LOL! I try. My biggest concern with Standards currently is our workflow and productivity.
Keeping the company lean by creating these standards.
When I say lean, I mean less time on training more time on the production.
Of course it will always result in up front time investment with regard to the project setup.
As the complexity of these projects increase exponentially I am faced with the crossroads of BIM transition for the company and its standards. Currently we are pretty much open source Autolisp customizations.
I lobbied for the company to make a transition to the aec content specific methods, but ultimately everyone has stuck with the the open source standards and Vanilla use of AutoCAD MEP.
I spent quite a bit of time setting up the drawing template for MEP to have it collect dust without any verification from the users.
Once again, every few months someone comes by and asks about Revit to work with our clients.
As always, I am interested, but we spent $800-$1000 for 6 candidates to take the courses.
Not once have they used the application since. Changing the workflow as dramatically as it would be has made the grass seem not so green. Sooner or later we are going to have to force our own hands with this though.
Of course no one wants to because the profit margin for the project and the unknown's scare every one off.
The same for the aec BIM content of the Autodesk verticals.
So I am still trying to find the path to subtly push the herd into using a BIM approach.
It is already becoming fairly difficult to manage with the open source Autolisp routines.
Moving toward the Proprietary content of MEP still looks like my best bet.
Making the time and introducing them to it is still daunting.
