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CAD Managers Get on the Job Training with S-MAN

If you are working on developing your CAD management skills and CAD manual for managing your AutoCAD system, there are bonuses in S-MAN 6 that you may not have realized. 

Softco's S-MAN 6 AutoCAD Management Systems give CAD Managers an on the job tutorial in developing, implementing, and managing AutoCAD systems with all the good advice you will find in your CAD books. In addition, you will be improving your company's bottom line by standardizing your AutoCAD software with a fully documented, high level, systems deployment at the same time. S-MAN 6 provides a hands on tutorial to help you get maximum production either in conjunction with other training programs or without them.

Tutorials to Help you Manage AutoCAD Quickly

Development and implementation requirements are spelled out for CAD Managers in a step by step tutorial using industry proven methods that have guaranteed success and you can build on. This tutorial guides you in the business considerations and in the setting up of templates, documentation, and source files for company wide implementation. Standard templates with example content you can edit are constructed for you already.

A further 25 step tutorial shows you how and where to define and classify data for use in the combinations you need without restrictions. This tutorial walks you through the decision making process. It then points you to the classified resources and formatted documentation that is provided with S-MAN for all the components of your AutoCAD system broken down. You will examine and refine these resources to suit your business and client needs. Below is a snapshot of some of the resources provided with S-MAN to help you.

Named Plotstyle and Color Dependent Template Drawings for AEC

• Page Setup standards and Plotstyle Tables categorized by the classes of presentation you need
• Standard System Variable configuration
• Turnkey Layering standards
• Recommended Dimension Style and Text Style standards
• Turnkey Line Type standards for AEC objects
• Turnkey Line Weight standards for work in your industry
• Turnkey Named Plotstyle standards for AEC objects
• Turnkey Color Coding standards for AEC objects Training with Templates

You will learn using S-MAN templates and operating standards proven successful. Predefined templates will also show you how to classify, develop, and name your own templates effectively.

Naming Convention Templates with Fields to Classify all your Resources

Template naming conventions are provided for Printers, Page Setups, Plotstyle tables, Dimension Styles, Text Styles, Drawing objects, Symbols, Detail drawings, Drafting Aids, Block Libraries, Template drawings, Productivity Tools, Command Aliases, Standard Documents and more ...

Templates to Help you Develop your CAD Manual

• S-MAN Base Systems Model for CAD Managers Binder
• Office Systems - CAD Manager's Binder
• Office CAD System - Station Copy Binder
• Index Tabs classified for the components you need to manage
• Classified CAD manual documents, forms, and standards
• Template documents to show and tell your users why you have company system, and how it works

Templates Helping you to Improve your Programming and Organization of Productivity Tools

• Prototype set of Fast Commands where you can include your own productivity tools
• Prototype Annotation Commands in fully documented Lisp
• Useful functions you can call from your own Lisp
• Resident set of S-MAN system variables you can use to control drawing units, scale, and more...
• Standard source files to manage customization code and call your own company productivity tools
• Standard source files to control your AutoCAD system from any location on your network
• Standard CAD management utilities to use your CAD standards in all drawings
• Copies of the entire system for modified deployments on projects with alternate CAD standards Hands On Training

Forcing you to classify your system and examine the answers to troubling questions, S-MAN provides the very best training for CAD managers who tend to be creative thinkers not accustomed to extensive classification or conformity. You will enhance your communication to educate your users and management on how your CAD system works, solve problems, and be able to answer the "Why" questions.

Learn how to foster teamwork improving the capabilities of your CAD users together. Show them the benefits of the team approach and train your new users only in using the CAD features your company needs. That is, to produce quality work in its field of practice.

Object Oriented Classification

You will learn the advantages of referencing real world objects for all of your AutoCAD coding systems to keep things simple. You will see how you can define color coding that will allow you to deliver color dependent drawings or named plotstyle drawings to your client with all plotting characteristics properly referenced by object classes.

Learning to be the Best

Softco maintains the greatest wealth of resources on the net for CAD Managers.

• Gaining the Co-operation of your Staff 
• CAD Standards for Objects - What does this mean? 
• What it Takes for Management to Invest in CAD Standards and Automation 
• S-MAN Standards Management Prepares You for the Next Boom Time 
• Tips on Managing AutoCAD 
• Using S-MAN Tools 
• Quantifying the Value of New Software 
• How Good Management Can Make Your Job Fun 
• How Effective CAD Standards Deliver Profits 
• Importance of Documenting your Company's CAD System 
• Using Productivity Tools to Boost Efficiency 
• Leadership Skills for CAD Managers - Part 1 and Part 2 

Implementing Change With Turn-key AutoCAD Management

Softco's S-MAN AutoCAD Management Systems will also show you:

• Object codes for detailing
• Named Plotstyles and how to use them effectively
• Rules for avoiding the agony that can arise from plotstyles used incorrectly
• How to best handle blocks, insertion scales, and create custom details
• Saving custom details on the fly, developing standards, and making them available to all users
• How to apply your scaling for working in different drawing units
• Which decisions will allow you to more easily convert drawings to some other set of CAD standards
• How to automate your annotation and group your annotations by the objects described
• How best to manage custom programs

An S-MAN AutoCAD Management System tells you almost everything you need to know about setting up AutoCAD systems, while providing you with a highly organized umbrella to develop, implement, and upgrade your CAD standards as new technology replaces the old.

 

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