Re: Nuxeo Document Management for the Construction Sector

Hi All 

CAD type files as you both identify are prevelent in many industries. The best document management system
for the CAD / AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry have all had integration points
into the most commaon cad format (Autocad-DWG), for the purpose of:
    1) autocad client integration (check-in, check-out, etc).
    2) Publishing revision information from the document repository, directly into the cad drawing revision
history panel. 
    3) Printing directly from the document system via the CAD files. 
    4) Interpretation of multiple viewports onto the same CAD file as seperate (but linked) documents in the
document management system (i.e. different views of the same CAD file). 

etc. 
It would be interesting to see how hard that type of integration would be.

The above is probably the harder side of the integration compared to the issue management, which is
literally just providing a new tagging system on each document to label them with the type and revision of
the issue. Then provide automatic links for the recipients to receive update information on those files
that have been tagged with the issue information. 

Are there any other types of works that you believe a AEC client would need? 

My initial thoughts, 

James