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USA standards for residential & commercial buildings.

ashwanikumarshukla
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Have you anyone USA standards notes & template for archicad. Please define & provide all details. Suggest & help.

Ashwani Kumar Shukla
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Ashwani Kumar Shukla

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You may find things like this useful?:
https://www.nationalcadstandard.org/ncs6/content.php

National CAD Standards will probably evolve into Global CAD Standards.
That will be an advantage to some and a disaster for others.

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ashwanikumarshukla
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What should we follow standards for the residential project in USA?
If you have any standard BIM material for USA, please provide us.
We will be thankfull.
Ashwani Kumar Shukla

Archicad 12-26, 64gb ram, window 10
That question is too complicated to answer easily or quickly.

The short answer is that there is no Residential CAD Standard. There is no need for it.
One of the main reasons for this is because a set of House Plans is typically produced 100% in-house by only one person who has no reason to share or exchange any CAD files with anyone. It is only the .pdf's/Plans that you get paid for. Whatever you did to generate those Plans is irrelevant to the person who is paying for the Plans.

This is true to some extent for some Commercial projects too.

Essentially, CAD Standards and Office Standards are not necessary unless your have a need to share or exchange CAD files.

Of courses everyone can benefit from working in an organized and efficient way, but that does not necessarily equate to using a National CAD Standard, Office Standards, or even an ArchiCAD Template.

Another idea is that there is no reason to have a different CAD Standard for Residential and Commercial projects.


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"Architectural Graphic Standards, 12th Edition", American Institute of Architects, Dennis J. Hall http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111890950X.html

Architectural Graphic Standards Online https://www.graphicstandards.com/
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