Problem
- Difficult manipulation of 3D tube coordinates
- Difficult visualization of data
- Very long development time
- Persistence of data not reliable. (Saved in text file to be read by an old 20 years system)
Suggested solutions
- Custom entity creation (tubes) to be used in AutoCAD to create models
- Saving of the model in an SQL database instead of in the drawing itself
- Many wizard tools to for tube creation for any given application
Results
- Speed-up of development since tubes entity acts like they are native AutoCAD entities.
- Learning curve is limited, since users already know AutoCAD
- Models are accessible from other part of the system (reporting)
- Reduce Development time
- Reduce certain task by automating them
