Following on from my last Tip & Trick, I promised some more information on how Newforma Project Center can help with managing external reference CAD files.
One of the common ways for critical errors and uncertainties to be introduced into a set of project drawings is for somebody to edit a CAD file that is referenced by one or more other CAD files without checking on the implications of the changes being made.
Although AutoCAD is very good at telling the CAD technician which files are referenced by the drawing he is working on, it is not so good when it comes to identifying those drawings that reference the drawing being edited. A change in a structural grid, site layout or basic plan can often impact on several other drawings in the project with potentially disastrous consequences if not checked properly.
Newforma Project Center provides a simple mechanism for checking which drawing files depend on the file that you are about to edit. Users can simply right click on the relevant file in the Newforma Project Files listing and select Find > External References.
In this example a list of all the files that reference our selected drawing file are shown. Note that Newforma collated this information automatically as part of the indexing of all the project files - no user input was required to set it up.
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This is just one of many ways in which Newforma Project Center helps to reduce the risk of things going wrong on a project.
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