Originally Posted by
karenabrown
I would be very grateful if anyone would be willing to answer these questions. They are for an assignment in my AutoCAD class.
Please give your name, general location and profession.
- David Russell, Scotland, Senior Design Technologist (Architecture)
How long have you been using AutoCAD?
- just over 10 years
When do you use CAD in the production process (i.e. preliminary design, design development, etc.)?
- For conceptual design, spatial design and development, presentation, and typical submission and working drawings... and it gives me an excuse to come into AUGI
What types of standardization do you use?
- Have previously developed standards for a couple of offices, but currently using a different set in current office - pertaining to drawing numbering, layering systems, plotting, and typical practice procedures related to the ACAD work.
What advantages or disadvantages does CAD bring to your practice.
- ADVANTAGES ~ what everyone else says.
- DISADVANTAGES ~ What everyone else says, but also cost implications for smaller practices, and the inability to keep up with new releases, thereby making one's personal improvement more difficult in terms of moving on. Furthermore, junior staff are taught on PC, and not drawing board, and therefore never really learn the true essence of what working drawings are about.