By Dima
Date 05-07-2007 06:23
Hello..
I think the word "standard" was wrong in the first place, and I apologize that my english failed me with that. As I explained, we are just trying to put a logic for our software to think. So, my fisrt question was that we were looking for a book, or any kind of standards put by an authorized committee or institute regarding this subject. We are not trying to create a standard, we are looking if there's a standard that we we can adapt and put as a logic for the software. We just need help finding something to follow, and for sure we're not trying to re-invent the wheel. Softwares are not smart, you get what you feed them with. For example, if we just say weld two members together, the outpot, which is in this case the weld symbol, can be put anywhere because we didn't feed the software with the enough info for that. Sometimes, if not most of the times, the result will be unsatisfying or even wrong. For a detailer who doesn't use a software, these small things are common sense, but for a software, we have to input every single small detail, nothing should be taken for granted. This for a software is the logic, it's some sort of artificial intellegence. Maybe these things depend on the judgment of the detailer and what he or his client are used to use at the end. But I think there are somethings that everyone agree that this is right, wrong, just preferred, or better ... etc, and this is what i'm looking for: We need a guide.
So if the committees mentioned in your reply have such standards or rules, then YESSSSS, this is exactly what i'm looking for.
I'm sorry again that my english is failing me in explaining what I'm looking for. I hope I that this time I was able to explain better.