Re: Re: Inch.Dia

I'm probably one of the few ex-draftsmen here (that posts), so no worries about not 'getting the drift', as you say. Actually, there are no draftsmen here because the discipline is dead!

I have to wonder if the various standards organizations would benefit from opening up their information on a pay-as-needed basis. That would likely open up a whole can of worms though.

Paul

Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:

> Paul,
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> Sorry for not getting the drift of your comment.
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> I know many large engineering organisations who dont keep their standards
library up to scratch. I have access to many Australian documents because of the standards committees that I serve on. Some ISO documents are also available to me. But I also work on jobs with ASME, ANSI, AWWA, AWA, WSAA, JIC, DIN, EN and SIRIM standards. I would go broke investing in all these documents.
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> As contributor to Standards Australia I know that they get very little
government support. They have to trade commercially. (Another round of economic rationalism imposed on engineers by the "beanies"). So they publish revisions more often than necessary. They have a policy of revising a document if its of a certain vintage even if the technology hasnt changed.. Well the physics havent changed but someone sees it as an opportunity to make more sales. Sounds like a software development company doesnt it!
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> I pool accesssibility to standards with a number of trusted people in a small
network. Thats the only way we get to keep up to date. But I suspect this approach keeps us more up to date than some of the big boys. Also I can get to the Standards Office and peruse whats there. Received on Wed Sep 07 22:07:00 2005