CAD Standards Manager

CAD Standards are a big part of producing accurate, consistent, and efficient designs. That’s why we’ve developed CAD Standards Manager—the best tool to automate your standards across your organization.

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Make Work Easy with CAD Standards Manager

Ensure your company is all speaking the same language and improve collaboration, consistency, accuracy, quality, and speed.

What is CAD Standards Manager?

CAD Standards Manager maintains all of your layers, symbology, labeling, and styles in a database, outside of your CAD program, waiting to be imported as needed. You can create multiple standards sets, check compliance in a single or entire set of drawings, quickly convert 1 to 1,000 drawings, xref layers, and block definitions to different standards sets using our batch processing tool.

Automation

Bring all of your layering, symbology, and labeling standards to the forefront through a single toolbar.

Style Management

View and edit Civil 3D styles outside of cad in tabular format, incorporate your style conventions, and then load them back into your drawings when you are ready for them.

Conversion

Quickly convert sets of drawings to your Standards with our Bulk processing tools.

Compliance

Check single drawings or an entire set, output reports, and rectify all errors in a batch process.

Powerful Admin Tools

Display drawing windows side by side or on multiple monitors, in the same instance of AutoCAD

Database Driven

Maintain all of your layers, symbology, labeling, and styles in an importable database, keeping your drawings to their minimum size.

Explore the New Features of CAD Standards Manager 2025

Learn about SQLite compatibility, layers palette upgrades, standards conversion palette upgrades, and more.

CAD Standards Manager Resource Center

2021 – 2025

Comprehensive guides for the implementation and use of the new CAD Standards Manager Administration & User Modules

CAD Standards Manager Admin Training Documentation
CAD Standards Manager User Training Documentation
2016 – 2020

Comprehensive guides for the implementation and use of the new CAD Standards Manager Administration & User Modules

CAD Standards Manager Admin Training Documentation
CAD Standards Manager User Training Documentation
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