Layer standards

[Jason Bly]

We don't really have a company wide standard for layering. Each person has
come from different organizations and still use their own preferred methods,
however, this creates headaches when exchanging drawings. I have the express
tools layer translator switch others layers to my own for convenience, but
we really need to get everyone on the same page. I would like to get some
ideas on layering methods from other companies.

If anyone would like to share their layer standards with me you can email
them to me.

Jason

[Dave C.]

We have just some basic rules, but seems to simplify....

All layers with line work go on layers starting with "ln" ln-boundary
All layers with text work go on layers starting with "txt" txt-light
All symbols go on layers starting with "sym" sym-monuments
All shading and hatching on "shd" shd-perim
All points on "pnt" pnt-control
All images on "img"
All xrefs on "x" x-record

The thing that we like is you can easily isolate large amounts of data
easily, and just from the command line, like "la f sh*"

I'd be interested also to see what others do.....

"Jason Bly" <jbly@marshandlegge.com> wrote in message
news:anho7p$m8s$1@update.carlsonsw.com...

We don't really have a company wide standard for layering. Each person has
come from different organizations and still use their own preferred
methods,
however, this creates headaches when exchanging drawings. I have the
express
tools layer translator switch others layers to my own for convenience, but
we really need to get everyone on the same page. I would like to get some
ideas on layering methods from other companies.

If anyone would like to share their layer standards with me you can email
them to me.

Jason

[Terry Scanlon]

"Jason Bly" <jbly@marshandlegge.com> wrote in message
news:anho7p$m8s$1@update.carlsonsw.com...

We don't really have a company wide standard for layering. Each person has
come from different organizations and still use their own preferred
methods,
however, this creates headaches when exchanging drawings. I have the
express
tools layer translator switch others layers to my own for convenience, but
we really need to get everyone on the same page. I would like to get some
ideas on layering methods from other companies.

If anyone would like to share their layer standards with me you can email
them to me.

Jason

We had the same situation several years ago. After doing some research,
we decided that one layer scheme had little superiority over other schemes.
So, we could invent our own or adopt someone else's.

The important thing was HAVING a standard.

That being said, we decided that we would BASE our standard on the
National Cad Standard scheme as laid out in the Army Corp tri-services
documents.

Reasons:
1. Why reinvent the wheel? (or invent a layer system)
2. It covered more categories than we typically deal with.
(we actually trimmed out quite a bit of layers).
3. It is based on AIA layering standards, so it integrates nicely when
working
with layers inserted from other consultants and ours should be
recognizable
by them. (more professional than a home-made standard?)

We did make some minor changes to suit our needs. Any changes still follow
the conventions set up in the base standard.

Terry Scanlon