Benefits Of Cad Over Paper Engineering Drawings

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Engineering drawings are part of a daily life of any engineering domain be it civil, structural, architectural or mechanical. Simple drawings involve drafting standards, title blocks, multi-view sections and dimensional specifications. Complex drawings may contain revision blocks, angle of projections, full list of parts utilized, scales used for drawings,auxiliary, orthographic and assembly views. Today engineering innovations has forced EPC companiesto utilize a technologically driven environment to compete with the market.

CAD or Computer Aided Design helps companies in managing a terrific amount of paper engineering documents. As per one survey there are only 20% of engineering drawings are in CAD format worldwide! Since a product development life cycle involves tremendous amount of documentation and hence CAD becomes essential for easy transfer of data in effective and speedy manner. Paper drawings are difficult to handle, store and send to remote destination and there is always cost of paper involved in it.

Paper-based drawings vs CAD drawings:

Paper drawings and blueprints are prune to aging and tear over time. CAD drawings are in digital format and are stored electronically on a hard-drive.

If you require frequent revisions then CAD can handle it efficiently while paper require manual handling resulting in more cost.

You can not send paper drawings to someone until and unless you have a copy of it. With CAD many copies can be send on the fly while keeping original file on hard-drive. This saves time.

It is often difficult to retrieve specific information from paper while in CAD offers electronic searching that helps find information speedily with one or two clicks.

Also CAD documents can be in number of formats such as PDF, Tiff, DWG, DGN, etc which results in efficient collaboration and communication among team members. Storage and safeguarding of paper archives can be cumbersome due to erroneous manual handling and archiving.

CAD software such as Revit, AutoCAD, SolidWorks and 3D max makes engineers life easy with on-demand modules and advance tools for accurate outputs and superior services. To know more about CAD conversion and how it can change handling of engineering drawings email us at info@cadoutsourcingservices.com


About the Author:
Richard Bothom is member of CAD Drafting team at COS - an established offshore firm offering wide range of Civil, Architectural, Structural and Mechanical design services at affordable rates. For more information visit http://www.cadoutsourcingservices.com/cadd.php



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