How many layers do you use?

[Anonymous]

Hi!

One interesting question I think is, how many layers do you need to make your work easy working with? And too communicate with other contractors.

Here in Sweden we have a standard made with a thought that everyone using AutoCad and because of that we need to use this standard even if it's not made for objectthinking software. And this makes our work more complexed than it has too be, specially when our office has most AutoCad freaks that like to work with this standard and it's hard to explain that I don't want all this unessesary layers.

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:
I would like have a go at a file you need translated in to a perfect AutoCAD® Architecture file configured for NCS version 4.0 or AIA CAD standards file.

Will you marry me?

[Steve Jepson]

How about this one?

Recording Historic Sites and Structures Using Computer-aided Drafting (CAD) (.PDF File). HABS/HAER, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Addresses the application of the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Architectural and Engineering Documentation to the use of computer-aided drafting (CAD) software in the production of two-dimensional HABS/HAER measured drawings.

[Anonymous]

Well, that HABS/HAER ... a different animal altogether.

NPS is addressing SOI Standards which guides the treatment of historic structures. HABS/HAER is for documentation that goes into Library of Congress.

I do work for NPS - their CAD standards come out of the Denver Service Center (DSC) here: http://cadd.den.nps.gov/standards.html

Now it they'd all just get together and agree on one set of standards.