When was the last time you or your company talked about Drafting Standards? Most discussions involving standards these days deal with CAD Standards. There is a difference, with some overlap of course.
Good "Old Fashioned" drafting standards are vital to proper CAD use. What units are you drawing in? What text size are you using? Spacing, line weight, line type, notes, details, etc. These are all drafting standards. And don't forget arrowheads, or ticks, or dots, or whatever you use.
What do you use? Ticks, dots, arrowheads? What font do you use? Text size? Or any other particular drafting style? And what is your discipline? (Architecture, Mechanical, Piping, Civil, Survey, Electrical, Manufacturing, etc.)
Drafting Standards, papersize ("B" "C" "D" "E" "J", erasable, inches, fill out all of the Title Block, and if there are any changes, carry them forward to sheet #1.
ReplyDeleteThat's about it when it comes to drafting. Then CAD got really stupid. Layers sucks. Drafting Standards don't apply to Dimensioning nor anything else.
I forgot to mention Paper Sizes. Good call. But I disagree about layers and dimensioning. It is very different from board drafting. On the board, you draw what you want right then and there. In CAD, you establish a setting and let it do the work for you.
ReplyDeleteA good layering system can save you untold hours of time, especially if you use x-refs extensively.
ReplyDeleteThe ability to use views already created on another drawing, and to be able to turn off layers containing information not required, needs people to adhere to a CAD standard.
There is nothing more frustrating than turning an x-ref layer off and seeing half the drawing vanish.
I hear ya. After an employee left, I took over his project. It was awful!! Nothing was bylayer, but yet we had a standard layering system. I don't care what the standard is, stick to it. If the standard doesn't work then change so that everyone is using it.
ReplyDeleteDo you feel that CAD settings are the "new" drafting standards?
drafting work in circumstances like "workstation with 386 processor, a math co-processor, 75 megahertz, 2 Gig hard drive;
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