
Originally Posted by
blothian
Hi Wanderer,
I work mostly on jobs for Network Rail (They own almost all of the Railway's here in the UK so you don't get many bigger clients) and their CAD standards have levels for each consultant discipline however they use a colour convention of only 4 colours on their drawings (using a WYSIWYG methodology i.e. no plot styles/pen tables etc... to discern the status of works (Existing or unchanged, Modified/to be moved, Redundant/To be removed, New/Proposed/Additional). This convention doesn't reasonably allow for a bylayer approach as the status of geometry on a particular layer can change at any point. I say reasonably as you could do it but you would need the normal layers duplicated and set to use each of the colour's (where applicable) which as you can imagine creates a stupidly long layer list.
Learning AutoCAD is not for part of my day job, its more a personal thing to enhance my skill-set and employabilty. I've not found anything yet in AutoCAD that is better than MicroStation save for the GUI. Not only is the visual look easier on the eye but the Ribbon is also superior to Bentley's Task vertical interface.