New ECHO Drawing Management System by DCM coming soon...

The preview of the latest ECHO DMS release by DCM looks awesome.  Have a look here.  My previous company had tonnes of CAD drawings.  We used to store them on Windows network file systems and later on SharePoint with some very basic metadata.  By a proper Drawing Management System like ECHO would have been a huge boost to productivity.  The expense of not working from the latest drawing can be enormous.

Document Check-out Done Right

The Drawing Management System (DMS) by DCM has a revision control feature I very much like.  Not only does it support the typical check-in comments, but also check-out comments.  It's nice to know not only who, but why and when my colleague has the document checked-out.  Putting a simple content to this transaction can save a phone call or email in the process if I see that they just have the drawing or document just out for a few minutes or many weeks, and have forgotten about their check-out. 

As a manager, it can also help me keep tabs on the work in progress of my staff without pestering them for updates.

http://dcminc.ca/drawing-tip-2-check-in-check-out/