CADDManager on November 14th, 2007

When developing your CAD Standards keep in mind that you are painting a target for your team to hit. You are not creating a “how to” book. Leave the “how to” part for training. By giving them a target to hit you are allowing for some flexibility in what they do to hit that target.

Let’s say that you are creating a Layer List. It should include all of the info they need to create the correct layer with name, color, pen style, etc. Your standard should not tell them how to create it. You may use a LISP routine, or the layer dialog box, or the layer command line options, or create from Standard (in ACA). Leave the method of creating the layer up to them.

You could define the text sizes and placement of general notes (what goes on what layer and what file) but leave the method for creating that text up to them. They may type it in Word and cut and paste it into MTEXT. They may type it out by hand. They may even ask someone who can type faster than them to do the job. Let them figure that out.

You just set up the target. Define as much as you need to make sure that the end result is always the same.

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