In the age of information technology drafting techniques are also evolved from traditional sheet-based drafting to the Computer Aided Drafting/Design. Today we have many CAD software available and used effectively by major of Mechanical organization. Now we are transiting into the world of AI and ML. This is time to look forward to effectively fit this into drafting.

As part of my job often to reach CAD users and find out how their life can be made easy. Thought may come in mind information technology had already made drafters life free from sheet, pencils, erasers, big drafters and many more tools to just new tools screen, mouse and keyboard. But now we are transiting into the world of AI and ML world. Why drafters stay behind of this technology. There we go for using customization technologies available with the CAD application.

CAD customization can make drafter life in many ways like reducing number of mouse clicks, bulk file format conversions, extract metadata, cleanup, drawing checks, referenced parts, model drafting reports and many more. Not only drafter but we can ease life of reviewers like automate model validation, generating report, bulk status assignment, model cleanup, identify changes made specific to review, integrating the CAD applications with different application and many more.

Getting into the world of CAD Customization for an organization is not a single day or a week task it is continuous process. This involves support from every level from organization, I have tried to list down basic expectation from individual level.

Expectations from Drafter

·         Identify and list down one time activity and repetitive activities performed in CAD application.

·         Highlighting pain areas into the drafting process.

·         Share findings with management to reduce the drafting time.

Expectations from Reviewers

·         Listing standard validation required on any model come for review.

·         Time tracking of drafters to for task.

Expectations from Management Team

·         Setup frequent calls with design team to get the customization requirement.

·         Appoint CAD customization engineer or tie up with the consultancies provides CAD Customization solutions.

It is time to gear up and get an advantage CAD Customization technology available with almost all CAD Packages. This will lead to reducing the design cycle time and work efficiently during strict timeline specially organizations those want to work on reducing time to market (TTM).