Take a look at the Traditional Paper Process – plotting-distribute-markup-return- revise-republish at a minimum this involves 4 plus days. Also consider the delays involved in distributing designs, the out of date information that was just distributed, and the biggest of them all not able to track these modifications which turn into costly mistakes.

Implementing a paperless Design Document Reviewing Process with Autodesk Design Review is easy and helps in eliminating the costs associated with plotting, the paper, shipping, and technicians. Autodesk Design Review is a tool to accelerate design workflows which help to Publish, Share, and View design documents. This free viewer provides team members easy access to fully visualize drawings.

By utilizing Design Review, Change Requests which are required throughout the construction process, are significantly reducing the time for reviewing and approval not to mention the reduction in printing and shipping costs.

Autodesk Design Review has a menu section called Markup and Measuring which contains tools including Callouts, Draw, Measure, and Stamps. It also provides an area for Symbols but there are none provided by Autodesk requiring a User to create.
To help in the implementation of Autodesk Design Review we have developed a complete Set of Symbols (Over 80) including Audio Video, Communications, Controls, HVAC, Lighting Electrical, Security, and Markups. These sets are based on the Approved Standard set of Architectural Symbols utilized by Architects, Designers, Contractors, and System Integrators.

Obviously, these Markup Symbols will improve communications; reduce turnaround time, fees associated with printing and sending out revision drawings.

What would you expect to pay for Autodesk Design Review Symbols that combine the Architectural Standards utilized by 1,000’s of Architects, Designers, Contractors, and System Integrators? You will need to spend over 40 hours to attempt to come close to what designecentral Markup Symbols provides – and that could cost you more than $4,000 for an AutoCAD Designer at $100/ hour.

But the designecentral Markup Symbols doesn’t even cost half of the cost to generate them yourself. Your investment, including upgrades & support, is only $99. That’s only a small fraction of the cost of doing it on your own.

Now that you’ve read and watched this video, I’m sure you realize that you must get a copy of the designecentral Markup Symbols now so you can begin to improve your process.