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CAD Standardization Gets a Big Boost Forward

Barrie Mathews

Softco Engineerng Systems of Canada has recently released a new offering to serve the needs of the design industry and AutoCAD user's world wide. We have released a new product line called S-MAN Advance Systems which are pre-defined for design firms engaged in AEC trades. These systems are FREE. We are doing this because we want to set a more widely accepted standard for CAD management and procedural issues where the wide disparity and lack of common understanding has prevented universal agreement on CAD standards. For all those AutoCAD user's who have had difficulty with AutoCAD standards, S-MAN Advance and its affordable add-on products will lead to your being able to exchange drawing data that is recognizable and re-usable for others in the industry. S-MAN Advance Systems are available for immediate free download. You can modify these packages for any industrial practice and here's how it works.

Install a Shell System for FREE

When you install an S-MAN Advance System, you get a shell copy of the S-MAN AutoCAD Management System from which you can immediately boot up a fully operational turnkey system for free. From there, you can either install add-on components, or just upgrade your existing CAD standards in less than a month. By clicking on a shortcut for each AEC discipline, you launch your standards for that discipline in your version of AutoCAD. You can upgrade, document, and implement your existing CAD standards, or you can implement turnkey industry CAD standards as a plugin that will install directly into the S-MAN Advance organizational structure.

Add-on Components

In your copy of S-MAN Advance, you get the entire S-MAN Systems Manual Template in a PDF file that documents the "What, How, and Why" of your AutoCAD system, current standards, and gives you user definable source files to implement consistent standards office wide. In addition, you will get tutorials on how to manage and upgrade your AutoCAD system, a framework of folders for storing, developing, and managing templates, source files, customization, productivity tools, documentation, and the StanUtil utility package to implement CAD standards into your company's every day design work. Either from the bookmarks in the "Systems Manual Template.pdf" file or from the S-MAN pull down menu inside S-MAN Advance, you can quickly get these Add-on Components at affordable prices:

•  Manual Template files in Word documents that can modify to your own business requirements

• Index Tabs and Labels for your  Manuals using your own 3-ring binders

• S-MAN  Standards for AEC Objects that will plug in to S-MAN Advance

• Our Drawing Converter specially designed to batch process non-conforming drawings to new  Standards

• The entire S-MAN AutoCAD Management System and CAD manuals shipped to you in hardcopy Acceptance of Industry  Standards that Become Universal

What industry has long needed is a standard of best practice for AutoCAD systems configuration because that is the necessary pre-requisite for getting agreement on CAD standards. For example, when AutoCAD user's base their knowledge on a common set of assumptions for scaling, layout, detailing, and annotation, then they can agree on universal industry standards for layers, colors, linetypes, lineweights, and plotstyles. The integrated procedures inside S-MAN Advance Systems provide the these pre-requisites to enable agreement on industry CAD standards that will become universal. 

 

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