Re: Company CAD Standards Generation and Implementation

"Do you have Company Standard templates with predefined lines, colors and
layer etc. In all the pauperize that are used. If not I would create them and
have the bosses tell everyone to use them or else face redoing there work,
unpaid, using the company standard template. I know it sounds draconian but if
it is the only way to get everyone to sing from the same hymn sheet."

This was my plan from the beginning, however, here is the timeline that I have
experienced so far:

1. Everybody does what they want (albeit with an "implied" CAD
practice)

2. One of my co workers who is not very good with CAD decides he is going to
write a CAD standard which is a whopping TWO PAGES long (basically, layer names
and pen weights)

3. I decide to write my own CAD Standard which is 20 pages long.  I've seen
bigger, so I designed mine in a "10 commandments" format so that it
doesn't overwhelm people (rem,ember, goign from nothing to two pages alone is a
big step)

4. My immediate Dept Manger is blown away and decides a committee of CAD users
within the company needs to be formed in order to review my standard.  However,
my manager decides I should NOT be on the committee in case hostilities break
out during the meetings.

5. After a weeks of lunch meetings, my standard comes back totally B@STARDIZED! 
(eg. Assoc. Dims do not have to be used, MText does not have to be used, etc)

6. I voice and distribute my opinions in a written critique of all the mistakes
that were made (pointing out I should have been in on the meetings in order to
explain why/how the standard works). 

7. Feathers get ruffled.  After all, since I have only been with the company for
two years at that point, who am I to suggest how things should work? Everything
grinds to a halt for the next two years, and people go about doing their own
thing again. SERIOUSLY!

8. Over time, more CAD users are hired, and they start to complain how ther