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Many useful softwares in projects management are available now. Ms Project and Primavera are some examples of these softwares. Those programs need to be fed by information by the user. The users usually collect this information from the project and design documents. This collection process needs considerable time and efforts, and usually accompanie...
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... same process can be followed to make other application's objects available in the code of the program like MS Excel and Ms Project. As shown in figure (2). Since AutoCAD drawing is essentially a data base, extracting and conveying information about drawing entities is not necessary difficult. ...
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... In Iraq, Only (Ziyad, 2007) have been developed integrated system CIS (Computer Integrated System) for water Projects, to connect three software (AutoCAD, Excel and MS Project) using Visual Basic and ActiveX data transfer technology. This integrated system can extract the graphical information from an AutoCAD drawing and transfer it to a digital form suitable for processing in the project management software MS Excel and MS Project Due to the CIS does not have a database; unit cost, production rate, precedence of the activities should be entered by user. ...
Project management are still depending on manual exchange of information based on paper documents. Where design drawings drafting by computer-aided design (CAD), but the data needed by project management software can not be extracted directly from CAD, and must be manually entered by the user. The process of calculation and collection of information from drawings and enter in the project management software needs effort and time with the possibility of errors in the transfer and enter of information. This research presents an integrated computer system for building projects where the extraction and import quantities, through the interpretation of AutoCAD drawing with MS Access database of unit costs and productivities for the pricing and duration of tasks, then exported to MS Project and MS Excel. The system was developed by using Visual Basic and ActiveX automation technology for combining the above software. The system, also, can calculate quantities of materials. The system includes digitizer (on-screen takeoff) calculates the lengths and areas of the drawings to which the form of an image and scanned. The integrated system has been applied to case study, a storages building for hospital 260 beds. The results proved the effectiveness of the system for the conversion of information from the graphical form dwg to numerical formulas xlcx / xlc and mpp can be handled easily pleased and software are covered.
... In Iraq, Only (Ziyad, 2007) have been developed integrated system CIS (Computer Integrated System) for water Projects, to connect three software (AutoCAD, Excel and MS Project) using Visual Basic and ActiveX data transfer technology. This integrated system can extract the graphical information from an AutoCAD drawing and transfer it to a digital form suitable for processing in the project management software MS Excel and MS Project Due to the CIS does not have a database; unit cost, production rate, precedence of the activities should be entered by user. ...
Project management are still depending on manual exchange of information based on paper
documents. Where design drawings drafting by computer-aided design (CAD), but the data needed by
project management software can not be extracted directly from CAD, and must be manually entered
by the user. The process of calculation and collection of information from drawings and enter in the
project management software needs effort and time with the possibility of errors in the transfer and
enter of information. This research presents an integrated computer system for building projects where
the extraction and import quantities, through the interpretation of AutoCAD drawing with MS Access
database of unit costs and productivities for the pricing and duration of tasks, then exported to MS
Project and MS Excel. The system was developed by using Visual Basic and ActiveX automation
technology for combining the above software. The system, also, can calculate quantities of materials.
The system includes digitizer (on-screen takeoff) calculates the lengths and areas of the drawings to
which the form of an image and scanned. The integrated system has been applied to case study, a
storages building for hospital 260 beds. The results proved the effectiveness of the system for the
conversion of information from the graphical form dwg to numerical formulas xlcx / xlc and mpp can
be handled easily pleased and software are covered.
... In Iraq, Only (Ziyad, 2007) have been developed integrated system CIS (Computer Integrated System) for water Projects, to connect three software (AutoCAD, Excel and MS Project) using Visual Basic and ActiveX data transfer technology. This integrated system can extract the graphical information from an AutoCAD drawing and transfer it to a digital form suitable for processing in the project management software MS Excel and MS Project. ...
The nature of the construction industry is different from other industries, such as the manufacturing, because they have fragmentation, include a large number of participants in the project, and include many processes during the phases of the project life cycle such as design, planning and estimation, and the use of different types of computer applications software. These characteristics require the need for intensive data exchange and sharing of information graphical and textual between the parties involved in the project.
Even though most documents are generated by computer, project management processes are still depending on manual exchange of information based on paper documents. Where design drawings drafting by computer-aided design CAD, but the data needed by project management software (planning or estimation) can not be extracted directly from CAD, this must be manually entered by the user (estimator and planner). The process of calculation, collection of information from drawings and enter in the project management software needs effort and time with the possibility of errors in the transfer and enter of information, in addition, at the time of a effectual change in design or when comparing several alternatives it would require re-calculations again. This can be overcome through a more efficient utilization of information technology tools for the management of construction information processes; and integration design, cost and time.
This research presents an integrated computer system for building projects where the extraction and import quantities, through the interpretation of AutoCAD drawing with MS Access database of unit costs and productivities for the pricing and duration of tasks, then exported to MS Project and MS Excel for handled. The system was developed by using Visual Basic and ActiveX automation technology for combining the above software. The system, also, can calculate quantities of materials. The system includes digitizer (on-screen takeoff) calculates the lengths and areas of the drawings to which the form of an image and scanned.
The integrated system has been applied to case study, a storages building for hospital 260 beds. The results proved the effectiveness of the system for the conversion of information from the graphical form dwg to numerical formulas xlcx / xlc and mpp can be handled easily pleased and software are covered.
Some of the benefits of using this system is the automatic generation of quantity takeoffs directly from CAD, improve communication between design and construction, reduce data re-enter (reuse-able data), increase the speed of delivery (saving time), reduce costs (increase profits), better coordination (fewer errors), and higher productivity, so as to implementation of approach of Building Information Modeling BIM.
