Managing a construction project involving several hundreds or even over thousand of blueprints is a challenge. Not long ago, these would be printed on paper and required big tables to view them each time we would need to check them. Implementing revisions of architectural designs and having all players in a project (constructor, subcontractors, owner, architects,...) stay in sync with these changes wasn't easy, to say the least.
Nowadays, blueprints are distributed electronically on pdf files. This is an improvement. But another challenge still remains.
Architects draw each blueprint at a time and give it a drawing number. Detail call-outs refer to those numbers. But if you have a hierarchy of folders containing your project of say 500 drawings, how to you quickly browse through multiple details?
The solution is to take those pdf's and add hyperlinks to each call-out referring to the corresponding pdf file. Then browsing through the project's drawings becomes like surfing the internet: you just click on each call-out and its pdf opens automatically.
That is hyperlinking. And at Vellgraphy.com they do that automatically.
Managing a construction project involving several hundreds or even over thousand of blueprints is a challenge. Not long ago, these would be printed on paper and required big tables to view them each time we would need to check them. Implementing revisions of architectural designs and having all players in a project (constructor, subcontractors, owner, architects,...) stay in sync with these changes wasn't easy, to say the least.
Nowadays, blueprints are distributed electronically on pdf files. This is an improvement. But another challenge still remains.
Architects draw each blueprint at a time and give it a drawing number. Detail call-outs refer to those numbers. But if you have a hierarchy of folders containing your project of say 500 drawings, how to you quickly browse through multiple details?
The solution is to take those pdf's and add hyperlinks to each call-out referring to the corresponding pdf file. Then browsing through the project's drawings becomes like surfing the internet: you just click on each call-out and its pdf opens automatically.
That is hyperlinking. And at Vellgraphy.com they do that automatically.