CAD and the use of PCs generally within the Construction Industry is a relatively recent discipline and continues to evolve as Hardware and Software improves and as CAD users discover new efficiencies within each Software package. This Manual therefore will be subject to frequent revision. | CAD STANDARDS MANUAL KMB design groups, inc. . 828 - 7th Avenue . Olympia, Washington 98501 360-352-8883 CADD STANDARDS MANUAL FOR KMB: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. 2. 3. Cover Index Introduction . . . . . 4. General Notes . . . . 5. XREF (Background) Files Sheet Files Detail Files Sheet Set Manager . . 9. Basic Folder Tree Expanded Folder Tree File Naming Guidelines . . . 8. XREF (Background) Files Border Files (Title Blocks) Sheet Files Image Files Detail Sheets & Files Project Folder Structure . . 7. General Drawing Notes General Linetype Notes General Hatch Notes Dynamic Block Notes CAD File Types . . . . . 6. Definition of CAD standards Roles and Responsibilities Revision History Modification Process Software Guidelines Usage and Theory Resources Layer Naming Guidelines . Creating Additional Layers 10. Text Styles / Font Standards . Dimension Styles 11. Sheet Layout & Plotting . Pen Table Settings Cad Standards May, 2009 Page 3 Page 3 Page 4 Page 4 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 6 Page 6 Page 6 Page 7 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 10 Page 10 Page 10 Page 12 Page 12 Page 12 Page 12 Page 13 Page 13 Page 13 Page 18 Page 18 Page 19 Page 19 Page 20 Page 20 2 KMB design groups, inc. . 828 - 7th Avenue . Olympia, Washington 98501 360-352-8883 3. INTRODUCTION: . What is “CAD Standards”? One area we tend to clump together is Standards. What I mean by that is that we tend to put "Drawing standards", "Quality standards" and "CAD standards" together too often and in many ways they are different. Drawing standards = The look of the final product when it goes out the door. Is the product a professional architectural piece worthy of the KMB title block? Quality Standards = Is all the information correct? Can project be built/constructed well from these documents? (This includes accuracy.) CAD Standards = The method by which the drawings .
