CAD Manager's Guidebook
Explaining the role of the CAD manager, this guide details how to create and institute your own CAD standards, policies, and procedures and offers tips and suggestions for maximizing CAD efficiency.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CAD Manager's Guidebook
Introduction
OVERVIEW
The client was on the phone, breathless:
"We've installed our first CAD station. Now we want to begin our first drawing. What colors do we use? What do we name the layers? How do we name drawing files and which subdirectories do we put them in?"
"Anything you want," I answered, at first.
That's the problem with CAD (computer-aided design) systems: most are so flexible that you create a drawing anyway you want. Draw with any of 16 million colors; give layers and files any name up to 255 characters long; and store drawings in any folder on the computer's hard drive, a co-worker's hard drive (via the network), burn it onto a CD, or store it somewhere on the Internet.
Fortunately, the client was smart enough to know that his firm needed to define layer, color, and file-naming conventions before starting the first drawing.
My second, more realistic answer was to tell him the choices he had in selecting a system for organizing drawings. In this book, you learn about conventions that help you get started on your first drawings. Other chapters introduce you to concepts you need to consider to manage a CAD system.
THE AUDIENCE FOR THIS BOOK
In addition to the hardcore data on the pages of this book, you'll notice a lot of extra information in the "sidebars" of this book. To make the book more fun and useful, look for tips and CAD paraphernalia filling the sidebars.
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