People want and need to have something to look forward to. It gives them a reason for pressing ahead. It provides them with hope that their CAD problems might be answered, the project problems might go away and that the next release of software is actually going to do what it says it will do. […]
Continue reading about BAD CAD Manager Habits – Offering False Hope
I am a big supporter of teamwork. If you have read my stuff or heard me speak, you know that I believe in working with and through teams. Teams are one of the best ways to make progress and get everyone moving in the same directions. Teams are not an excuse to pass the buck […]
Continue reading about BAD CAD Management Habits – Allowing others to make your decisions
When a CAD Manager starts assaulting a persons character or calling in to question the persons abilities to perform any given CAD function, they may have slipped into an area where they do not really want to be. We assault someones character when we demean them, point out their flaws in public, deride their inabilities […]
Continue reading about BAD CAD Management Habits – Attacking the Person not the Problem
I have previously done some extensive writing on BAD CAD – files that fail to work the way you expect. Now I move on the BAD CAD Managers. There are a few out there that are easy to spot. They stick out like a sore thumb and everyone tries to avoid them. But before we […]
Continue reading about BAD CAD Management Habits – Jumping to Conclusions
From the Autodesk website… For AutoCAD customers in the Americas and Japan, you are entitled to 30 days support from your date of registration covering installation and configuration of your new Autodesk software. Installation support Installation support is support for installing software on your computer system using the installation process described in the product Getting […]
CAD Standards are meant to be changed. They are not to be created and set up as if chiseled in stone tablets. They should be reviewed and updated on a regular basis. I keep a Master copy of the Standard that I mark up and then publish when there are enough changes to make an […]
The Standard is an Ideal – you may never reach perfection. In fact you most likely will not ever see a perfect set of CAD files in your entire career. But that does not mean that we just throw up our hands and give up trying. How many perfect games have there been by Major […]
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. […]
Next on our tour of the Layer II toolbar is the CopytoLayer command. Click the command and then select a layer that you want to copy onto another layer. This does not move the entity, it makes a copy of it on the target layer. Once you have selected the entities, hit enter and the […]
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