Comments on: A Useless CAD Standard – Part 4

By: CADDManager

CADDManager — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:07:32 +0000

Boy am I getting hacked on this one…

Busy or not, I hope to not post something again that does not meet your (and my) level of expectations.

Mark

By: X

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:29:40 +0000

Groovy. Glad you have something to do. We all need a hobby. Sheesh.

By: B

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:19:03 +0000

As a consultant for engineering firms, I have to be honest and say that you really offered nothing beyond the blatantly obvious, especially with this last installment: if employees don’t read their CAD standards, give them another copy and make them read it? That sounds like its straight out of the movie ‘Office Space’. I’m sure you didn’t mean for that to sound so simplistic but I don’t know of any engineering firm, big or small, that doesn’t give a copy of their standards to new employees, and many go through orientation classes that cover these as well. I have yet to do work for a firm that doesn’t have mountains of printed-out engineering standards, consisting of many different revisions, which alludes to the real issue.

In my experience the main problem is not laziness on the part of the engineer but lack of modern, well-planned engineering processes and standards that are the direct cause the most expensive problems. That’s where the general public really needs some guidance – how to phase out old processes and implement new ones without losing productivity (the most important part otherwise what is the point) as well as to ensure that the standards being used are the latest approved editions and not something that an engineer got when he started with the company 30 years ago.

By: CADDManager

CADDManager — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:44:25 +0000

I would agree that this one is short and (hopefully) sweat. Sometimes my articles are short and others are longer. I hope that collectively they are useful to all and individually useful to some.

By: J

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:20:33 +0000

Seriously? What is the point of this article? There is absolutely no meat (read details) to this skeleton of an article. Seroiusly, how did you get a TenLinks link for this? Do they even check what is posted here?

By: Jimmy Bergmark

Jimmy Bergmark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:24:48 +0000

You have probably mentioned this before but one thing that is important is that when you make new updates of the manual you need to make it easy for everyone to find what is new. Use different means like having a revision log showing what is new or why not a RSS feed for it.