Topic: What format is your CAD standard document?

[Willie]

I am thinking of following the HTML help file route.  It's easy to create and interactive.

[M-dub]

Currently, Word, PDF and Paper Copy.  It needs updating and it might be time for a format change.  HTML might be a good route simply for the better handling of hyperlinks and accessibility.

[alanjt]

we have a 3 ring binder that is handed out to new employees.

[jonesy]

The last place I worked we did a HTML cad manual, linked thru the cad pulldown. That way everyone had the most up to date manual.

Where I am now, the manual is a PDF, but stored on the company intranet.

The job I am setting up will (time permitting) have the job cad manual linked thru the pulldowns as a HTML doc.

[Birdy]

Regardless of our "format", users here typically don't use it.
They find it easier to just ask me questions all the time.
Generally, I don't mind.  My answer is increasingly becoming "F1" though. 

Thankfully most of our "CAD" standards are in the template file. Does not require much documentation.
Construction standards, and drafting standards are .doc, .dwg, .paper, etc.

Yeah, it is time for a rework of all that documentation.

[jbuzbee]

I couldn't vote because DWG wasn't one of the options.

We keep all standards in a single drawing: I've created tools that access this drawing for blocks, layers, styles, etc. at runtime, and then take advantage of ADT's excellent Standards Manager to keep drawings in line with said standard.  The more "automatic" standards are the faster stuff gets down.

[KewlToyZ]

I have 5 optional formats available, "No Excuses"
I use the web/intranet as the primary means to view them though.
Getting ready to build the entirwe thing as an aspnet portal for AJAX search filters making navigation and quick answers possible.
Getting everything into SQL 2005 as reasonable tables is the hard part.
Began making excel spreadsheets first to organize the data.

[deegeecees]

I've seen them in PDF, Word, Handouts, etc., but I made one for a larger Corp. in HTML (intranet), with included info on all developed VBA/Lisp proggy's and associated files for the 'next' guy who may have come along after me. I always hated having to go through someone elses cluster muck of developed tools without having rhyme or reason to them, so I made it easy for the 'next' guy to pick up exactly where I left off. Thing is, there hasn't been anyone else after me. I still keep in touch with my old boss from there on a Consultant basis, and he's told me that there hasn't been a need for anyone like that after I left. My current set of standards lies only in the grey matter between my ears. Now, if only my synapses would fire enough for me to keep track of them.

[Bob Wahr]

I couldn't vote because DWG wasn't one of the options.

We keep all standards in a single drawing: I've created tools that access this drawing for blocks, layers, styles, etc. at runtime, and then take advantage of ADT's excellent Standards Manager to keep drawings in line with said standard.  The more "automatic" standards are the faster stuff gets down.

The CAD option might work for you then in the absence of a DWG option.

[jbuzbee]

The CAD option might work for you then in the absence of a DWG option.

Not really.  If you read and understood my post you'd realize that CAD doesn't "contain" the standards information the same way a PDF or DOC file would.  The standards are contained in a drawing.  Sorry you misunderstood.

[daron]

In my thoughts mostly, but I have created a lisp that creates or updates existing layers if colors or linetypes are wrong that set the standards I'm creating. If I need to add a new layer, I just put it in the lisp and run it. I believe in dynamic layer standards.

[mjfarrell]

Most users of Civil3D will have their CAD Standards embedded within the DWT file. Through use of good STYLE names, and then further delineated withing the DESCRIPTIONS for same objects. So there is little need for a Standards manual. This might be supplemented with a PROCEDURES manual for design standards and tool application; however this would not be considered a CAD Standard.

[David Hall]

Word - original copy
PDF - what I give to consultants
Paper - what i give my guys in house

[CHulse]

Word - original copy
PDF - what I give to consultants
Paper - what i give my guys in house

Same here.

I do have a CAD file with my standard layers too though... the basis for my dwt...

[JohnK]

The CAD option might work for you then in the absence of a DWG option.

Not really.  If you read and understood my post you'd realize that CAD doesn't "contain" the standards information the same way a PDF or DOC file would.  The standards are contained in a drawing.  Sorry you misunderstood.

Im confused now; what does `CAD' represent then?