Revealed: What Can Scanned Drawings Do For Engineers?

One of the most important aspects of an engineer’s role is based on drawings. Drawings not only ensure that the structure being designed or built is going to be safe and viable, but it guides the construction or manufacturing team on what needs to be done and what materials are needed. Drawings are also key as a way to communicate to the key stakeholders of a structure.

Drawings aren’t easy to store or to find again once they’ve been completed. Engineers often have a large number of drawings that are difficult to file in an organised manner due to their size.

Here’s why it’s important for engineers to scan drawings:

Easy Access: There’s nothing worse than losing something, in particular in the world of business. You’ve got a customer breathing down your neck for a drawing you did a while back that is misplaced. You’re not going to be the most popular person in the company! However, by scanning drawings into an electronic format, it’s easy to access and distrubute.

Protected: Paper is clearly not plastic or steel. Drawings can be destroyed by fire,  water and even insects. Overtime the paper can degrade and the drawing could be hard to see or even distorted. Pulling out an old scrap of paper with a stain on it, will not help you to win your next client.

Portable: Drawings are not usually small or easy to carry. They need to be rolled up and then put into a special carrier in order for them to travel safely. By scanning drawings, you can pop the file onto a USB drive and magic – your drawings can easily travel even in your pocket!

Cost Saving: Scanned drawings don’t take up a lot of space but physical ones do. There’s no need to rent outside space if you’ve got them on the computer. This can save outgoings for your engineering business.

Future perspective: Engineers can easily save all their drawings for access at a later date.

Engineering drawings that have been scanned deliver greater efficiency, effectiveness and less stress for the business.