Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
Smart Client DWG Editor

Getting Started with the Drawing Tools: Overview

As part of your project data, you may want to include CAD (Computer-Aided Drawing) drawings. For example, you can have CAD drawings of each of your buildings' floors, and these floor plan drawings can include such information as the floor's boundary and the boundaries of the rooms, suites, and vertical penetration areas located on the floor. You can also include other information, such as depictions of your furniture, equipment, and telecom devices.

If you include CAD drawings in .DWG format in your project data, ARCHIBUS can embed them in reports, open them for editing with the Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the Smart Client DWG Editor and link their content to your database.

In tracking your facilities data with ARCHIBUS, it is not essential that you develop floor plan drawings. Some users may find that an alphanumeric record of their facility is sufficient. They document their facility with database records and then analyze this data with the program's many alphanumeric reports. Other users may get started with facilities management by first developing a project database and then later adding floor plan drawings to their project.

Drawing Preferences are set from the Smart Client using the Setup/Preferences command on the Ribbon. See Setting Drawing Preferences.

Note: If you do not intend on graphically representing your facilities information in CAD drawings, you may wish to skip this and the other drawing sections in ARCHIBUS Help.

Note: ARCHIBUS also supports an Extension for Revit. See Smart Client Extension for Revit: Overview.

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