Hi Eduardo, Seems like the answering messages got hijacked with wistful desires for features and specifications...
To get back to your request, I intuit that you are documenting standard work policies, either already existing or possibly needed. To support the creation of your library, you can imagine various uses in the near future. Your own list included: Traceability Locating Graphics Documentation Mapping If a Writer needs a compound image with existing parts or with a combination of existing and new parts (parts = the widgets your writers are documenting), what is the most economical and the most convenient way to get started? For consistent documents and also for ease of building a drawing, having a stock of drawing building blocks makes a lot of sense. In my current job, we write maintenance manuals with various test setups. The test instruments and the test components are collected in a library as we create them (while drawing a new test setup). When we add a new instrument to a standard test, we can collect standard drawings and symbolic components so that all of our test descriptions in all of our manuals have a similar style. This is intended to give the customers a comfortable feeling while following our instructions. Our test instruments are fairly complex signal generators, power meters, spectrum analyzers, and vector network analyzers. We create outline drawings in Adobe Illustrator that show the connections, buttons, and display panels. We find our library of images both convenient and cost effective. It certainly saves time by having many drawing components already available for copy and paste. I can image a procedure that describes: General formatting and styles for drawings Storage locations, names, and groupings (folders/subdirectories) for convenient search Grayscale drawings and color images for different document purposes Photos versus drawings A new team member would want to know what style is required and where to find examples. Your SOP could answer such questions and serve as a reminder to the whole team for both storage and recall of new and existing images. I hope this is helpful. Auditors seem to have a need to justify these things. Ed DeRosier _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.