Hi Group,
As most of you know, the seemingly unnecessary required refreshes in the document manager can be a huge time waster and kill productivity..... in fact it's up there with the top 3 in my "Death to Productivity by a Thousand Re-edits" list in AST.
Unchecking "auto update" of the drawings pretty much dumps them into the dreaded "unknown" folder which then becomes another unorganized mess.
The AutoCAD/Graitec dev team needs to code a feature into the Doc Manager that will allow it to route drawings to user created categories that coorespond with the user created drawing status.
These folders need to have user controlled settings such as "auto check status on/off" which would be off in my "Issued" folder and my "Frozen" folder etc. Any other controllable settings that the users can dream etc...feel free to chime in!
When the user creates the drawing status the folder/category chain is automatically created with a pop up which allows you too edit the configuration of the folder/category of that particular status
Seems to me that uncoupling an issued drawing from the parametric chain is good for freeing up resources and I'm not gonna explode my drawings in AST just on principle. It's a lame, ugly workaround.. that creates more problems that it solves.
The document manager could really use some love, folks.
Let's vote this one up and add to the feature requests of this idea. Have a look at Teklas document manager. It's good.... but I think the AST one can be made better with the right focus.
Regards
Craig
ECMS