Company won't follow standards
Company won't follow standards
(OP)
My boss constantly complains about 'standards', but he's really talking about the ones he made up. He insists that we do all drawings on one level! Should I stay here or find a better job?





RE: Company won't follow standards
...Or wait for him in your car and run over him in the parking lot
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We use Mechanical BTW and it keeps our three plants Germany-USA-Brazil in sync pretty well.
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: Company won't follow standards
If so, is there any easy way to move everything from multiple layers to one layer before you hand it over to him?
Personally, I'd evaluate the job on other issues, and not just that. From what I've seen of drafters, a lot of the useful experience they have (or don't have) is not with AutoCAD, but with the doohickeys they're drawing- so consider that end of it as well. Assuming that you can establish some coherent drafting standard, then change jobs and find that the new company is using those identical standards is not a good assumption.
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Hopefully other aspects of your job are rewarding.
You can also learn a lot about autocad by seeing how people misuse it. If you're looking at it and thinking that there's a faster/simpler/better way, then you're probably looking at autocad abuse. Just file it away, soak up as much useful knowledge as you can, and move on when things are no longer to your liking.
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Seems to me your boss never learned CAD properly and is looking for the easy way out. If you send CAD dwgs to vendors or customers, send them one with the 1 layer and ask for their input.
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
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adapt to their ignorance. They is
how many? Better to have your
mental health with less pay.
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Did he learn on Microstation. Microstation (earlier edition) did not have layers the same as autocad, and each entity was in control of its own weight colour and style. There was a button to allow you to set the current colour, weight, and style base on the selection of an existing entity. Perhapse you could write a lisp to set the current colour, weight and style for drawing new elements based on the selection of an existing one?
I've changed jobs in the past for less money in hopes it get better experience, plus I didn't enjoy where I had been previously working.
Good luck.
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"Boss complains about standards but they're the ones he made up." If he's the boss, that IS the standard.
I'm not THE boss, but sort of "A" boss, but was the only one in the office doing AutoCAD. We hired another engineer, who insisted on doing his drawings his way. Then one day, he says "We should have some standards for this." Well, duh. My way WAS the standard until he did things differently.
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I hope you had an exit interview so you
could express your views about their
ignorance of the value of layers. It
might help the next person they hire.
Sure!
Good luck with your new job.
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Anything you say can be taken out of context and used to defame you.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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