shipconstructor and data managment

[stephen gibson]

does shipconstructor come packaged with some sort of data management software to control not only the database but also drg approval and release status and archiving of superseeded drgs?

thanks in advance

release 05? 06? and 08?

[stephen gibson]

does anyone have any recomendations what could be used if the functionality is not there?

we are looking at software and extra costs involved. eg solidworks & inventor come with there own data managment, ironcad recomends software that costs £1000 a seat with £300 p/a M&S

[formsys]

Vault and ProductStream are the products you should look at. (both Autodesk) In practice if you buy an Inventor Pro licence you get AutoCAD and Vault included so that can work out the most cost effective package. You would use Inventor for modelling pieces of equipment and various outfit or mechanical sub-assemblies and then drop them into the ShipConstructor/AutoCAD model. ShipConstructor would be used for all your structural, pipe and HVAC.

Vault provides your basic check-in check-out capability. ProductStream provides a lot more functionality in terms of harvesting of field data, automatic DWF creation, workflow and so on. It is smart about DWG files which is what you will be issuing from.

That will work with any release of AutoCAD or ShipConstructor.

[stephen gibson]

Thankyou for the reply. What data managment functions does SC come with? apparently if you change the model you can get reports that tell you which drawings have been changed and upissued, is this correct, (R2005)? could you get by with 4 users on ship constructor, 2 structure and 2 engineering, without any further data managment software, eg using existing excel drawing registers to control release and issue?