Draw things to scale and accurately It may sound simple, but many CAD users are not in the habit of drawing items actual size. They think that if it is close, it is good enough. Well, it’s not good enough. It contaminates the CAD you have and produces incorrect files. You know that CAD files […]
Will Rogers once said “Common sense ain’t common”. That rings true in CAD circles and much a politics. Maybe more in CAD than you may think. When thinking of the things that should be “common sense” it become apparent that some folks are just not thinking at all. Here is another common sense approach related […]
In a book called “THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE – How Law Is Suffocating America”, Philip K. Howard postulates that the overemphasis on the Law was crippling society and the we were losing the understanding of plain old common sense. Instead of fostering cooperation, our legal system in effect works against it. By emphasizing violations […]
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 not […]
I mentioned that Ethereal CAD is an environment that is all talk and no action. This means that it would have a woefully under developed CAD Standard, if it had one at all. The CAD Standard would leave out critical items like file naming, folder structure, layer names, etc. By doing this it ends up […]
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National BIM Standard Version 1, Part 1 is out for Industry Review HOT OFF THE WIRE… Here is a portion of the press release. Take a look… Washington, DC
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Despot CAD is when the Standards are in place but no one knows why they are what they are. A Despot is: A ruler with absolute power. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant. This kind of environment usually appears to be run by a person who is viewed as “running a tight ship”. […]
Ethereal CAD is an environment that is all talk and no action. It is a place where everyone wants to have standards but no one wants to follow them. It is a system that is too theoretical because everyone has a good idea and none of them match. Files are created, named and stored all […]
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Chaotic CAD is where everyone does what they darn well please. No one talks to each other. No one cares about developing Standards. In fact they may actually think that standards get in the way of productivity or creativity. In Chaotic CAD everyone is left to make the best of each file or each project. […]
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