If the managers that you work with actually knew as much about CAD as you do, would [...]

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CADDManager on April 1st, 2007

Back to the same question again this year as in April of 2005 and 2006.
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