AEC (UK) CAD Standards

[Mungo]

Dear All,

Is anyone using or has anyone implemented the AEC (UK) CAD Standard?

I would be interested to hear how this works for you.

http://aecuk.wordpress.com/documents/

Thanks

[cadjedi]

Hey, Mungo....

My suggestion would be to get in touch with Paul Oakley (Chairman of AUGIuk).

I believe he works on the AEC (UK) committee, developing the standards you mention.

His email address is paul@oakley-cad.co.uk.

Please mention that Shaun Bryant from the AUGI Board of Directors passed on his details to you.

Many thanks for being an AUGI member and using the forums!!

SB

[Mungo]

Ok, I'll get in touch.

Thanks for your help.

[cadtag]

not to be picky, but it's generally poor netiquette to post somebody else's email address in a public forum. That's pretty much a guarantee that the addy will be harvested and used by spambots. at least, obfuscate it so it human readable but not machine readable.

[Paul.84958]

So that why my SPAMs gone through the roof...

Just for the record I have no connection with AEC (UK) which is led by Nigel Davis of Evolve.

I have however represented the Autodesk community at various BS committees and CPIC groups working on the BS1192 Framework.

Regards

Paul Oakley

[philbythesea]

Hi Mungo,
I looked at this in detail early last year as part of my reseach into designing and implementing a CAD standard at the company I was working for. It's very well structured, logical to use, and good for dedicated/experienced CAD users, but it was/is too detailed for our needs as a small architectural/structural company, especially as most of the architects and engineers that worked on AutoCAD there didn't have enough experience or ability (or discipline) to use it properly. I think it's good for cross-company coordination, and useful for large multi-party projects, but impractical for small to medium sized companies like ourselves, particularly as the majority of our projects involved working with foreign companies and partners. I won't post it again here, but there's a link to the standard we used finally over on Luke's post about new company CAD standards, if it's any help to you.