09-26-2010, 01:31 PM
Sorry CoolestBliss , I didn't wanted to say anything personal or so.
But you see - your company's numbering way needs such program. Of course you did it because you (or your colleagues) can save a lot of time with it.
Also I haven't said anything about the drafting standards, but the naming of the drawings. I leave to you to decide if the naming is fine, if such naming needs a program to print the drawings. I am not blaming you.
This is largely an off-topic but I want just to share some experience: in the 'non-American' world there are some standards (from the start of the 20-century, almost all of them are now ISO!), according to them all the drawings should have only consecutive numbers (also the pages of the text), without letters, and the folded paper drawings should appear in that order. This was done for the sole purpose to identify is a drawing is missing (these were the times - without USB-flash drives and notebooks on the site :blush: ). If there are subgroups, they are not distinguished by a letter, but by number. The type of the drawing, should appear in the title-block, not in the number, etc.
But you see - your company's numbering way needs such program. Of course you did it because you (or your colleagues) can save a lot of time with it.
Also I haven't said anything about the drafting standards, but the naming of the drawings. I leave to you to decide if the naming is fine, if such naming needs a program to print the drawings. I am not blaming you.
This is largely an off-topic but I want just to share some experience: in the 'non-American' world there are some standards (from the start of the 20-century, almost all of them are now ISO!), according to them all the drawings should have only consecutive numbers (also the pages of the text), without letters, and the folded paper drawings should appear in that order. This was done for the sole purpose to identify is a drawing is missing (these were the times - without USB-flash drives and notebooks on the site :blush: ). If there are subgroups, they are not distinguished by a letter, but by number. The type of the drawing, should appear in the title-block, not in the number, etc.