BIM Coordinator Program (INT) April 22, 2024

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Document version control systems

TomWaltz
Participant
We often deal with government agencies, which require us to re-submit drawings with only certain changes made. Since the project has often been in production for a long time since, the current Archicad project files are much further along.

This problem is that this often leads to us having to keep multiple versions of our files, which leads to all kinds of coordination nightmares.

Is anyone using a document version control software that they can comment on?
Tom Waltz
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Djordje
Ace
TomWaltz wrote:
Is anyone using a document version control software that they can comment on?
Did you check Columbus by Arup?

http://www.oasys-software.com/product/dm/columbus/
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
TomWaltz
Participant
Looks like a nice product, but does not appear to work for Mac OS X (as in my signature)
Tom Waltz
Djordje
Ace
TomWaltz wrote:
Looks like a nice product, but does not appear to work for Mac OS X (as in my signature)
OOPS
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Rakela Raul
Participant
good info mr moderator....nice viewer, im sorry the free version (or all)
doesnt 'view' pln or lbks..it does work for dwg and dgn and pictures.
MACBKPro /32GiG / 240SSD
AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
Eduardo Rolon
Moderator
Check ArchiOffice it is a database solution based on filemaker...
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
AC27 US/INT -> AC08

Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
another Moderator

Anonymous
Not applicable
Buzzsaw will do it too.
Djordje
Ace
Rakela wrote:
good info mr moderator....
Welcome ...
Rakela wrote:
nice viewer, im sorry the free version (or all)
doesnt 'view' pln or lbks..it does work for dwg and dgn and pictures.
AFAIK nothing except ArchiCAD and PlotMaker does. Maybe it is high time something does?

On a more realistic note - the general documentation concept is still based on paper thinking, therefore one would expect a document management solution to view stuff that is also one file per sheet of paper and mostly 2D in terms of engineering documentation based.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Djordje
Ace
Cole_Construction wrote:
Buzzsaw will do it too.
So would Tejari ... 😉

www.tejari.com
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Rakela Raul
Participant
i have been try'g to buy some licenses of columbus (oasys) and they dont return calls.....they dont want to sell it........very bad service
MACBKPro /32GiG / 240SSD
AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
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