Ada compliant shop drawings

[Robert Wilcox]

Hello I’m looking for a software that will help me make ada compliant shop drawings. Something i can upload an excel file and the software will produce the shop drawings.

Thanks

 

[netsol]

i'd like to see that myself...

 

[Forty One]

the only thing you can do is utalise variable data in illustrator and refrence images and text etc.
Otherwise, make a library and keep it as needed.

 

[DOCX]

By "shop drawing" are you really saying "production art"? I have multiple files with generic ADA layouts that I use to build full-size production files for my clients...I'm a designer/consultant. I've never seen/heard of an interface that will produce actual drawings.

 

[netsol]

By "shop drawing" are you really saying "production art"? I have multiple files with generic ADA layouts that I use to build full-size production files for my clients...I'm a designer/consultant. I've never seen/heard of an interface that will produce actual drawings.

i would hope so...

 

[pro-UP]

It would be interesting if there was such a program. However, ADA signs and wayfinding are very custom. The sizes have ranges, so not every sign will be 5/8" text. Sometimes they want 2" and other times they want 1.5".

Then there is the consideration of are they including the clear mini sign to allow more design freedom on the visible sign. There are so many variables that even though a lot of items are repeatable, there are just as many (if not more) that are custom.

All we do are design and consulting for a large number of these types of projects and the secret sauce is experience (painful, painful experience, lol). It's also having a team with the ability to catch tiny details in projects with thousands of data points. Another factor to consider in these types of projects are local municipal code requirements. NYC wants 3" tall letters for their stair and elevator levels and naming, while NJ wants 2" tall letters & numbers for their stair and elevator levels and naming. While these are not part of ADA guidelines they are part of the IBC and NFPA guidelines. Then for fun you can also bring evacuation maps into the discussion. These have OSHA guidelines, that are not usually enforced, and local rules that may require them in these types of projects.

Lots of sign companies are coming up with their own software and custom setups (we are too), and I still haven’t seen a turnkey solution that really works for projects like these.

 

[DChorbowski]

Theres nothing quite like the feeling of receiving a 200-300 qty subbed out ADA signs from China and noticing half way through installation that the braille is incorrect on some of them.

 

[JBurton]

The sizes have ranges, so not every sign will be 5/8" text. Sometimes they want 2" and other times they want 1.5".

And then sometimes they want the 'Corporate Executive Officer' spelled out, but don't want the size the change, and don't want the text on two lines, so you're trying to squeeze 10" of text into 8" of panel, then the architect kicks back 'just change it to CEO', until a week later when they verbally change it to a 12" sign with silver braille instead and while you're at it we want this to match rest of the 8" signs on this floor...