Originally Posted by
harrington233138783
Hi, I work for a modular company and we typically pass architectural plans onto our structural engineers who would in turn resend us modified structural plans showing the shell of the building which we would then modify by adding in specific door/window details, M&E items, casegoods, finishes, etc and then pass these back to the project architects for comment/approval and for them to update their plans to our specific details.
Although this has been going on for years, when there was >20 cad technicians in the company (before I joined), there has never been any CAD standards in place. Now that there is only 2 of us, I have been thinking of implementing some kind of layering standards even if just for myself for now.
My question is how best to do this as the drawings we receive from the structural engineers typically use a base of 10 or so layers e.g. 0-10; 0-25, 0-50, DIM.....all of which have default lineweights while the various architects we deal with typically use some variance of the AIA layering standard.
I have been researching the layer translator and the rename command so am pretty sure I know how best to change names but the difficulty I have is knowing which items should be on which layer.
As we are the specialist contractor we will be supplying all items from doors, steel studs, plasterboard, sanitary ware, plumbing/electrical fixtures, furniture, tiles, carpet......... so how do I know which Discipline all these should go on; should they all be A- Architectural, Y- Specialist Designers (according to AEC(UK)Standards) or if split them between the various disciplines A, S, M & E should the finishes/casegoods go in A or I?
Furthermore is there any script available with all the AIA or AEC(UK) layers written so that I could make that a template drawing to load into the layer translator?