Basic CAD data management
Introduction Since it has been a while since I wrote a whitepaper I thought I'd write a short paper on basic CAD data management. I will start with some definitions about document management and also some caveats and assumptions. CAD is always the most controversial part of PLM implementations and people are much more passionate about CAD than any other system/tool that is in general use inside engineering. Document management overview - what is it? Structured Documents There is an oversimplification that abounds about document management. When I refer to document management I mean rich content documents which are made up of multiple types of data. For example a book might be made up of several word documents (one for each chapter), there could be pictures/illustrations etc and possibly other content. Document management is the process of managing the versions of each of the items that makes up the “document” and insuring that a version of the document has all the corre