Drawing Management

The Drawing Management module is a comprehensive solution for a CAD-independent data and process management for projects, documents, parts, product structures and folders, with user-friendly input, search and output options, and a flexible, PDM-oriented management of users and groups. Configurable classification structures, workflows and indexing mechanisms enable a company-specific control of processes.

Drawing Management works in a project-oriented manner, helping CAD engineers to maintain an overview even during highly complex projects. Recurrent tasks can be performed at ease and at the push of a button. Examples of this include:

identical part search and itemisation,

automatic recognition of production drawings that need to be updated or generated,

automatic filling in of title blocks,

automatic generation and updating of customer drawings and mounting drawings,

revision index creation in case of modifications,

automatic generation and updating of production drawings such as bills of materials, DXF files, PDF files etc.

Please note:
The HELiOS Drawing Management module is not to be confused with the "normal" HiCAD - HELiOS interface. If the Drawing Management module is active, the HELiOS actions will be linked to the HiCAD Save function. Even after saving the model drawing in HiCAD, the HELiOS functionality in the Drawing Management module will be activated. This means that you can construct your models as usual, without have to care about any database settings. These will be taken care of as soon as you save your drawing: The article master will then be assigned / updated, the product structures will be generated / updated, and much more.

To ensure that the management of your model drawings will run smoothly when using the Drawing Management module, the working environment must be set up correctly, and certain rules must be observed. Therefore, it is very important that you read the information given in the Requirements for a Smooth Operation topic.

All functions for Drawing Management can be found on the Drawing Management tab:

The benefits of the HiCAD Steel Engineering module or a HCAD Steel Engineering suite in conjunction with HELiOS Engineer:

Safe, database-supported management of drawings and parts for a project-oriented 3-D engineering
Company-wide, CAD-independent access to current data of 3-D drawings (identical parts, item numbers, geometry data...)
BOM-output and parts where-used lists even outside the CAD environment
Automatic updating of part and drawing attributes when saving the 3-D design and creating/updating production drawings
Intelligent check for parts without production drawing and for old production, mounting and customer drawings, with additional functions for creation of new and updating of existing linked drawings
Constantly updated product structures
Direct access to rights/workflow statuses, linked production, mounting and customer drawings and parts where-used lists
Flexibly configurable and extendable, hence enabling an optimal integration into existing IT environments

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