Plotstream Overview for Business Owners
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 Focus on design - not plotting
Gain control of your AutoCAD® plotting
Get a realistic project snapshot
Historical look-backs
Improve team productivity
Log every plot
Plot from your desktop without AutoCAD®
Proven track record
Reduce Costs
Reduce plot training
Reduce Risk
Focus on design - not plotting
A Plotstream enabled environment allows you to refocus efforts back on what
you do best - design. Your own expert(s) set and control the plotting
environment for your corporate standards and project specifications. Your
team can
then create the plots they want, when they want them.
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Gain control of your AutoCAD®plotting
With the newfound control over plotting you can better utilize your team and
hardware resources. Plotting issues and delays are significantly reduced.
The plotting of multiple projects is easily prioritized, paused, or changed
on-the-fly. Multiple plotters can be engaged to increase productivity and
multiple Plotstream servers can significantly increase plot processing
volume. All are choices and control you did not have before.
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Get a realistic project snapshot
Since your team is continuously working on designs, plotting latency could
allow some drawings to not accurately reflect changes made to associated
drawings. Some drawings could have even been replaced or eliminated. This
could become critical when creating bills of material or ordering equipment
and material. Because Plotstream can plot an entire project set of drawings
at one time, you output a much more realistic snapshot of your project at a
specified point in time.
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Historical look-backs
Because Plotstream logs each plot, guesswork is eliminated and historical
information is easily accessible. Now you will confidently know how many
D-size plots were made for "Project XYZ" last month on the "ABC500" plotter.
Harvesting this information allows you to calculate efficiencies, project
plotting costs, throughput, consumable usage, and more. You can easily
access valuable data that can be used for marketing, estimating, budgeting,
process optimization, etc.
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Improve team productivity
Now users can create one or hundreds of plots with ease. Traditionally, each
drawing file had to be opened in AutoCAD®, configured for plotting, submitted
to the plotter. Users would then wait on the drawing to be processed on the
workstation. Each drawing could take several minutes to configure, submit,
and process. This is repeated for each drawing in the set. On a large
project this could take hours or days while the user is not drawing or
designing anything. Plotstream automates this entire process. The Plotstream
server(s) performs all of the processing - not the users' workstations.
Users are able to do what they were hired for - designing and drawing.
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Log every plot
Each plot produced through the Plotstream system is silently entered into an
easily accessible log. The logged information can be used to troubleshoot as
well as to calculate efficiencies, project plotting costs, throughput,
consumable usage, and more. Plotstream also integrates into several of the
industry leading cost recovery and print tracking systems. Plotstream data
is transparently passed to these applications without any user intervention.
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Plot from your desktop without AutoCAD®
From a workstation without AutoCAD®, you can submit AutoCAD® drawings to a
Plotstream server for processing. With all of the technical and project
specific parameters already set, virtually anyone in the enterprise can
create perfect plots. The Plotstream user interface is simple and intuitive
requiring little or no training. You no longer have to request plots from a
CAD specialist and wait for the results. With Plotstream you have the power
to plot one drawing or a set of drawings to a plotter - in another office if
desired. Extending this "CADless" workstation plotting can greatly empower
you and your team.
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Proven track record
Plotstream has been successfully implemented by on-site
services (FM) providers in several
industry leading companies where all have remained in widespread use.
Plotstream is a proven, reliable, and scaleable enterprise plotting
solution.
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Reduce Costs
Plotstream is designed from the ground-up to save resources and address the
real issues of add-ons, upgrades, integration costs, costly training, and
third-party hardware/software proliferation now faced by users in the
enterprise AutoCAD®environment. With Plotstream, you will save on AutoCAD®
licensing, third-party plot drivers, controllers, rippers, training, and
hardware. Plotstream offers an outstanding ROI that will free up valuable
resources.
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Reduce plot training
Since you or another plot expert will make most of the plotting
configuration decisions, your remaining teammates can be spared additional
training for plotting. Plot jobs (agents) can be saved to file and used as
templates. By using these agents, Plotstream users do not need to be
plotting experts to create perfect plots.
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Reduce Risk
Plotstream will reduce risks associated with project drawings by increasing
accuracy and consistency. Plotstream's project-centric methodology places
the control and responsibility of the underlying technical aspects of
plotting on your plotting expert(s) instead of relying on each plot user to
correctly make all plotting decisions. Plotstream helps reduce the risk of
releasing drawings at the wrong revision level, incomplete sets, and more.
Plotstream also uses the best plot engine available for AutoCAD® - AutoCAD®
itself. No third-party plot engines can ever plot AutoCAD®
DWGs as well as AutoCAD®. Plots
produced through Plotstream are exactly like the original AutoCAD® plots
because they are. When you release a plotted drawing set, you know it has
been produced to the specifications you require.
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