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CAD Standards Manager
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Explanation of Standards
Standards Manager uses a system of standards, disciplines, groups and categories to organize
the procedures CAD designers and drafters are expected to follow.
A
Standard
is a set of company/agency layers, colors, linetypes, symbols, details, sheet
borders, text styles, and custom programs. Standards Manager controls standards setups via a
relational database and organized folder structures containing symbol, detail and sheet border
drawings. The root folder of each standard setup will be named identical to the name used for
the Standard setup. Standards Manager allows the use of multiple standards if standards from
other agencies/companies/clients need to be followed.
A
Discipline
is a subset of the company/agency standard layers, symbols, details, sheet
borders, and text styles. Each department within the company/agency can define their own
discipline within a standard in order to segment their project work from other departments.
Example discipline names would be “Architectural”, “Civil Engineering”, and “Mechanical”.
A
Group
is a subset of the CAD Department’s discipline-specific standard CAD elements. A
discipline’s layers, symbols, details, and sheet borders drawings can be subdivided into different
groups according to type or use. Examples groups would be walls, doors, roads, and sewers.
Layer Categories
are used as the basic building blocks for the creation of layer names within a
discipline. Standards Manager allows use of one to five category layer setups that can be
assigned to a given discipline. A single category system is simply a complete layer name as a
category component. In a multi-category setup a selection from each category is combined to
create a layer name.