I have been the CAD mangager here for little over a year, and until I threatened to leave a short while ago the title was just that... A title.
Most people that you talk with who are CAD Managers are going to agree with your statement that it is just a title. While I had this position, it took a long time and lots of smoozing with management to get their support! W/o that support, you have no power and pretty much talking til you are blue in the face!
You don't hire, you can't fire, you have no budget, your not given the time (you need to stay billable)
but yet you are responsible for the quality of work, quantity or work, upholding the Standards and dealing with all the crisis that may arise at any given time. But you already know that
There are several things that will help you push fellow employee's to draw better.
1) Make it as simple as possible. Provide everything a drafter will need to do their job. All the drawing tools, blocks, template files, plot setups etc. Some of this information can be placed in a template file, which I believe you use already. Streamline into lisp, macro's etc.
Remember this: it may take you 8 hours to set something up correctly once in a company wide environment, which will make a 15 minute task for a user happen in 1 minute. If you don't do this, the users could possibly spend 8 hrs a week doing the same thing! Also good to document this for management to see that you are saving money....
2) have lunch-n-learns once a month. Get the company to spring for lunch and you'll do some training. This goes a long way and employees are always hungry in more ways then one. They love information.
The problem is, the people who need to attend won't.
3) streamline Autocad so that it gives the user what they need and only when they need it. The layer creator you are working on is a great start.
**disclaimer: Not knowing what types of problems are your biggest culprit, this might be out of line. The lunch-n-learns are good even just for overall unity.
Just some thoughts.
Pieter
and what She said
We automate as much of our CAD standards into the menuing system and commands as possible. For example when our users enter a text type command we have a little VBA program to take them to the text layer and returns them when done (same for dimensioning). While not everything can be automated (because of time, lack of resources, etc...) if you make it easier to follow the standards then to do their own thing, then in most cases they will follow the standard.
The path of least resistance...