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Personal CAD Standards
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BIM Manager – How did you arrive at the position?
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Personal CAD Standards Can you be productive without a CAD Standard? I have asked this question to many users over the years… I get the same answer most of the time… “Yes- I can be productive without a CAD Standard” When I delve into the issue a little more they tend to rethink what they have said. At first blush, the answer above is correct. I really don’t argue their perspective. They are correct, if they are thinking of a printed hard copy standard that is sitting on their desk or stored as a PDF file on their system. It is correct because the standard is in their heads and it is a personal standard. Personal standards are developed and used all the time. They are created on the fly, by the person behind the mouse. It is theirs and they love it. They settle into systems of production that work well for them. They define symbols, layers, layouts, definitions and more. All in their heads. All working great on their files, on their PC. We all do this – it is a natural process. You are not going to make things up as you go forever. You are going to settle into patterns. These patterns become your personal standard. It works great – as long as you are the only person working on the files and projects from start to finish. But – and here is the bigger issue that I bring up…
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Outdated CAD Standards Personal CAD Standards impact everyone because they are not shared. Each person is doing what they want. This causes files to differ from one person to another. These differences cause production slow downs. Outdated CAD Standards can do the same thing. Here are a few things that might happen if your CAD Standard is out of date: 1. You don’t use the power of the newest tools. You are stuck complying with a standard that was created two or three releases back. Missing out on the productivity can be harmful. 2. You have trouble interacting with others. You get files from other firms that use newer features and you have to “dumb them down” so that you can work on them. 3. You force guidelines on people that are no longer valid. Cramping the expansion of your team based on guidelines that do not take into account the changes in the industry. 4. You get a false sense of productivity. You may be faster doing CAD in an older fashion but no one else is. BIM Manager – How did you arrive at the position? I did a survey and asked the above question. Here are some of the answers I received:
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October 2009 Poll - Saving your Files Last month we discussed saving your files and your work - so I figured I would ask about how often you saved your files.
Looks like most of you have good habits, but I kind of wonder about the 3 votes that "never" save their files.
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November - 2009 Standard are all over the place. Do you have one of your own? Is it your "personal" standard? Is it outdated? This month we look at how your standard or lack
of one impacts every user. Mark W. Kiker, Editor |
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