Sharing your Standards - How to provide your guidelines

When others need to use your standard, what do you provide them with?

I suggest the following...

Give them a hardcopy of your standard.  Complete and hopefully decently bound together (not three hole punched and tied together with yarn, like in preschool).  I would suggest that you do not give them a three ring binder.  Pages could become lost or added by others.  I would suggest comb binding, so that the whole thing remains together. 

Give them a PDF.  This is efficient for sharing with large groups and keeps you out of the printing business.  With a PDF file they should be able to print exactly as expected.

Give them your CTB or STB file(s).  Don't make them recreate this from scratch.  I understand that they may have to tweak the file a little based on the output device they use.  So the next item is also critical.

Give them a hardcopy plot of your pentable.  Directly printed at full size and half size from your plotter.  Make a file that has 255 lines and solid filled hatch patterned rectangles for your shaded colors.  By doing this they can see and match the output that you are requesting. 

If you want a copy of this Plotting DWG file - e-mail me and I will send it to you.

Give them your standard graphic symbols blocks.  This would include your section cut symbols, callouts, titles, etc.

Make sure you provide them with a contact name for questions.

Make sure you offer to explain everything that is in the Standard.

Make sure that you emphasize that they need to follow the standard.

Let them know how you are going to check on the their compliance. (Using the CAD Standards Checker inside AutoCAD)