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A brief note on CAD standards and their significance!

‘CAD standards’ is quite a common term when it comes to Architecture Engineering and Construction industry but what does it actually means. Well, CAD standards are specific set of rules, regulations and guidelines that are important to be followed by CAD technicians when they generate drawings by using CAD software like AutoCAD. These rules and guidelines are basically followed by the drafters so that design consistency and uniformity can be maintained on the drawings in terms of representing design data through drawings. With the assistance of uniform CAD standards design data stored in the drawings can be conveniently interpreted by users or different stakeholders involved in the project.

On the other hand inconsistent design standards may lead to confusions and chaos when it comes to interpreting CAD data. Apart from this a large amount of time can be wasted by the people involved in the project for interpreting the information if CAD standards are not followed by drafters while developing drawings.

When it comes to defining CAD standards they can be defined as standard operating procedures and rules optimized by drafters or CAD technicians in the representation and maintenance of CAD data. As computer aided designs are extensively optimized by design and construction professionals across the world today, it is exceedingly important to maintain CAD standards for their development so that CAD data can be deciphered effectively by the employees of different organizations. As CAD Drawings are circulated across organizations during preconstruction stage their information content must be understood effectually by people involved in the project.

But it’s true that a single set of CAD standards cannot be followed by companies across the world as a variety of them are present in the market that are developed by different reputed organizations.  Some popular CAD standards which are generally implemented by CAD technicians globally are developed by companies like National Institute of Building Sciences (United States) and British Standards Institution (United Kingdom) etc. However, it is also possible to create your own CAD standards by examining the available CAD standards and then develop a set of standards by figuring out project needs for the kinds of project that you execute.


Hence it is important for design and construction companies that they follow CAD standards on the services that they deliver for enhancing the productivity of their clients. 

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