Sharing cadd knowledge within the company?

[Ferroequine]

Aaarrgh!

~makes sign of the cross~

Am I one of the few who didn't mind this feature once I got it working for me?

[Richard.Kent]

Am I one of the few who didn't mind this feature once I got it working for me?

I really liked it a lot, was sorry to see that it wasn't made as an option to use or not. One day autodesk is advertising it as a great productivity booster, the next it is gone with out a trace.

[cadtag]

great idea, poor implementation. A lot of stuff seems to work like that, and since it's new, the proud papas make sure it's in your face tight away and all the time.

A good implementation would have kept it around! But the user reception was _so _ negative that the idea was dropped like a rock, even though the basic idea was pretty good.

[jaberwok]

great idea, poor implementation. A lot of stuff seems to work like that, and since it's new, the proud papas make sure it's in your face tight away and all the time.

A good implementation would have kept it around! But the user reception was _so _ negative that the idea was dropped like a rock, even though the basic idea was pretty good.

I agree. Good idea, poor implementation.
Now, where have I heard that before?

[rwelfringer]

Nothing better than face to face verbal communication.

Our company has monthly lunch provided meetings. We have over 30 users of AutoCaD and Revit. The group leader prepares a agenda, we keep meeting minutes and assign tasks. The start of each meeting we review the previous meetings minutes and ask have the task been completed, usually no, so we keep banging our heads against the wall. Eventually things do get accomplished.

We have a great cad standards manual which never gets looked at but at least we can refer to it when sombody keeps trying to reinvent the wheel.

I also keep a document called an Action log. Bascially compiling all the meetings tasks of if and who completed them. It also contains all the questions that get asked around the office and the answers. It contains fixes and remedies for various problems. So when somebody says "hey didn't we have that problem before and how did we fix it?" go look in the Action log! In most cases we get the same old "I never heard that before"

With all of this great stuff that never gets used the most effective tool we have is something called the "WALL OF SHAME" its a bulletin board that we post plots of the most hideous drafting violations on. Nothing gets peoples attention more than seeing thier less than standard work posted for the whole office to see. Everybody gathers around and pokes fun at the drawing and then the words of wisdom just pour out!

"why didn't they just use the menu function for that"
"You know we have a company standard for that"
"Cool they made viewports for each grid bubble!"
"look, 5 different abbreviations for existing on the same sheet"
"I didn't know your suppose to show it that way"
"I thought the Engineers weren't suppose to be drafting?"

Funny what you learn standing around the "Wall of Shame"

Autocad and Revit structural Engineering

[tedg]

With all of this great stuff that never gets used the most effective tool we have is something called the "WALL OF SHAME" its a bulletin board that we post plots of the most hideous drafting violations on. Nothing gets peoples attention more than seeing thier less than standard work posted for the whole office to see. Everybody gathers around and pokes fun at the drawing and then the words of wisdom just pour out!

"why didn't they just use the menu function for that"
"You know we have a company standard for that"
"Cool they made viewports for each grid bubble!"
"look, 5 different abbreviations for existing on the same sheet"
"I didn't know your suppose to show it that way"
"I thought the Engineers weren't suppose to be drafting?"

Funny what you learn standing around the "Wall of Shame"

Autocad and Revit structural Engineering

Very Nice!
Kind of a Cadd version of a Public Stoning!

I like it.

[kwoodward]

Ted,

We have a group within the company known as the CAD REPS. One representative from each discipline. The I T Department puts together a one-hour forum once a month to hammer out issues they have been having with workflow, templates, etc, and I T has time to debut new tools. We have been doing this since 2004 and enjoy pretty decent attendance. I use tools to record the sessions - because you know how deadlines are.

The best advice i can give is to ensure that you have an efficient way to search the prior sessions, for a particular subject.

best of luck!