But in a real design office, there's no practical way to do anything more than spot-check compliance with standards. Thus, any CAD standards enforcement scheme will be only partially successful. In many companies, checking for compliance is something that the CAD manager or users do in the course of working with drawings from other people. Someone opens a drawing and notices that the layer names are a mess or the drawing was set up using some harebrained paper space scheme. In an office with many shared drawings and a sufficient number of compulsive neatniks, this kind of informal checking may keep compliance at a reasonable level.
Some companies implement a periodic drawing review process.
Your evaluation of compliance also acts as an indirect check on the reasonableness of your CAD standards and thoroughness of their implementation. Work in progress Developing and maintaining CAD standards is always a struggle between the ideal goal of doing a thorough, careful job and the practicalities of squeezing CAD standards work into busy production schedules and demands to maximize billable hours. All rights reserved.