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Entry-level Collaboration Based on Microsoft SharePoint


Advantages

Manage, Find and Share Effectively

Microsoft Office SharePoint is the fastest growing server technology from Microsoft ever. With 75 million users worldwide, in less than three years, you can see why. ProjectWise StartPoint enables users of MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, and AutoCAD to connect directly to a SharePoint server in order to manage, find, and share all CAD content, project data, and office files.  

Managing Reference Files

Solve the age-old problem of CAD Reference file management. ProjectWise StartPoint connects MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, and AutoCAD to your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for CAD and Reference file management. Thanks to ProjectWise StartPoint your projects need never again lose their Reference File attachment settings.  

Fast Finding

A U.S. government report claims that 40 percent of an engineer’s day is spent finding and validating information. Thankfully with ProjectWise StartPoint help is but a click away. ProjectWise StartPoint has a built-in search engine which empowers teams to push a button to locate any file of choice. As a result of faster finding teams can spend less time slow searching and more time processing critical design issues.  

Publishing to PDF

MicroStation V8 XM Edition can publish all CAD data from DGN and DWG files to the industry standard PDF file format. When integrated with ProjectWise StartPoint, all PDF files can be saved directly onto the Microsoft Office SharePoint server for online review and markup by the wider project team. With ProjectWise StartPoint collaboration is made simple.  

Faster Project Start-Up Times

Benefit from faster project start-up times. Using ProjectWise StartPoint templates a new project can be configured in around three minutes with all associated SEED file, folder structures and access controls. Can you get faster than that with your traditional mapped network folders? We think not.  

CAD Standards Compliant

MicroStation workspaces are used by teams to define project structures in a shared CAD environment. Using ProjectWise StartPoint, designers can associate their workspace settings with individual DGN files for improved standards compliance. As a result projects managed using ProjectWise StartPoint will benefit from improved project quality and increased consistency of project data.  

Check - In / Check-Out Functionality

Successfully administer file access control using check-in/check-out functions with ProjectWise StartPoint and Microsoft Office SharePoint. Users will benefit from file locking during the editing process so that only one set of revisions can be made at a time. In this way ProjectWise StartPoint empowers teams to manage the division of work using simple, easy to learn tools for maximum advantage.  

Managing Design with Versions

Great designs are rarely conceived overnight. Indeed, great design evolves over time with due consideration, and frequent and numerous iterations. With ProjectWise StartPoint each design iteration can be stored as a separate version making it easier to plot the course of design development and to evaluate options on the way. Indeed, with each edit to a CAD file the user has the ability to record the changes as a version upon check-in.  

Coordinated Document Packages

Infrastructure projects are distributed and necessarily collaborative. ProjectWise StartPoint provides a single place to manage find and share project and CAD data. And when integrated with the MicroStation Project Explorer, ProjectWise StartPoint can manage Link Sets between DGN and DWG files, Microsoft Office files, and Adobe’s PDF drawing files. The result is coordinated and hyperlinked work packages for increased project consistency.  

Project Calendars and Threaded Discussions

As ProjectWise StartPoint is built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies it benefits from all of the system architecture inherent in SharePoint. Online Calendars help organizations to keep track of deadlines and manage project schedules and threaded discussions act as a virtual meeting place for everyone to share critical project information.
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