CAD Standards - Is there a Meca?

[CADDmanVA]

For the US in the AEC industries, the NCS is quickly becoming the de facto. As for other industries (I saw someone mentioned P&ID above), your best bet is BIM. It's also worth noting that if you beyond vanilla AutoCAD into the verticals, you get many industry standards straight from the source.

[bgreen]

I, too, work in the civil field and find the NCS a bit cumbersome and hard to adapt to my work. I have found a couple of sites you might want to check out:

the CADD/GIS Technology Center has a really comprehensive A/E/C CADD Standard;
the GSA Public Buildings Service has some guidelines in their PBS CADD Standards;
finally, you might try your local county or state web sites for information.

Hope these help.

Bill