US CAD Standards

[makrand.deshmukh]

i want to know us auto cad standard

[makrand.deshmukh]

sum cad standard

[H-Angus]

i want to know us auto cad standard

Hi,

you need to be a bit more specific with your question.

There are AIA layer keys built into acad 2004 onwards, but as far as other standards go I think people generally create their own in house standards to include such things as: text height, dim styles, font styles, dwg numbering systems, line widths etc.

Also try searching the forums as there are several threads which should be able to give you a few ideas of do's and don'ts.

[robert.1.hall72202]

Each industry can have its own cad standard.
The easiest rule to follow:

"If it can be done on a drafting board, then do the same in Cad."

Which means:

Set some standard text heights and use them.
Set some standard dimension settings for all drawings.
Make objects line up across the page.
Use an appropriate titleblock for each project.

[Wanderer]

There are AIA layer keys built into acad 2004 onwards,

but as far as other standards go I think people generally create their own in house standards to include such things as: text height, dim styles, font styles, dwg numbering systems, line widths etc.Steve, just to double-check I am not missing something, do you mean ADT? or are they found in plain autocad as well and I just haven't noticed them... :(

[ekubaskie]

There IS a "National CAD Standard".

You can even find out what it is if you send the group that set it up a few hundred bucks.

AutoDesk even replaced all the product-specific templates in Civil 3D with NCS-compliant versions - from which I infer that the NCS group has never heard of STBs. "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything," my Grandma used to say, so...

[r.grandmaison]

i want to know us auto cad standardhttp://www.nationalcadstandard.org

[H-Angus]

Steve, just to double-check I am not missing something, do you mean ADT? or are they found in plain autocad as well and I just haven't noticed them... :(


You may be right, I only use ADT so am not sure if vanilla cad has them, sorry I just assumed they did.

[Wanderer]

I believe that ADT is the only one that comes pre-loaded with them.
You may be right, I only use ADT so am not sure if vanilla cad has them, sorry I just assumed they did.

[Glenn Pope]

I believe that ADT is the only one that comes pre-loaded with them.
Civil 3D and LDT also come with them.

[Wanderer]

:Oops: I try to keep up with the verticals, thanks for learnin me sumptin new today, brother glenn
Civil 3D and LDT also come with them.