How does the UDS serve the manual draftsperson and designer?
Drawings started manually and will continue to be created manually by many. The UDS will assist the manual drafter in the same way as it assists the electronic drafter. It creates the standard for locating information within the drawing set consider it the guide to organizing drawing information. The UDS is a collection of modules consisting of Drawing Set Organization, Sheet Organization, Schedules. Drafting Conventions, Symbols, Terms and Abbreviations, and Notations and Code Conventions.