Ebook: CAD Management: The Definitive Guide to Systems Set-Up, Maintenance and Efficiency

CAD Management: The Definitive Guide to Systems Set-Up, Maintenanceand Efficiency is designed as a useful handbook covering both management and technical issues. This is a book that no A/E firm should be without.
CAD Management: The Definitive Guide to Systems Set-Up, Maintenanceand Efficiency covers a wide range of topics pertaining to CAD, including:

• CAD software set-up
• CAD management
• CAD printing and plotting
• A brief guide to AutoCAD
• How CAD relates to the rest of the office
• CAD disaster handling
• Stress management in a CAD environment

These topics are the basic ones which need to be covered for effective management of CAD resources. By examining all the ways CAD should be managed and all the related areas it affects, and how to improve efficiency, this book provides a complete guide to CAD management. CADManagement: The Definitive Guide to Systems Set-Up, Maintenance andEfficiency is designed to be a non-intimidating companion for CAD professionals and related staff.
Distinctive features:

• thoroughly illustrated to demonstrate key concepts
• describes a sample day in the life of a CAD manager
• features CAD training and orientation programs for different office staff
• demonstrates the ways CAD can be marketed and creates an understanding of how CAD connects back to all facets of A/E business.
• explains ways to reduce stress in the workplace.

From the Foreword
` ... man develops modern technology, modern technology influences man. An architectural or engineering office supporting a CAD department is deeply influenced by this relatively new technology and cannot be successful in its use unless organizationally and individually ready to be influenced; just as modems and word processing have revolutionized verbal communication in the A/E environment, CAD is in the process of revolutionizing both small and large scale visual communication...
May the reader of this useful book learn to make the best use of one of the most rewarding visual techniques developed to date.'
Mario Salvadori (late), Hon. ASCE, Hon. AIA; Honorary Chairman of theBoard, Weidlinger Associates Inc., Consulting Engineers; ProfessorEmeritus of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Columbia University

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Fundamentals....Pages 1-15
Hardware and Software Basics....Pages 17-43
CAD and Networks....Pages 45-68
Procedures: The Foundation for Efficient Work....Pages 69-92
The CAD Environment....Pages 93-117
Managing the CAD Department....Pages 119-138
A Brief Guide to AutoCAD for Managers....Pages 139-173
The Hard Copy: Plotting and Printing....Pages 175-193
Disaster Handling....Pages 195-214
The Future....Pages 215-233
Epilogue....Pages 235-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-247

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Fundamentals....Pages 1-15
Hardware and Software Basics....Pages 17-43
CAD and Networks....Pages 45-68
Procedures: The Foundation for Efficient Work....Pages 69-92
The CAD Environment....Pages 93-117
Managing the CAD Department....Pages 119-138
A Brief Guide to AutoCAD for Managers....Pages 139-173
The Hard Copy: Plotting and Printing....Pages 175-193
Disaster Handling....Pages 195-214
The Future....Pages 215-233
Epilogue....Pages 235-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-247
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