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 Cadalyst Review - Excelize Detail Manager 2.0

Every architect would agree that their libraries of pre-drawn details and symbols are fragmented, disorganized and not conducive to efficient and productive usage.

Excelize Detail Manager is a powerful software application that solves this problem. It catalogs and manages your entire library of drawings, components and details in a comprehensive and searchable database. Designed exclusively for architects, Excelize Detail Manager will save you time while increasing productivity and efficiency. It centralizes all your files in a single location and makes it easy to manage, search, retrieve and reuse those components.

As a stand alone software application, Excelize Detail Manager runs independent of AutoCAD® or can be configured to automatically load with AutoCAD. With features such as parameter searching, enlarged viewing, and previewing multiple search results, Excelize Detail Manager now makes your details and drawings work for you, instead of you working to find, update and reuse them!


Customer Quotes

"We have been using the Excelize Detail Manager to organize and mange our detail library for many months now and are very pleased with its features and functionality. The application has an easy to use graphical interface and extensive search capability,. With the administrator login, we can catalog our details according to CSI divisions and automatically generate the file names to help maintain consistency. It’s now very easy and convenient for our architectural staff to perform searches for details in our library. They can easily review search results, select the details they need and add them to their drawings. We have used Excelize Cataloging service to get a jump start on cataloging and managing hundreds of details in our library. Coupled with the cataloging service, Excelize Detail Manager is a very powerful tool that improves efficiency, promotes re-use and helps improve the quality of our drawings."

Cynthia Hadley, CAD Manager – Hunt Hale Jones Architects.


Features & Benefits

•         Application can run in stand-alone mode or from within AutoCAD. Use on PC's without
          AutoCAD.
•         Configure application to run over the network or on an invidual PC.
•         Application supports administrator mode for cataloging and user mode for searching and
          viewing details.
•         Easy to use to graphical user interface for cataloging details
•         Use custom or standard CSI divisions, conditions, components to organize and catalog files.
          This promotes consistent standards across the company.
•         The details are copied in the appropriate CSI Division folders based on cataloging rules you
          define.
•         Rule-based automatic filename generation for consistency and convenience
•         Catalog files using different criteria like project name, client name, user, date etc.
•         Very powerful, fast and efficient database engine that support searching for details based on
          multiple criteria.
•         Extensive search capabilities based on as many or as few criteria.
•         Preview multiple search results, compare details, review catalog information on each detail as
          you navigate back and forth thru result set.
•         Double-click to view large image that you can zoom, rotate or print.
•         Batch print multiple details from AutoCAD or print directly from preview window.
•         Insert as block, XRef or open detail file in AutoCAD.
•         Copy selected details to project directory for easy transmittal.
•         Application can be easily customized for your particular needs.


New features in Excelize Detail Manager 2.0:

•         Ability to completely customize how drawings and details are cataloged and stored in directory.
•         Ability to customize what fields to enter in the Search and Catalog screen.
•         A new fast keyword search column.
•         A new user interface that allows more efficient and convenient searches


System Requirements

Excelize Detail Manager requires the following minimum hardware and software:

•         Intel® Pentium® processor / AMD Athlon®
•         Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
•         128MB of RAM
•         AutoCAD 2000/ 2002/ 2004/ 2005 / 2006 / 2007


Pricing

For just $350 per license, Excelize Detail Manager puts your entire history of drawings, details and components at your fingertips with customizable and searchable parameters. You can purchase additional user licenses at a cost of $75 per license.


Cataloging Service

A separate and optional cataloging service is available to organize and import existing drawing and details into Excelize Detail Manager. Within weeks, all previously used components and details will be searchable and retrievable in such a way that productivity gains will be immediately visible. Ask us about this service.