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Engineering time check / Documentation publishing

Your engineers were hired to engineer. Not to export PDFs.

Every PDF, DXF and STEP file manually generated, checked, renamed and shared costs time. Find out how much engineering capacity your team could reclaim.

✓ 1-minute calculation✓ Instant results✓ No form needed
Calculate your time →
Your team, your numbers

How much time goes into publishing files?

Move the sliders to model your own engineering workflow. The initial numbers are illustrative assumptions, not industry benchmarks.

10
100
2.5 min
€45
85%
Your annual opportunity
500 hEngineering time currently spent per year
425 hPotential annual hours recovered
53 daysEquivalent 8-hour working days
€19,125Potential annual engineering capacity value

Estimated capacity value, not a guaranteed cash saving or financial ROI. Results assume 12 months of activity and an 8-hour working day. Automation performance depends on your actual workflow.

Discuss your workflow →
Where time disappears

It's never just one export.

A finished CAD design often triggers a chain of routine publishing steps before purchasing or production can use it.

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Generate

Produce PDF drawings, DXF profiles, STEP models and other deliverables.

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Check & name

Confirm versions, naming conventions, destination folders and required formats.

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Deliver & repeat

Send documents to purchasing or production, then repeat as designs change.

From manual steps to automated publishing

What if the files were ready when the team needed them?

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Define the trigger

Use the appropriate Vault workflow event or job to start document publishing.

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Generate consistently

Configure automated output for the required formats and company rules.

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Make files available

Publish to the defined location or downstream process and reduce repetitive manual handling.

Make engineering hours count

Recover time for design, not repetitive file handling.

With coolOrange powerJobs, engineering teams can automate repeatable document publishing processes in Autodesk Vault. Explore which parts of your workflow could benefit.

Talk to a workflow specialist →
Engineering time usage series

More workflows worth measuring

Documentation publishing

PDF, DXF and STEP files for purchasing and production.

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Items & BOM to ERP

Measure the hours spent recreating items and transferring bills of materials.

Upcoming time check

Customer change requests

Explore time spent routing requests between sales, engineering and stakeholders.

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