growing model and texture libraries...how do you manage it to keep thi clean and tidy

[flino2004]

I have a drive with all the libraries in there divided by application MAX, Sketchup, Autocad, Revit, Rhino, etc
I have another folder for Entourage 2D, Library 3D (divide by company, example: Evermotion, AXYZ design,ect) inside of each company by category) the models that I made them are inside my company name as well
for textures the same thing, Standard MAX2009, MAX2010, etc) by company and Custum (inside there is a folder per project that need a modified texture or custum made textures).
my Asset Drive has a Software folder where I have all the plug-ins and software needed.

X drive for Projects(active)
Y drive for Libraries
Z drive for administration (documents, contracts, invoices, etc)
O outputs ( I clean it every 2 months)
Q archives (zipped folder after the project died)

project name is like that 11001,11002( first two numbers is the year)
inside each project folder i have:

3ds (temp folder where I export geometry to be used in max from Sketchup & Rhino)
CAD (Autocad ,Revit)
SU (Sketchup)
IMG (Final images, Indesign file)
RED(Redlines )
RH(rhino)
MAX
OUT(when I send something preliminary to the client)

the reason why I use short names(8 characters or less) is because It will be easier to recover them and proccess the info if the Hard drive fails.

Fernando

[voltron7]

Good topic...I try to do similar to to flino, mostly very organized, but it's not perfect!