The Owners' Manual - Issue 12 - Winter 2018

Pet Peeve: AutoCAD Templates and Folder Locations I guess a good reminder to all would be to use the templates that have been created and where they are located. Also, a good reminder would be to properly file items that come in and files that are going out in the proper Record IN/OUT folders. In almost all cases, templates have been generated for use for all the base drawings for you. They have been generated for and with the intent to maintain consistency when they are used. Please exercise caution with copying old data forward since in most cases the file structure or format may have been modified to support a specific purpose, feature or client need as well as where the templates are being updated to reflect new and best practices, the older information is not. As on the prior page, the purpose of our folder structure is to help organize and maintain a wealth of information that is not only for existing and current needs but for future ones as well.

Autodesk AutoCAD templates are located at:

Autodesk AutoCAD 2014

Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 F:\CADD\Setup-18\Templates

F:\CADD\Templates

We do have a DOCUMENT RETENTION committee that has reviewed and established much of the project folder structure naming and needs. If you have any question or request on the project folder structure please coordinate with one of its members. For the Autodesk and Bentley software being leveraged, please coordinate with your BLAST representative for direction.

Pet Peeve: Saving Contracts & Proposals

Unexecuted contracts (proposals) are to be saved under PM/PRP folder for the associated project. Executed contracts are saved under PM/PROJ- CON/+FINAL-CON. Only the signed and executed contracts should be in the +FINAL folder and there should only be one file in there. This will allow anyone who needing that information to locate it quickly without having to dig through multiple copies

There is confusion where unexecuted ASAs & SUB Agreements should be saved. Since there are already subfolders under +FINAL-CON for these, that’s where some people save them. (I thought the intent was for only the final executed agreements to be in this folder). Other people save the unexecuted ASAs under the PRP folder.

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