Xenmark/Use cases

Ways to use Xenmark for PDF drawing review

From marking up a single drawing to coordinating comments across a full review, Xenmark gives teams one workspace for working through PDF drawing feedback.

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The workflow

A drawing review from start to finish

1

Upload

The PDF drawing set as it was issued.

2

Invite

The people who need to comment on it.

3

Mark up

Comments placed where they apply.

4

Discuss

Replies against the comment itself.

5

Resolve

Comments tracked as they are addressed.

6

Export

A comment plan PDF and an Excel register.

Use the whole workflow, or use Xenmark for the part of the review process you need.

Use cases

Explore Xenmark by use case

Each one is a different way into the same review, and a single project may use several of them.

Drawing review

Bring drawings, reviewers, markups and discussion together in one shared review.

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PDF markup

Add visual markups, comments, measurements and symbols directly to technical PDF drawings.

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External drawing review

Collect feedback from clients, consultants, suppliers and other external reviewers.

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Drawing comment tracking

Keep comments, replies and their current status organised throughout the review.

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Revision review

Continue working through feedback as updated drawing revisions are issued.

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Drawing approval

Structure the review when drawings need to be checked and accepted before work moves on.

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Where they fit

Use Xenmark for one step or the whole review

The six above are not six separate products. They are the same review at different points, and they overlap — a drawing review may use several of them from the first markup through to the final revision.

Review

Getting feedback onto the drawing at all.

Coordinate

Handling feedback once more than one party is involved.

Follow up

Carrying the review forward once drawings start changing.

The difference

Replace the handover between PDFs, email and spreadsheets

Most drawing reviews already work. They just take a lot of assembling.

A typical review

  1. PDF
  2. Email
  3. Marked-up PDF
  4. Spreadsheet
  5. More email
  6. Revised PDF

With Xenmark

  1. Drawing
  2. Markup
  3. Discussion
  4. Status
  5. Revision
  6. Export

Email and spreadsheets do not have to disappear. They are still how a drawing arrives and how a review gets handed over, and that is by design. What changes is the middle. The active review does not have to be reassembled by hand from six places every time someone asks what the current position is, and the Excel comment register and matching comment plan PDF come out of the review rather than being maintained alongside it.

Underneath

The tools behind the workflows

Drawing markup

Pin, rectangle and callout annotations, placed on the part of the drawing the comment is about.

Comments and replies

Numbered comments with replies threaded underneath the one they answer.

Review status

A status on every comment, so what is still open is visible at a glance.

Revision history

Comments stay tied to the revision they were raised against as new ones arrive.

Measurements and symbols

Length, polylength, perimeter and area calibrated to the page scale, plus five review symbols.

Excel export

A comment register listing every comment, numbered to match the comment plan PDF.

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