CAD Users Interview

Willie · 发表于 2008-3-6 03:40:01

1) What is your name, location and profession?
Andy Hudson, Glasgow, Scotland, CAD Manager
2) When do you use CAD in the production process (i.e. preliminary design, design development, etc.)?
We use CAD at every stage in the production process, from scheme design to contruction.
3) The types of standardizations you use?
We use our own inhouse standards, Symbols are based on the British standards, all of our drawings are designed so the installation complies with British and European standards.
4) Advantages and disadvantages that CAD brings to your practice?
Advantages, Speed, accuracy, flexibility.
Disadvantages, Architects who constantly change their designs, moving doors continually making our job harder.

Lin-Z · 发表于 2008-3-6 05:53:07

1) What is your name, location and profession?
Willie Wilbers, Cape Town - South Africa, CAD operator
2) When do you use CAD in the production process (i.e. preliminary design, design development, etc.)?
Preliminary Design -> Final Design Drawings -> Tender Drawings -> Construction Drawings -> Record Drawings and every other stage imaginable.
3) The types of standardizations you use?
Company standards
4) Advantages and disadvantages that CAD brings to your practice?
The advantages are numerous. ie. You can setup standards that everybody are to follow.
The disadvantages: Everybody thinks that his way of drawing are the standard and that the actual standard is a waste of time.

deegeecees · 发表于 2008-3-6 10:27:35

1) What is your name, location and profession?
Lin-Z, El Paso, Texas, Drafter and [Almost officially] Designer for an Environmental Engineering firm with IS duties and all around comic-relief thrown in to keep things interesting
2) When do you use CAD in the production process (i.e. preliminary design, design development, etc.)?
Our engineers have been banned from using CAD software but they usually provide us with sketches or data sheets and we run with it from there. For us CAD is 99% of the process from start to finish to record drawings.
3) The types of standardizations you use?
We have a company standard that is mandatory, somewhat based on the National CAD Standard with exceptions made for things requiring tweaking.
4) Advantages and disadvantages that CAD brings to your practice?
CAD has more advantages since currently most of the work excluding sheet layout is in 3D models. It saves a great deal of time when one change to a model can automatically carry across an entire set of plans. Whatever extracurricular shenanigans that can't be done in CAD can usually be handled with a little creative Photoshop.

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