Standards

I like being a CAD Manager, I don't love it.  I love doing architecture and working on projects, but I like organization that's how I got involved in being a CAD Manager.

I've been working on our template, I've realized I'll need more than one and I do and don't like that.  More for me to manage, and I'm not a control freak so I'd rather have less to manage.  I've started a Basic Practices document to give to all my users, and I'm starting to create a Standards Manual, which isn't very long  and for now it's more of a "what not to do" document.

I thought I'd list some of the few things I've found to be important: (in no particular order)

• Purge the model, often
• Review warnings (often!)
  
• Close hidden windows (we have a shortcut for that=XX)
  
• Create a workset for each linked file
• Create working views (one for each user)
• Recreate the local file weekly
• Local files should be created by copy/paste in windows explorer not by opening the central file and doing a save-as
  

There's more, especially with families.  Fun part is I'm learning so much as I go along, as far as setting standards that my list is 3 pages now!  I don't like it's length but I like that I'm learning and especially understanding!