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Educating Management

    17-Jun-93 03:17:49
Fm: Kendall Alton 72707,473
To: Dennis W. Banaszak 73417,726
I have seen the the most often over-looked aspect of CAD is the education of the users… how many come into Advanced ATC classes that still do not understand, nor use customized menus, scripts, Lisp, or Paper/Model space, not to mention utilizing 3D wireframes, or dare I say AME solids… Education of management usually falls in the category of what was originally defined as success when CAD systems were installed. Few bothered to set criteria then, and now are unable to make an educated judgement as to what the true productivity gains are. CAD users know the gains intuitively, but unless benchmarks of production (drawing) outputs are set, management will have little chance of seeing a difference.