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Boost Your Workflow with Better Standards Management

Learn how to improve your CAD workflow by effectively managing standards. Discover the importance of standards, challenges faced, and how CADconform can help enforce and promote standards. Increase accuracy, reduce rework, and enhance productivity.

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Boost Your Workflow with Better Standards Management

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  1. How to boost your workflow through better standards management. Marie Franklyn April 12, 2006

  2. Company Overview • Headquartered in Houston, Texas. • Offices in Europe and Australia. • Spin off of Corporate Montage.(15 years of experience of CAD software and services) • Financially stable – No debt. • 100% focus on CAD standards management. • Inherited CADconform product, employees and customers. (Commercial product for 6 years)

  3. Why are standards important? • Intrinsic value of CAD data • These are database - graphical. • CAD drawing is the final deliverable. • More advanced use of the drawing files. • Value of the CAD data is limited by its quality.

  4. What are the challenges? • Challenges to maintain standards in the workflow. • Consistency of the attributes of the elements. • Don’t limit the drafters. • New /young /transfer drafting teams.

  5. Current workflow Verify accuracy before check-in CAD Administrator Quality Control Review DMS Manually check the filesTry to interpret the elements2nd Pass, still needs checking Drafting Drafting Drafting Read a manualInterpret the standardsApply the changes

  6. Administrative Generating the standards. Distributing the standards. Drafting Read Interpret Apply Iterative quality control process Tools fall short How standards complicate the workflow

  7. Built in Standards Checker • What does the MicroStation Standards Checker verify? • Levels • Line styles • Text styles • DimensionsBUT NOT IN COMBINATION! • And what about the rest of the attributes of the elements?

  8. What is CADconform? • Central Repository for storing standards. • Drafting Tool to promote standards. • Check & Fix Tool to enforce standards. • Reporting Tool to process batches of drawings. • Sealing Tool to assure conformance using an encrypted, tamper-proof, graphical seal or apply digital signatures.

  9. CADconform Flow

  10. New workflow Sealed design files auto check-in CAD Administrator Quality Control Review DMS Receives sealed drawings verifying accuracy to standards Receives sealed drawings verifying accuracy to standards Digital Standards Repository Who is the best person to check a file? The one who drafted it. Drafting Drafting Drafting Digital standards, Digital drafting menudigital checking & Verification seal

  11. Summary • Boost your workflow through CAD standards. • Verify the data is accurate. • Advanced data mining • Less rework • Happy employees

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