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What is AutoPREP?

We are also solving what we feel after using AutoSPRINK® on some very, very large projects is the biggest problem of all- importing, exporting and cleaning up the enormous AutoCAD drawing files on these huge projects. Cleaning up large drawings and continually issued revisions is a a big issue and is needed no matter what CAD format you are using. We have developed an AutoCAD automated cleanup wizard that makes this task almost instantaneous. Drawings that took nearly 40 hours to cleanup are being completed in less than ten minutes. The wizard also has a “learn” mode that remembers what the user did to clean up the drawing previously per architect and can be set per drawing as well. Then the next time a revised drawing is received the user can import it exactly as he wants with the push of a button. We plan on making the routine a part of AutoSPRINK® immediately after release and take it to the next step to automatically highlight the changes in the revised drawing (such as moved or added walls), etc.

Can you explain more about AutoPREP?

It is now not only automatically cleaning up all the drawings but also flawlessly converting all beams from simple lines to 3D objects. Try to imagine only one person preparing all design drawings including clean-up and beam conversion to elevation for all its designers for a 150 million dollar backlog of work! That also includes constant revision updates and additions. We will be adding its capability to the next release of AutoSPRINK® so AutoCAD import and constructing a 3D model will be almost automatic as revising a drawing will be.

Can you explain more about AutoPREP?

It will not onlyclean-up cad files prior to design it will automatically prepare the entire set of drawings based on what was done on the initial drawing of the set. From then on it will remember everything done to the set to make revision drawing input literally a push of a button. It will also highlight all revision changes within the new drawing for immediate recognition for re-design and/or pricing. A second licensing feature will be automated simple 2-D line design into a 3-D internally intelligent model. 3-D beam conversion is now complemented with 3-D column conversion. In AutoSPRINK® we can then automatically add 2-D wall conversion combined with the 3-D columns for automated roof planes and “raise to roof” features. We are also implementing object enablers for importing 3-D elements as well. It will soon be much simpler to utilize the non-AutoCAD AutoSPRINK® program than to use any AutoCAD based design package.