Late drawings idle the entire site. Outdated drawings cause rework. Lost drawings fail the audit five years later. The Drawing Management module sits between architect and contractor, tracks every drawing through four stages — required, submitted, approved, transmitted — and keeps the searchable repository for the next decade.
Every drawing the project will ever have — listed up front. Drawing Group, drawing number, title, sheet size, scale, discipline, sub-project, due date, current status. Drawing Generic Master enforces consistent numbering across projects. The register is the backbone — every other workflow plugs into it.
The architect uploads. Drawing Received Detail captures sheet, version, file, date, comments. Drawing Received Other Info adds the auxiliary metadata — title block, sheet size, scale, revision triangle. Drawing Received Amendment tracks revisions over time. Your architect reviews — approves, raises an RFI, or rejects with comments. Every loop is logged. Every version is kept.
Approved drawing → transmittal cover note → contractor signs receipt. The transmittal is the legal handoff — the moment the contractor owns the drawing, the moment any contradictory drawing in their hand goes stale. The same act drops the drawing into the repository: tagged, indexed, searchable. Five years later when the auditor asks for "the approved version of the slab reinforcement drawing dated April 14," it surfaces in seconds.
Five years from now, the auditor will ask. The site engineer who issued it will have retired. The architect's email account will have been deleted. The contractor's PDFs will be on a hard drive nobody can find. Only one place will still have it.
The MEP architect was sitting on six drawings. We didn't know — until the slab work caught up to where the conduits should have been embedded. Three weeks of rework. Now the project manager sees the pending count every morning. One screen, one number. No surprise meetings.— Project Director · Indian developer · 22 active towers · Mumbai + Bengaluru
30 minutes. We'll walk a real project drawing register — what's required, what the architect submitted, what's approved, what's transmitted. We'll show you the audit-day search. And the RFI loop that closes itself when the architect uploads the next version.