ARCHIBUS Web Central

Adding Redlines to Drawings

Non-CAD users can add redlines to drawings to show CAD specialists the changes that need to be made to the drawing, or to clarify the location of a work request sent to a service provider. You use the Web Central drawing control to add the redlines that are then attached to a service request. The service request routes the drawing with the redlines to the appropriate person to make the drawing change, or to complete the work request, or to a business manager for review.

Adding redlines to drawings enables you to:

Indicate a location when submitting a service request
Position equipment (such as fire extinguishers) or furniture in a room, with the goal of having this equipment added to the .dwg drawing.
Request a furniture or employee move in an open plan office by drawing arrows on a floor plan to indicate the intended location.
Review changes made to a floor plan.
Review all changes made to a floor plan.

The following provides examples of when different users might add red lines to drawings:

CAD Managers when reviewing the CAD specialist's drawing changes
Department managers as a way of providing feedback to the CAD specialist on field conditions, such as, new walls, or rooms that have been joined
Enterprise users to indicate the location of a work request, such as the location of a leak or the desired location of a new desk.
Departments that are adjacent to the department creating the drawing might want to note the location of equipment that they want to see reflected as asset symbols on the floor plan. For example, the Security Department might want to have badge readers and security cameras included on the floor plan drawing.
Architects might need to review all the changes that have been made to a drawing. The redlines can serve as a record of the requested changes. For example, when an architect is updating the As-built drawings for a portion of a building prior to a renovation, it can be helpful to review all redlines made to that portion of the building in all service requests.

This topic has the following sections:

Adding Redlines
Saving Redlines

Adding Redlines

When working in the Service Request or On Demand Work applications, you can add redlines if the service request Basic Information includes a building and floor. For example, if you have done a complete survey of the floor, you might find that the As-built drawing is no longer correct, You can create a service request and make redlines on the floor plan drawing to indicate the changes that need to be made.

The following image shows the popup window for the floor plan drawing when you run the Add Redlines action.

Note the following:

The drawing control includes additional icons to add redlines: Draw Line, Draw Rectangle, Draw Arrow, Draw Position Marker, Draw Text, Clear Redlines, and Undo the last redline. Click an icon to activate it, and then click and drag on the drawing to draw. To add text, click the Draw Text (T) icon,and click and drag to create a text box on the drawing. When you release the mouse, a cursor appears in the left corner of the text box you created. Type to add the desired text.
To show room numbers on the drawing, make a selection from the labels list at the top of the screen. Any selection will include room numbers. Or, to see one room number at a time, mouse over a room and a tooltip shows the building, floor, and room number.

Saving Redlines

When you save redlines, the program saves the view of the drawing currently on the screen - including highlights, labels, and redlines - as a .png image file. If you press Save when you have zoomed in, and not all redlines are visible, a popup window appears asking if you want to keep the current view or zoom out until all redlines are visible, and then save the image file.

The image file containing the redlines is uploaded to the appropriate Document field of the service request as a file attachment.

The redlines are saved as vectors in the in the ARCHIBUS Redlines table along with all data needed to regenerate the redlined floor plan.