The drawings can be updated directly from the Document Manager. Additionally, you can control the Document Manager behavior related to the detail status check.
To update these documents you have two choices depending on whether you want to track changes or not.
Thus, the status can be checked automatically when starting the Document Manager for certain drawings or for all o them.
Advance Steel is able to track all changes in a model since document creation and knows when a drawing or other document is out of date. If documents are found to be out of date they will be placed in a separate folder on the left panel of Document Manager.
The Document Manager can automatically check if drawings require an update due to model modifications (Automatic detail status check). The out of date documents are moved in a separate folder on the left panel of the Document Manager and can be updated directly from the Document Manager.
Automatically check the status of all drawings to ensure that all are up to date
If automatic check is disabled, you can:
Often, during review stage of a project different changes might be necessary:
Model modifications can be done by several engineers and may affect one or several existing drawings.
According to standard practice in maintenance of engineering drawings, changes made in the model during the review stage of a project are identified using a number or a letter code and are listed in the revision table on the affected drawing. For each revision level, the revision table lists the reviewer (author), a short description of the change made. Additionally, revision clouds are used to draw attention on modified areas of the drawing.
In practice, there are situations when the model modifications should not be marked as revision. The drawings can be updated without revision mark using the Force update button.
The drawing will be updated to suit the model, but the modification will not be indexed in the revision table.
In practice, there are situations when the model modifications should be marked as revision in order to keep track of changes. The Document Manager allows For these The drawings can be updated with revision mark using the Revision update button.
The previous revision of the document will be moved to a Backup folder within the Project\Details folder. Additionally, revision clouds can be used to draw attention on modified areas of the drawing.