It can help also other members of the team who may not need to know how to work efficiently in CAD, but they often need to make some simple changes in the drawings. With the CAD standards, each person will be able to quickly locate a single element in the drawings.
What is a CAD Standard and how it can be implemented?
A CAD standard is a set of rules for working drawings in a team. This set of rules should be established and implemented by CAD managers and should be used in the day-by-day by the users. And in order to make those rules really effective, each user should implement them at the very beginning of a new project. A good starting point for implementing a CAD standard is working with drawing templates. CMS IntelliCAD uses a default drawing template to begin a new drawing every time a user starts the program or begins a new drawing window. This template will set the new drawing with default layers, linetypes, text styles, layouts, etc.
CAD managers can create different templates for different types of work and import them every time they are needed. They can also change the default drawing template.
Creating drawing templates
To create a drawing template, the CAD manager should open a new empty drawing and set the following elements:
- Layers
- Linetypes
- Text Styles
- Dimension Styles
- Layouts
- Plotting Configurations
Save the drawing as "Drawing Template (.dwt)". This drawing template can be defined as the default template in the program's options (Paths/Files tab).
Simple, yet effective!
Using a standard policy is pretty simple and a good way to reduce the time spent in the creation of ordinary things that consumes many time.
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