Electronic Standards DOTD at the Crossroads Plans Management

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Electronic Standards
DOTD at the Crossroads
Plans Management and Distribution Seminar Baton
Rouge, LA March 9, 2006 Presented by Hollis Ward

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LA DOTD Electronic Standards

• Presentation Overview
• Electronic Plans A Team Effort
• Software Standards
• The Road to Electronic Publishing
• How Standards Facilitate E-Publishing
• CADD Standards Compliance System
• How Standards Facilitate E-Collaboration

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LA DOTD Electronic Standards

• Electronic Plans - A Team Effort
• 2001-2002 Hollis Ward and Allison Schilling
  developed DGNconform standards that would
  eventually be required and presented at
  Transportation Conference and later Seminar.
• 2003-2005 Plans Management Committee laid
  groundwork for printing, e-publishing and
  e-collaboration platforms.
• 2005 Process Improvement Team 7.6 was given a
  mandate to finish the job and developed a plan of
  action.
  
• 2005-2006 Team 7.6 and IT Section are executing
  plan.

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• Plans Management Committee
• Responsibilities
• Reproduction system
• Electronic Collaboration Platform
• Electronic Publishing Platform

• Tasks
• Evaluate needs
• Evaluate available systems and components
• Draft specifications for systems and components

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• Process Improvement Team 7.6
• Responsibilities
• 7.6.1 - Electronic Standards
• 7.6.2 - Electronic Collaboration
• 7.6.3 - Electronic Publishing

• Tasks
• Tie up loose ends
• Identify constraints and resources needed
• Draft plan of action
• Execute plan

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Software Standards For DOTD and
Consultants Disclaimer New minimum standards are
posted on the following slides and are subject to
change. Watch for up-to-date downloads and more
detailed specifications to be posted on DOTD web
site by April 1, 2006. Current web downloads do
not reflect new standards stated herein.
www.dotd.louisiana.gov/ gt Doing business with
DOTDgtCADD Resources Call or email specified
contacts as needed.
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• Electronic Collaboration Platform
• Bentley ProjectWise V8.5 (2004)
• Contact David Ringuette (IT Section)
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)

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• Electronic Publishing Platform
• Falcon SVP
• Contact Sarah Collins (IT Section)
• Contact Udeme Edoho (IT Section)
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)

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• CADD Platform
• Bentley MicroStation V8.5 (2004 Edition)
• Contact CADD Support (225.379.1612)
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)

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• Plotting Software
• Bentley InterPlot V8.5
• Contact CADD Support (225.379.1612)
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)

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• Road Design
• Bentley Inroads V8.2
• Contact Steve Perault (Road Design)
• Contact Allison Schilling (District 62)

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• Hydraulics Drafting
• Bentley Inroads Storm and Sanitary V8.2

• Hydraulics Design
• Hydrwin (considering Inroads and others)

Contact Sarah Golz (Road Design)
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• Survey
• Bentley Inroads
• Inroads Survey V8.5 - Final Edited Survey
• Inroads V8.2 - Survey Geometry / Alignment
• Inroads V8.2 - Digital Terrain Model
• Sokkia - Data Collector Files
• Survey CAD Workspace, Feature Codes, etc.
• Contact Huntington Hodges (Location Survey)

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• CAD Redlining and As-built Drawings
• Bentley Redline V8.5 (2004 Edition)
• Contact David Ringuette (IT Section)
• Contact Tom Landry - As-builts (District 61)

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• CAD and Indexing Standards
• Altiva ControlCAD
• CADconform - CAD Standards
• CADconform - CAD Digital Signatures
• Indexer - Drawing Attributes
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)
• Contact Allison Schilling (District 62)

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• Electronic Drawing Reader
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0

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• PDF Digital Signatures
• Under Review
• Contact Hollis Ward (Bridge Design)

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The Road to Electronic Publishing
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Old Reality
E-Publishing A Driving Force for E-Standards
New Reality
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Print Drawing to Film
Print Drawing to Film
Sign/Seal
Sign/Seal
Transmit
Transmit
Scan Film to Memory
Scan Film to Memory
Scan Film to TIFF
View/Print on
Demand Sections/Districts
Print Bid Sets
Print Bid Sets
8-80 sheets per cycle
8-80 sheets per cycle
Publishing Workflow 2003
Publishing Workflow 2004
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Print Drawing to Film
Sign/Seal
Transmit
Scan Film to TIFF
Send TIFF to Falcon
Download on Demand Sections/Dis
tricts Contractors (Deliver Set)
Print on
Demand Reproduction Via New Oce TDS 800
(Bid Sets/Submittals)
View/Print on
Demand Sections/Districts Contractors
Publishing Workflow Early 2006
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Digitally Sign/Seal CAD


Print Drawing to PDF
Send PDF to Falcon
Download on Demand Sections/Dis
tricts Contractors (Deliver Set)
View/Print on
Demand Sections/Districts Contractors
Print on
Demand Reproduction Via New Oce TDS 800
(Bid Sets/Submittals)
Publishing Workflow to be Introduced Late 2006
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How Electronic Standards Facilitate Efficient
Electronic Publishing Workflow
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• Current Publishing Workflow Bottlenecks
• Must print drawings to matte film
• Must physically sign drawings
• Must physically deliver and assemble drawings
• Must scan drawings to file (DOTD Reproduction)
• Must index drawings at 11th hour

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• How to Eliminate Bottlenecks
• Draw to DOTD standards
• Sign drawings and sets digitally
• Deliver and assemble drawings digitally
• Print complete set to PDF at DOTD
• No more matte film to sign, print, deliver,
  assemble!
• No more scanning drawings to file!
• No more 11th hour indexing!

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Draw to DOTD standards using CADconform and DOTD
CAD workspaces
Place standards Certification Stamp
and digitally sign/seal using CADconform
Index using CADconform Indexer
Verify CAD Standards Stamp, Digital Signature and
indexing using CADconform
Standard Digital Signature methods to be
determined
Digitally Sign/Seal CAD


Print using InterPlot standard Settings Files and
Pen Tables
Print Drawing to PDF
Send PDF to Falcon
The Role of Standards in Finished Publishing
Workflow
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• Drawing Standards and Plotting Standards
  Guarantee Predictable PDF Output at DOTD.
  Otherwise
• Fonts not WYSIWYG Characters, string length,
  etc.
• Custom line styles do not print
• Display settings and resymbolization cause
  problems
• Wrong CAD line weight results in wrong PDF line
  weight
• Wrong border results in wrong plot limits and
  scale

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• Proposed Digital Authentication Methods
  Facilitate Publishing Efficiency
• Use AltivaSoft signatures for CAD drawings
• Digitally sign Title Sheet PDF
• Digitally hash delivered plan sub-sets and final
  set
• Use SHA-1 hashing for signatures and sets
• Use ProjectWise workflow and audit trail

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CADD Standards Compliance System
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• CADD Standards Compliance System
• Components
• Symbology Standards
• Standards Management Software
• Standard CAD Workspaces
• Standard Deployment Tools
• Standard Certification and E-Signature Tools

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CADD Standards Compliance System

• Standards Software - ControlCAD
• CADconform Server (Design and Districts)
• CADconform CE (Consultants)
• DeployCAD (for consultants home use)

• Standards
• CADconform Standards Database / Dictionaries
• MicroStation Workspaces (DeployCAD download)
• Inroads Preference files
• Design Manuals Deliver via DOTD web
  site

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ControlCAD - CADconform Tool Box Options and
Drafting Menu Draft to DOTD Standards
Note Name has
recently changed from to CADconform
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CADconform - Drafting Menu (expanded)
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CADconform - Feature Table Editor
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CADconform - Conform Checker in Action
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CADconform - Report Generator
Reports, Standards Certification Watermark,
Digital Signature
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Standards Certification Watermark
Placed in files that are compliant to standards
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CADconform - User Manager
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ControlCAD - DeployCAD
Downloads DOTD CAD resources.
Creates project workspace on consultant
computer.
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• CADconform Functions - Review
• Feature Table Manager creates standards database
  
• Drafting Menu draws using standards
• Conform checks and corrects drawing elements
• Report Manager generates reports on standards
  status and
• Integrates with PWise to process drawings
• Creates and checks certification and signature
  stamps
• Checks indexing completeness
• User Manager manages DOTD users

Denotes functions not available in Consultant
Edition (CE) (Feature Table Manager is read
only)
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• CAD Standards Compliance System
• Facilitates standards certification
• Facilitates predictable printing results
• Facilitates unified publishing workflow
• Enhances E-Collaboration (next)

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How Electronic Standards Facilitate Electronic
Collaboration
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• Standards That Facilitate E-Collaboration
• Standard software (discussed earlier)
• CAD Standards Compliance System (discussed
  earlier)
• Collaboration platform (Falcon SVP-QA)
• Collaboration platform (ProjectWise)
• Attribute search Environment (ProjectWise and
  Falcon)
• Plan Production Workflow/Security (ProjectWise)
• Project Template (ProjectWise)
• Interfaces (ProjectWise)

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Falcon SVP QA Extension
Facilitates, documents and publishes contractor
discussions with DOTD Project Manager (for QA
and RFI)
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ProjectWise
Manages DOTD plan production and e-collaboration
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ControlCAD Indexer
Offline Indexer for DOTD and
Consultants
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ProjectWise Attributes Page
Indexer (below) also integrates with ProjectWise.
See next 2 slides
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Indexer provides QA/QC - ProjectWise Falcon
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Falcon SVP - Search
Imports attributes from ProjectWise and Indexer
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• ControlCAD Indexer Functions
• Enables DOTD/Consultants to index drawings
  before delivery
• Ensures that all applicable attributes are
  indexed
• Integrates with ProjectWise and Falcon
• Sends index and drawing to ProjectWise and
  Falcon
• Sends index and drawing from ProjectWise to
  Falcon
• Can be used to index or QA/QC index in
  ProjectWise

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ProjectWise Workflow Example
Manages Project status and related security
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ProjectWise Security Example
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• E-Standards - Common Sense Advantages
• Standard collaboration platforms (ProjectWise,
  Falcon)
• Standard, efficient publishing workflow
• Standard electronic tools and data formats
• Project Team shares same playing field
• Project Team speaks the same language
• Drafters easily revise each others drawings
• Details can be reused with minimum modification
• Indexed drawings can be searched easily
• Productivity killers eliminated!

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• Ultimate Result
• Quality
• Consistency
• Efficiency

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