Within this system, one CAD design produces the artistic rendering, the installation plan, the phase plans, the complete bill of materials with all the associated tasks and hidden materials, estimates and take-offs, quotation to the customer, RFQs for suppliers, work orders, profit margin analysis, and the other necessary documents. All this is automated by the business rules implemented in this product. And of course all default business rules are included in this product suite as a fully customizable turnkey solution. How about the medium-sized company where CAD is a strategic tool, but revenue streams are not directly tied into CAD, such as Aldershot Landscaping Inc., the largest landscaping contractor in Ontario. One of the problems facing Aldershot has been the time spent to complete the design cycle from the placement of order or change-order to finished plans.
Profit margins are narrow and customer requested changes to the plans are frequent.
Aldershot Landscaping has used other CAD and 3rd party products in the landscaping industry for many years and cannot find new significant productivity gains with these traditional products. Summary With a little bit of thought, a very good understanding of the industry workflow and modern tools, the new genre of third party developers are integrating the CAD tasks with the other parts of the computerized business solutions. This allows the companies using CAD tools to create comprehensive product models into their business processes. The real productivity gains promised by CAD vendors can be found from this integration. All rights reserved.