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Category Folders in the Document Manager that coorespond to drawing status

Category Folders in the Document Manager that coorespond to drawing status

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 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 Kommentare
Austruct
Advocate

Or sort them into the sub folders from the Details directory, Then by status (up to date or update required)

Example:

Details\

Details\PARTS

Details\PLANS

Details\PURLINS

iwafb
Advisor

Or back to a request from 3 years ago. Simply a "Current model view" button similar to model browser (Tekla has had this function for 10+ years!).

 

In any case, lots of patterns in the requests. Most to do with dialogues/document manager/cloning... And all to do with time saving! Hopefully this becomes obvious to the Dev. team at some stage...

bukko
Collaborator

Dang..... 3 years ago?  

 

Here we have the 800lb gorilla (Autodesk) in the room and they can't throw enough resources at Advance Steel to get the basics right.

 

They even dumped AutoCAD Structural for AST. 

 

You would think they would throw as many resources as it takes to get AST to be competitive with the leaders (Tekla, SDS2)

 

Let's face it....  Tekla and SDS2 handle large models much much better than AST but.......  AST has a great chance to become competitive because of its configurability and seamless integration with AutoCAD, modeling space and ease of use for the most part.

 

To be honest with you I thought Autodesk would have been further along in development since the buyout...but I'm not a programmer so I can't know for sure why this is not the case

 

I would imagine the integration with AutoCAD and the code differences between the two programs (Advance Steel and AutoCAD), probably have some major architectural hurdles to overcome judging by the time it has taken to get this far with Advance Steel after the buyout. 

 

You can tell just by the time it takes for the AST to execute basic tasks, compared to other packages that do the same thing, that behind the scenes in the code are there are many code workarounds or just inefficient code that can't be changed at this point in the development to make the 2 programs talk to each other.

 

 Maybe that's the reason they switched to the SQL database system..... to set the groundwork for more efficiency.  I hope so..

 

Regards

Craig

ECMS  

 

 

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