{"id":225,"date":"2006-05-31T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/05\/31\/more-discussion-on-layer-standards\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T05:42:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:42:39","slug":"more-discussion-on-layer-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/05\/more-discussion-on-layer-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"More Discussion on Layer Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about Layers again and wanted to share a couple of conceptual ideas about layer standards.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re developing your Layer Standards you can use outside influences to define your layers.  Being in the AEC market, I let ADT define any layer names that it creates out of the box through Layer Keys.  So any layer that the software makes on it&#8217;s own, I want to use that as my standard.  This simplifies the layer creation and tweaking that I have to do to the software.  If ADT makes it, I use it.<\/p>\n<p>AIA has a layer guideline and so does the National CAD Standard.  I default to those layer names as much as possible.  If they define a layer, I use it.<\/p>\n<p>Layers that I do not like to ever draw on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Layer Zero (0)<br \/>\nLayer Defpoints<\/p>\n<p>I did not create them, so I do not own them.  I should not be using them.  I only draw on layers that I can control.  If the software does not allow me total control over a layer then I do not want to use it.<\/p>\n<p>ADT does create layers for me, but I could modify them by adjusting the Layer Keys, so that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking about Layers again and wanted to share a couple of conceptual ideas about layer standards. When you&#8217;re developing your Layer Standards you can use outside influences to define your layers. Being in the AEC market, I let ADT define any layer names that it creates out of the box through Layer Keys. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","category-cad-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}