Cadac Organice has published a case study exploring the challenges of CAD Drawing Management, for collaboration internally and externally to a project team.

CAD drawings are created by CAD Engineers, but are typically being used by others, like planners, construction workers, production employees, project managers, and partners. It is therefore important that internal disciplines and external partners are able to easily access and view CAD drawings.

But how do you provide access to CAD drawings? How can users open and view CAD drawings without the original CAD application? How can you ensure that users can only view released CAD drawings? And how do you prevent users from making unauthorized changes to CAD drawings?

The case study describes a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint to help project-driven engineering industries to manage and share CAD drawings. It describes how companies with basic CAD needs can manage CAD drawings entirely in SharePoint, and how companies with PDM solutions can publish released CAD drawings to SharePoint for sharing and collaboration.

Download the case study HERE