Drawing Formats in WORD? 1

[ROK99]

We have a few different CAD platforms, but we are considering moving all our A-Size and B-Size drawings to WORD since they are usually text, tables or charts. This eliminates maintaining all those drawing formats in CAD.

I keep trying to find a generic WORD template I can start from - I can't find any. I'd prefer to not start from scratch.

Ever come across any WORD templates with border and title block?

 

[IRstuff]

We made our own

https://files.engineering.com/getfi...2310d8da&file=Clean_A_SIZE_WORD_TEMPLATE1.doc

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[drawoh]

ROK99,

Why maintain any drawing format other than A[ ]size portrait, and B[ ]sized landscape in CAD? E[ ]size allows you to place a lot of detail on a drawing when you have a non-zooming drafting tool like a drafting board. A[ ]size and B[ ]size can be printed full size, and stored in 3[ ]ring binders. E[ ]and D[ ]size do not fit on work benches, and cannot be printed in a readable state on a letter sized printer. Do you or anybody work with have full-sized plotters?

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[ROK99]

@drawoh - I agree with you, and have worked that way for some time. I recently took a job that supports the Military. Yes, we have full-size printers... perhaps all in North America. Change is slow here.

@IRstuff - Thanks! Do you consider this "Open Source?" May I take and modify?

 

[IRstuff]

I think OP is talking about what we used to call "book-form" drawings, i.e., Word documents that were assigned mechanical drawing numbers and therefore required title-blocked front sheets.

Yes, I stripped out, hopefully, any references to the company. We've not used that format in nearly 20 years.

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[dgallup]

One of the advantages of using CAD is it keeps the unwashed masses from altering your drawings. Do you really want Sally in accounting to be able to make changes?

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[CWB1]

If you do not have a PLM tool, that change will likely make your inevitable implementation of one very difficult. If you do have a PLM tool, you are going to lose a lot of its functionality.

 

[Sparweb]

This may have more to do with the skills of the employees doing the work than the efficacy of the resulting document or file system.
Very few people willingly learn to use AutoCAD, it seems, despite its tremendous capabilities, nor any of the other similar 2D CAD systems. It is possible to generate tables, text, and charts in AutoCAD, and I would venture that in many cases I can do so in AutoCAD better than MS Word. But I have a lot of experience using it, and someone without that experience has to learn CAD just to type words on a piece of paper.

Race to the bottom.

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[IRstuff]

There's a lot of text you can generate in Autocad, no doubt, but a 150-page requirements document with autonumber paragraphs, auto TOC/TOF/TOT, track changes, etc.? I think that's a poor use of someone's time when Word already exists and does it better and faster. There are lots of tools that you can substitute for another, but you wouldn't want to be making a living with a mismatched tool.

We used to print our "book-form" documents on drawing format paper because that was the edict imposed by the ME department drawing room spec, but it was crazy to kow-tow to some arbitrary standard just because someone insists on using their tool to do something it was ill-suited to do. We also used to insist on using Excel to do requirements management, because we could, even though it was likewise ill-suited for the task, compared to using DOORS. So some poor schmuck wrote a fancy VBA macro in Excel to do requirements traceability, even though we were re-inventing a wheel that had already been done better elsewhere, because we insisted that DOORS was too hard to use, yada, yada.

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[rb1957]

word for documents,
CAD for drawings.

if you want to put a drwg into a report, use pdf.

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