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SpecChecker for V8/XM
Perform quality assurance checks on your MicroStation files quickly and easily!

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CAD standards adherance made easy

Quality Assurance made easy
The purpose of SpecChecker for V8/XM is to ensure design file consistency by detecting, reporting and correcting elements which do not comply with your project standards.

SpecChecker for V8/XM checks your design files and shows you all the elements which do not comply with your rules. Better yet, SpecChecker for V8/XM will correct the errors it finds, either interactively or automatically! Your choice!

SpecChecker for V8/XM analyzes and reports on elements that violate your CAD standards.

An example of how SpecChecker for V8/XM will improve the quality of your MicroStation files.
Let’s say that for a certain project all text on level "Yellow Text" should be yellow. Just build a rules file. Then tell SpecChecker for V8/XM which design files you want to check for compliance. SpecChecker for V8/XM checks your design files against the rules file just created. SpecChecker for V8/XM can also create a complete report of all detected non-compliances. Not only that, but SpecChecker for V8/XM will correct the violations automatically according to your instructions! For example, it might change all the blue text on level "Yellow Text" to yellow and move all the red text on that level to level "Red Text".

SpecChecker for V8/XM analyzes and reports on elements that violate your CAD standards.

SpecChecker for V8/XM lets you…

  • Check one design file at a time or check multiple design files with a single command.
  • Identify every design file element which does not conform to your standards.
  • Zoom in on each problem element one at a time or fix all problem elements automatically.
  • Avoid the time and tedium of manual proofreading.
  • Eliminate wasted plots by ensuring that drawings are correct before they are plotted.
  • Correct most violations automatically.
  • Ensure that design files conform exactly to client requirements.
  • Output a user-definable error message for each non-conforming element.

Just a few of the design file and element attributes supported by SpecChecker for V8/XM to check against CAD standards are:

  • Level
  • Color
  • Weight
  • Style
  • Font
  • Model
  • Type
  • Cell name
  • Text character height
  • Text character width
  • Drawing file type (V7 DGN, V8 DGN, DWG and DXF)
  • Drawing file name
  • And many more!

Pays for itself rapidly
Carefully proofing a single large design file can take a human proof reader hours or days. SpecChecker for V8/XM can do the same job in seconds catching every violation with no mistakes. That capability alone makes SpecChecker for V8/XM worth its price. But when you consider that SpecChecker for V8/XM not only detects, but corrects errors as well, it becomes obvious that SpecChecker for V8/XM will swiftly pay for itself. SpecChecker for V8/XM will save you hundreds or thousands of hours of tedious, manual proofreading and improve the quality of your design files automatically.

In batch mode SpecChecker for V8/XM will proofread and correct as many design files as you like — without human intervention. In interactive mode SpecChecker for V8/XM will zoom in on each error one at a time. You can skip to the next error, correct the error or correct all the errors in the rest of the file automatically. It’s your choice!

Call now!
For more information, call 727-442-7774 extension 9110 in the U.S. or e-mail us.



SpecChecker
Perform quality assurance checks on your MicroStation files quickly and easily!

Request more information »

CAD standards adherance made easy

Quality Assurance made easy!
The purpose of SpecChecker is to ensure design file consistency by detecting, reporting and correcting elements which do not comply with your project standards.

You simply tell SpecChecker to automatically generate a rules file (file SpecChecker uses to determine on-standard element criteria) from a design file that already meets your company’s standards (yes, it can do this!). Using this rules file, SpecChecker checks your design files and shows you all the elements which do not comply with your rules. Better yet, SpecChecker will correct the errors it finds, either interactively or automatically! Your choice!

SpecChecker — Main dialog box

New rules generation technology!
SpecChecker can now analyze the elements of MicroStation files that conform to your standards, derive what your standards are and automatically generate a rules file describing your standards!

This new functionality will save you hours of valuable production time! You’ll never again have to figure out how to get your standards into SpecChecker rule format. SpecChecker generates rules files for you! If further editing is needed after the automatic generation process, SpecChecker gives you this capability as well.

SpecChecker now generates quality assurance rules files at the click of a button!

An example of how SpecChecker will improve the quality of your MicroStation files
Let’s say that for a certain project all text on level 27 should be yellow. Just build a rules file (or automatically generate a rules file if one of your design files lends itself to the above standard). Then tell SpecChecker which design files you want to check for compliance. SpecChecker checks your design files against the rules file just created. SpecChecker can also create a complete report of all detected non-compliances. Not only that, but SpecChecker will correct the violations automatically according to your instructions! For example, it might change all the blue text on level 27 to yellow and move all the red text on that level to level 29.

SpecChecker ensures design file consistency by interactively or automatically correcting standard violations!

SpecChecker lets you…

  • Automatically generate a rules file from a design file that already meets your standards.
  • Check one design file at a time or check multiple design files with a single command.
  • Identify every design file element which does not conform to your standards.
  • Zoom in on each problem element individually or fix all problem elements automatically.
  • Avoid the time and tedium of manual proofreading.
  • Eliminate wasted plots by ensuring that drawings are correct before they are plotted.
  • Correct most violations automatically.
  • Ensure that design files conform exactly to client requirements.
  • Output a user-definable error message for each non-conforming element.

Detect errors based on any combination of the following element characteristics:
Color, level, weight, style, font, element type, number of text characters, database table, location of the element on the XY plane or within XYZ cube, properties (planar, new element, modified, locked, etc.), class, complex (or not complex), text which matches wildcards or regular expressions, cell names which match wildcards or regular expression, rotation angle (text nodes, arcs, ellipses) (2D files only), size of ellipse (primary and secondary axes), number of vertices, range block (size) of element, text justification, number of enter data fields, if arc or ellipse is circular or not, any byte value within the element, any word value, any bit or bits, any long value, any float value, text height and width in positional units or master units, graphic group number, type 9 master units, sub units per master unit, positional units per sub-unit, text node number, reference file full-file name, reference file description, reference file logical name, design file name by wildcard or check if element is a component of a specific cellname.

Correct the following characteristics automatically
Level, color, text node number, entity number, graphic group number, text height, text width, font, text Justification, line style, weight, class, property bits, rotation angle, master units, sub-units, position units, delete any element, modify any word value, modify any bit value, modify any long value, modify any float value, and others.

Pays for itself rapidly
Carefully proofing a single large design file can take a human proof reader hours or days. SpecChecker can do the same job in seconds catching every violation with no mistakes. That capability alone makes SpecChecker worth its price. But when you consider that SpecChecker not only detects, but corrects errors as well, it becomes obvious that SpecChecker will swiftly pay for itself. SpecChecker will save you hundreds or thousands of hours of tedious, manual proofreading and improve the quality of your design files automatically.

In batch mode SpecChecker will proofread and correct as many design files as you like — without human intervention. In interactive mode SpecChecker will zoom in on each error one at a time. You can skip to the next error, correct the error or correct all the errors in the rest of the file automatically. It’s your choice.

Call now!
For more information, call 727-442-7774 extension 6786 in the United States or e-mail us.

 


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Success Stories

"I've used SpecChecker to reorganize the symbology of elements in many of our design files. This saves me 85% of the work I would have had to do myself!"
Francis Le Hardy
Philips Commercial Activities
"Since we began using SpecChecker, our situation has changed completely. Our design file rejection rate for violations of specifications has decreased from eighty percent to two percent."
Jim Lewis
KMD Mapping

"If we didn't have SpecChecker, we would have to spend time developing our own crude solution. SpecChecker is robust and very functional."
R Hearn
Eastcan Geomatics
"SpecChecker is a valuable product in QC'ing large amounts of data."
Julius Burkus
BAE Systems-ADR

"SpecChecker is a necessary tool at our office because it allows me to easily correct and standardize my digital files without occupying valuable hours."
Andy Lopez
Camburas & Theodore Ltd
"I have used SpecChecker on a couple of files to check them again Illinois DOT's specs, and that has aided in finding out-of-spec elements. It works great!"
Mark Sutheard
Greene & Bradford Inc.
"When dealing with lots of CAD files like I do, I don't know how I could check all of them if I didn't have SpecChecker."
Svein-Erik Aune
"We use SpecChecker to scan all the MicroStation files we receive from our subcontractors before we deliver them. In doing so, the design files we deliver always comply with CAD standards, saving us from the re-work that would have to be done whenever files don't meet specifications."
Mike Kritz
CTE
"SpecChecker reduces the amount of man-hours we spend checking MicroStation files by 80%."
Ron Young
Utah DOT
"SpecChecker has improved our quality assurance process to the extent that we are requiring its use by our subcontractors as well."
Robin Hoban
EarthData

 

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