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Archaeology Data Service
CAD: A Guide to Good Practice

by Harrison Eiteljorg II, Kate Fernie, Jeremy Huggett and Damian Robinson

with an additional contribution by Bernard Thomason

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Acknowledgements

Section 1: Introduction

1.1 Aims and objectives
1.2 Other Guides in the series
1.3 How to use this Guide

Section 2: A brief introduction to CAD for the Humanities

2.1 An introduction to CAD
2.2 How CAD developed
2.3 CAD programs and important CAD features
2.4 Two-dimensional models
2.5 Three-dimensional drawings and models
2.6 Multiple CAD files
2.7 Connected data tables
2.8 CAD, virtual reality and other drawing programs
2.9 CAD and GIS

Section 3: Capturing data for CAD projects

3.1 Common sources of CAD data
3.2 Precision and accuracy
3.3 Survey, data density and CAD
3.4 Field survey for CAD models
3.5 Direct object scanning
3.6 Retrospective conversion to CAD from maps, plans and drawings
3.7 Photographs
3.8 Conclusions

Section 4: CAD systems

4.1 Choosing CAD software
4.2 Choosing CAD hardware
4.3 CAD layers, naming conventions and drawing colours
4.4 Indicating precision on drawings and in CAD
4.5 CAD data formats

Section 5: Documenting data from CAD projects

5.1 Why document your data?
5.2 Documentation for projects
5.3 Documenting the conventions
5.4 Documenting field data capture
5.5 Documenting off-site data capture
5.6 Documenting CAD models
5.7 Documentation case study: Symon's Castle

Section 6: Good practice in managing CAD models for digital archiving

6.1 Introduction
6.2 The archival need
6.3 Planning for the creation of digital data
6.4 Storing digital datasets
6.5 Digital archiving strategies
6.6 Metadata for resource discovery
6.7 Metadata case study

Section 7: Depositing data from a CAD project in a digital archive

7.1 Possible digital archive facilities
7.2 Requirements for depositing data with archives
7.3 General considerations when depositing data
7.4 Depositing CAD data with the Archaeology Data Service

Bibliography and web references

Glossary

Appendix 1: Accuracy and instrument tests

Appendix 2: The CSA layer-naming convention

Appendix 3: The English Heritage layer-naming convention

Appendix 4: Standards in Archaeology

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