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    Not sure how other people may do this where they work. This is the CAD standards that we have set up and work to. Please feel free to apply this setup to your own.
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    That looks good. I have a small section in my cad standards that looks similar to what you have here. My cad standards includes about 40 pages of design standards. It is more of a training/reference manual than a cad standard.

    I work in manufacturing and my cad standard includes default part tolerances and major process parameters. Puts the writting on the wall and lets everyone in the company understand the design basics.

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    Thanks a lot Slash. This is exactly what I've been looking for....sort of.
    Well, not really looking, but there's a lot of stuff there that I can implement into ours. I really like the organization.
    Will probably set ours up online as a web based manual....someday...when things slow down....


    ....and I don't have a bunch of stupid questions to answer....

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    No worries guys. Other than the manual theres another way to set up standards via CAD. I'm not sure how this is done but i have seen it before but basically you create a button and when you press the button on a completely new drawing, it imports in all the layers that are used. Off course these layers will have to be created first but if someone is starting a new drawing the most common method is to do a save as on another drawing and erase everything then purging. I think, and i stress i think this layer button is an add on which can be downloaded i think from the AutoDesk website.

    If anyone knows of this "layers button" please let us know how it's done.

    Glad i could be of help

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slash
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    If anyone knows of this "layers button" please let us know how it's done.
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    Maybe...

    Button creation to import Layers

    Have a good one, Mike

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    Default Re: CAD Standards manual, freely sharing with everyone...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike.Perry
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    Maybe...

    Button creation to import Layers

    Have a good one, Mike
    Thanks Mike.....i beleive also that you can do the same with page setups to. Where you press a button for the right page setup required ie. A1 and once pressed, the page gets set up and an A1 drawing sheet with the company title block all gets done. As far as I know you can set these page set up buttons to as many paper sizes as you want. I remeber at my first work place they had 4 buttons for A1 A2 A3 and A4 (paper sizes).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slash
    Thanks Mike.....i beleive also that you can do the same with page setups to. Where you press a button for the right page setup required ie. A1 and once pressed, the page gets set up and an A1 drawing sheet with the company title block all gets done. As far as I know you can set these page set up buttons to as many paper sizes as you want. I remeber at my first work place they had 4 buttons for A1 A2 A3 and A4 (paper sizes).
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    Try here...

    TIPniques: The Power of Page Setups - October 2005

    and here...

    Oct '05 - TIPniques: Power of Page Setups

    Have a good one, Mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slash
    Not sure how other people may do this where they work. This is the CAD standards that we have set up and work to. Please feel free to apply this setup to your own.

    Very informative, our current standards is made up of a single sheet of A4 with layers, text heights etc, no-where near as detailed as yours. I plan to work on that though.

    One problem which may or may not interest you is that when we had Acad 2002 and used squiggle it would mirror the drawing, our way around it was to mirror the dwg and then squiggle it so it comes out the correct way around. From 2004 onward though Acad has a napkin sketch command which negates the need for sqiggle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.Sanderson(UK)
    Very informative, our current standards is made up of a single sheet of A4 with layers, text heights etc, no-where near as detailed as yours. I plan to work on that though.

    One problem which may or may not interest you is that when we had Acad 2002 and used squiggle it would mirror the drawing, our way around it was to mirror the dwg and then squiggle it so it comes out the correct way around. From 2004 onward though Acad has a napkin sketch command which negates the need for sqiggle.
    Well we're using ADT 2006 now so our manual really needs a little updating.

    To be honest, i think our manual maybe a tad too much....i mean sometimes knowing too much is not a god thing as you'll always have too many options...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slash
    Well we're using ADT 2006 now so our manual really needs a little updating.

    To be honest, i think our manual maybe a tad too much....i mean sometimes knowing too much is not a god thing as you'll always have too many options...

    I understand what you mean, too much can sometimes be as bad as too little.

    Heres a standard (well more of a check list) that I produced when we had two new drafters start at the beginning of the year - this is the closest we have to a standard at the moment.
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