
Line types and thicknesses, computer-aided dimensioning functions, implementation of technical drawing standards, and the like are the focus.įor a long time, CAD systems were perceived and used as universal tools for all digital modeling in architecture as well as in mechanical engineering. Consequently, the data models and formats of CAD systems today are still oriented to the basic requirements of technical drawing. they were intended to enable technical draftsmen to generate their documents computer-aided. However, CAD applications were initially developed as digital drawing boards, i.e. Technically, digital floorplans of plants have often been realized in CAD systems. equipment or inventory lists, maintenance plans, room books, or CAM information on the plants. In addition, further documents were necessary, e.g. Often, for reasons of expense, this was also only executed as a two-dimensional floor plan of the machine arrangement. It was an essentially geometric representation of the space condition. At that time, it actually had the character of a drawing in the sense of documentation where something is arranged in the factory. If we look back to the time of the turn of the millennium, the factory layout was just one of many documents describing the structure and function of the factory. The impact of digitization on plant floor plans

The reason for this – you guessed it – is the developments in IT and digitization.

Because in recent decades, both the way plant floor plans are created and their potential benefits have changed considerably. Of course, the questioning title of this blog is rhetorical.
