Hi
We have a fairly large office (in South African terms). About 130 people. Within the company are several divisions. i.e. Electrical, Urban & Rural, Roads & Bridges, Structures etc. I am with the Urban & Rural division.
The real problems are that every division has its own set of standards and way of creating drawings. With standards I mean different blocks, fonts/text styles, dimensions styles, text sizes etc. Layer standards don't exist. The only thing that is common between the divisions is the company title block. Not the north arrow is the same.
For example:
I we do a project that involve the Urban & Rural and Electrical divisions, the client gets a set of drawings that don't look at least a little bit the same except for the title block. ie. All the text and dimensions look different on the drawings. The electrical drawings look like it has been done by a novice CAD user or a different company.
To tell you the truth: It sucks. Nobody wants to make any change to their standards and change the way the drawings actually look.
If could have it my way, I would create one standard for the whole company. All the text styles, dimension styles, block etc. should at least look the same. Drawings from different division should at least look if it was created at one company with some sort of standard in mind.
How does it work at your company? Do you have one CAD manager that checks every drawing in the company? Whether it's an Electrical or Structure's drawing?
Do you have one CAD standard or divisional CAD standards?
What happens to the guy that doesn't want to conform to the CAD standards? How can we force him to comply?