We're looking at using ADR 2012 as a tool to communicate markups and approvals (using digital signatures for the approvals) of AutoCAD Mechanical drawings. The current scenario is one where a few designs & associated drawings are originating in AutoCAD Mech, being converted to .bmp or .pdf, emailed, printed, marked up by hand, scanned, emailed back, process repeats, drawing is sent back again, printed, signed (approved), scanned, emailed back. The ineffiencies are obvious and there is currently no way to confirm / prove that the approval is genuine. With our primary CAD package not being an Autodesk product the thought is ADR will allow us to clean up this process. Here is where the questions arise. From those using ADR to markup & approve drawings, what is your process? Any roadblocks or things that tripped you up? What would actually seem to be the biggest for us is the "culture" change in process where no pen and paper are involved. In effect this will be a sort of pilot project for going digital with our markup and approval process in our main CAD & PLM system in the near future, so even though the actual procedure would be different, I want to get this right to essentially prove it can be done without pen and paper. Here are my questions:
Thanks for any input.
Regards,
Erik
Hi Erik,
I'm also interested in whatever answers you get to this question. My company's digital signature solution can provide one of the crucial elements to keeping the workflow you describe paperless. I'd be curious to know if this is the only workflow that requires signed/seal drawings in your company, or if there are others like it that come from different programs (SharePoint, for example).
Best,
Marla
marlas@arx.com