National CADD Standards

Table of Contents

• 1.0 Information
• 1.1 Quality Assurance of CADD Data
• 1.1.1 Digital File Review
• 1.1.2 Print Mark-Up
• 1.2 Drawing File Format
• 1.2.1 External references (XREF)
• 1.2.2 Raster images
• 1.2.3 Vertical products
• 1.3 Files delivery
• 2.0 Project Delivery
• 2.1 Project Start-up
• 2.1.1 CADD Master File Use
• 2.1.2 Template Drawing
• 2.2 Work in Progress
• 2.3 Production of Contract Drawings
• 2.4 Copyright
• 3.0 PWGSC Computer Aided Drafting Standards
• 3.1 File Presentation
• 3.2 Layering Standards
• 3.2.1 Sorting Graphic Data into Related Data Groups
• 3.2.2 Principal Data
• 3.2.3 Supporting Data
• 3.2.4 Layering Naming Convention
• 3.2.5 Colour Assignment Standard: Layer Colours and Pen Weights
• 3.2.6 Provision for Creation of New Layers
• 3.3 Blocks Standards
• 3.3.1 Real Blocks Object
• 3.3.2 Common Block Objects
• 3.3.3 Symbol Objects
• 3.3.4 Block Library
• 3.3.5 Block Naming
• 3.4 Text Style Standards
• 3.4.1 Text Styles Naming
• 3.4.2 Text height
• 3.5 Dimension Styles Standards
• 3.5.1 Dimension Style Naming
• 3.6 Linetype Standards
• 3.7 Title Blocks and Graphic Scales
• 3.7.1 Title Block Set-up
• 3.7.2 Information in Title Blocks
• 3.7.3 Drawing Scales
• 3.8 Systems of Measurement and Preferred Scales
• 3.8.1 Drawing scales exam
• 4.0 Drawing File Naming Conventions
• 5.0 Appendix A PWGSC National CADD Standards
• A - Architecture
• B - Bridge Engineering
• C - Civil Engineering
• E - Electrical Systems
• G - General Information
• H - Mechanical
• I - Interior Design
• L - Legal Survey
• M - Marine
• R - Real Property Space Management
• S - Structure
• 6.0 Appendix B – Layer Fields Description
• Group Fields
• Single Layer Field and First Extension
• Second Extension
• 7.0 Appendix C - Glossary