This process should include you deleting the previous detail library directory and replacing it with a fresh instance copied from a safe, reliable seed source.
Following the copying of the detail files to the server locations, an announcement should be posted. This can either be made on an intranet site, like SharePoint, or via email. The announcement should include a full list of details identifying any new or altered detail drawings.
In the case of alterations to files, it should be noted what changes were made. Once the CAD standard has been developed, documented, authorized, and deployed the hardest work is behind you.
Unfortunately, this does not mean that the work is done. Fortunately, it does mean that there is a significant reduction in effort. Best practices that have been deployed are largely done. Maintenance and updates should only be required if any of the following three events take place:.
In the case of detail libraries, the deployment phase cues the beginning of a maintenance routine. This will involve a regular, annual review of details to update release versions and integrity as well as any needed corrections. Of course, detail drawings created subsequent to the initial deployment must be added to the library directory. Following revisions or additions in either of the above listed cases an update must be sent out to alert others.
This notice should document any changes, deletions, or additions and be sent to all CAD leaders and production staff. At this point any reasonable person may assume that they are done. A complete CAD standard, or some portion of one, has been completed. However, the truth is that no CAD standard is every truly complete. Following the development of any portion of the standard leads to the beginning of another portion. This process goes on and on, from topic to topic.
It is very possible that it will take years to cover the full breadth of all the processes and assets needed to facilitate production in any organization. Even if, by some quirk, it was possible to fully develop an all-encompassing CAD standard, ongoing maintenance is an absolute must. Ignoring this last facet of development can only lead to a standard that is sure to become stale, and eventually out date.
Allowing that to happen is tantamount to wasting the full sum of all the combined billable hours used to develop the CAD standard. Given the number of stakeholders and contributors involved in development, it is obvious that is the sort of loss no one wants to be accountable for.
There about as many different sports-related analogies for business as there are people who have conducted business throughout the history of business.
So, it is understandable if you assume that the MVP is the most valuable player on your CAD standards development team. The MVP is your only key to sanity and actually getting anything out the door. It is the Minimal Viable Product, and it is your friend. Embrace it. The reason for this is simple, the standard is never finished. But the boss wants to know why there is nothing to use yet? Meanwhile the meter is just running and the mountain of overhead costs is rising.
By that he means that you must, at some point, not only do the work but also finish the work. Half of the Mona Lisa is just paint on canvas. The completed Mona Lisa is a masterpiece. In much the same way, an unfinished CAD standard, regardless of how thorough and brilliant it is, is useless until it is out in the world. It is just words and charts and images.
Just bits of 1s and 0s on a hard drive somewhere in the world. That changes the world for those people. It has the layer names, the colors, the descriptions. It has the location of title blocks for insertion or fire hydrant details. It works because it has the minimum information to make the product the standard viable.
This means you have covered the bases of standards for layers, file naming, file structure, and even created a minimal set of blocks. Congratulations, you have just pulled into the Iteration Station! Now go do it again. Not with new information, but with the MVP standards you have already shipped. Revisit each one and bring in the same contributors for feedback. Makes notes and determine what the new pain points are.
Repeat the same essential process used to create the MVP standard, but this time with the goal of revising the standard! And when you have a revised MVP standard ship the V2 out the door! Your users and stakeholders will think you are a magic-maker because not only have you done the impossible, now you are improving on it. And at some point, you will have shipped the V2 of the complete collection. A standards file is like a regular drawing but it has a filename extension of.
To create a standards file, you just create a drawing that has the standards you want — layers, text styles, dimension styles, and linetypes. To use your standards file, you associate it with your current drawing — or a template. If you have a template that you use regularly and you associate the template with a standards file, every drawing that you start based on the template is associated with that standards file. Then you test your drawing. You can test drawings against a standards file one by one interactively or as a group batch auditing.
In this post, I cover testing an individual drawing. The CAD Standards feature makes it easier for others to understand and follow consistent drawing organization practices by maintaining common names and style settings.
Standardized drawing organization is particularly useful in collaborative environments where many individuals might contribute to a drawing. A drawing file that's saved as a drawing standards file DWS can be used as the standard against which to check drawings in progress.
Standards define a set of common properties for named objects such as layers and text styles. You can create, apply, and audit standards in drawings to ensure consistency. You can define standards for the following named objects:. After you create a drawing with the layers, linetypes, and styles that you want to maintain, save the drawing as a standards file DWS.
You can associate this standards file with one or more drawing files. As work progresses on the drawings, alerts are displayed when any standards do not conform.
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