AutoCAD Ten-Year Skills Evolution
Take a look at the last ten years of evolution in Autodesk AutoCAD and learn how you can gain a good understanding of where the new features can fit into your current CAD work.
When I leave the house, I always check for these three things:
Although in the current climate, you probably want to add ‘mask’ to your list too.
We all have favourite places where we leave them so that we can easily find them later; whether it may be on a bedside table, in the kitchen drawer or a coat pocket etc. Wherever it is, we know where to start looking, but what about office equipment and assets? Where are they?
An office asset could be almost anything, it might be electrical equipment like CAD workstations, laptops, mobile phones, photocopiers, drones, digital cameras etc, but might also be valuable artwork, sculptures, title deeds, or even furniture. It might also be things like software licences.
In each case, you will on occasion ask questions such as who has this asset and where is it now. In other cases you may need to find information relating to the asset or be reminded of when an event is due for instance:
Anyone with a little database knowledge can knock up a simple asset register to hold this type of information. It can have serial numbers of equipment, key dates and the names of staff that they are allocated to. As anyone who has tried this will know, the problem is that staff forget where the system is, how to log on, and how to use it. So nobody maintains the data, and it quickly becomes useless.
The ideal is that this type of asset management isn’t a separate toolset but instead an extension of your existing environment, so that you can:
Customers of our drawing management software Excitech DOCS benefit from not just having a CAD document management system, which is saving them huge amounts of time and helping them achieve and maintain BIM Level 2 accreditation, they also gain from the underlying foundations of M-Files as its vast range of capabilities opens a wealth of opportunities to become more integrated, efficient and organised by taking control of all your assets.
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