Tool Palettes are one of the most efficient ways to access block, commands and style content within AutoCAD.

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AEC Systems can create custom palettes which provide drafting staff with the commands in an efficient and logical way. Having all commands easily accessible also encourages staff to utilise commands which will increase overall efficiency in their drafting.

Palettes can be broken down to suite any company structure, whether single or multi-disciplinary. Utilising the features available will also allow companies to have their staff comply with company standards easier, through customised tool creation.

We can provide a service to create custom palettes to optimise drafting within an office, and also roll these custom palettes out Nationally (or internationally) to produce a standard across all offices within an organisation.

Many organisations have engineers/clients/contractors that need to mark up drawings for further amendment. This usually involves marker pens, photocopiers and/or fax machines.

Autodesk offer solutions to allow for markups to be done digitally, with free software that allows for a full workflow, so that all change requests and RFI can be catalogued. Even better, all digital markups link directly back into any AutoCAD based platform using the markup set manager, allowing issues to be rectified, or further comments and queries made and sent back to the originator.

AEC Systems can provide training and workshops on these solutions allowing organisations to better leverage the software that they already own.

Many companies have a very large unwieldy block library. In most cases, these static blocks are not fully utilised by staff due to either:

• The block not quite servicing the users needs, or
• The block library is so large, that navigating to the element that is required takes too long.

Covering large block libraries into rationalised dynamic block libraries allows the content to be easily access (especially when combined with AutoCADs Tool Palette functionality), and will allow more flexibility in the blocks application..

Dynamic blocks provide capabilities far beyond those of static blocks, providing the ability for one block to represent many configurations. Carefully planned parameters and actions in a dynamic block create the powerful ability to modify a block
after it is inserted.

AEC Systems can provide a service to create Dynamic Blocks either based on existing content, or created from scratch to meet a companies requirements.

AEC Systems is a member of the worldwide Autodesk Authorised Developer Network (ADN) as well as Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).

This gives us access to the latest technical information regarding each of the Autodesk products as well as Microsoft development environments and the ability to call on Autodesk and Microsoft technical experts to assist with any technical issues that may arise during the course of a development project.

AEC Systems has developed software for the following clients:

• Integral Energy
• BHP Engineering
• Westfield
• Telstra
• Woolworths
• Hatch & Associates
• McDonalds
• Halliburton KBR
• Department of Foreign Affairs
• BHP Coal
• John Holland
• Parsons Brinckerhoff
• Honeywell
• Energy Australia
• Aurecon
• Optus Communications

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