What part of the coast? I'm in Southern Central Louisiana... actually doing some buildings for a Foam/LNG production company right now although they got someone else to do the skids and mechanical mounting stuff... which is fine with me, the foundations are interesting enough without the PITA skid drawings... skids are boring as watching flies f... procreate.
I can't give much advice, other than echoing sentiments of pmvliet. I think CAD Management can only work if it's enforcable.
CADaver gave the best three sentences of advice for CAD management in his interview thread when I was picking his brain.
"1.) Standards must be as automated as possible as to be as invisible to the user as can be had programatically
2.) For those elements that can not be automated, they must be programmatically enhanced such that compliance is much easier than non-compliance.
3.) For those elements that can not be covered by 1 & 2 above, the importance of compliance must be imparted to the end user by educational avenues."
I took his advice to heart after thinking about it and seeing the wisdom in those words. It's served me quite well. There will always be exceptions. For now I cannot enforce standards... we would only shoot ourselves in the foot if we were to punish someone, somehow, for not sticking to standards... we're a very small office of mostly engineers. I'm the only 100% CAD guy here, though we're always looking for more drafters. I take on the drawing work of between 2-4 engineers as well as the stuff I can do on my own. We're working on it though.
I'm blessed to have enthusiastic encouragement and support of my superiors.
