The Next Productivity Leap for the AEC Industry

Capturx enables building design and construction teams to collaborate quickly and naturally with pen and paper while keeping it all digital. CAD systems have revolutionized the way buildings are designed. These all-digital design environments facilitate greater creativity and collaboration among design and building teams. Teams can quickly iterate on designs – whether it’s based on the feedback of clients, engineers or contractors. While the productivity gains from CAD for designers have been remarkable, pen-and-paper-based markup and collaboration continue, stifling the promise of high-speed, all-digital collaboration.

Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) drawings often contain huge amounts of information which are best viewed in large formats. Even the largest of computer displays typically only provide a small window view of these large documents. As a result, teams usually still print or plot drawings onto paper both to work with them individually and in sets of multiple drawings.

While software has made it easier to keep more of the design process digital, the convenience and productivity of reviewing and marking up paper-based designs have prevented the dream of all digital design and review. The drawbacks of pen and paper, however, are familiar. Markups often languish in the field, wait to be scanned and faxed, or remain stacked on desks before the master designs are updated. Once paper-based markups make it to the work station, a highly trained CAD professional often has to spend time interpreting the markups and doing data entry. The process is time consuming, expensive and error prone—resulting in slower design iterations and decisions based on incomplete design data.

Adapx is transforming the way that teams review designs and collaborate with Capturx for Autodesk Design Review. Only Capturx enables teams to print design drawings and mark them up with digital pens, which digitize and integrate the annotations into markup layers in Autodesk Design Review digital files.