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The model hangs at your workstation.

Until recently a laminated pdf hung at the saw station, half readable after a few weeks of dust and fingerprints. With Field-Viewer there is a screen there instead, with the 3D model on it, in the view that belongs to that station. Switch the device on and you are straight into the right view: no file to look up, no separate Vertex licence, no phone call to the drawing office for a dimension that was just not on the sheet.

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A screen on a monitor arm above a workbench. On the screen the cutting list of wall W-14 from the De Smet house, with the columns part, length and angle: two studs of 2 610 are ticked off, the row lintel 1 290 has been tapped and lights up, below it another stud, a sill of 1 200 and a rail of 3 640, with the line 6 of 14 parts and 2 sawn at the bottom. On the right of the screen that same part lies in 3D with the dimension 1 290. On the workbench below the screen lies that same lintel of 1 290 millimetres, labelled LINTEL · 1 290 beside it. At the top the version chip V7, at the bottom the buttons sawn (active), measure, layers and report.LINTEL · 1 290DE SMET HOUSE · W-14 · SAW STATIONV7CUTTING LIST3D DETAILPARTLENGTHANGLESTUD2 61090°STUD2 61090°LINTEL1 29090°STUD2 61090°SILL1 20090°RAIL3 64090°6 OF 14 PARTS · 2 SAWN1 290SAWNMEASURELAYERSREPORT

A paperless workshop: the pdf leaves the workbench

Today a pdf hangs at the workbench. After a week it curls up, after a month half the text has faded under grease and wood dust. If a dimension is missing, you put the work down and go looking for someone who can handle the CAD package.

Field-Viewer hangs a screen there instead, with the model on it rather than a flat drawing. You tap the part you are working on, and the right dimensions and connections are there with it. If something changes during production, you see it yourself, without a new pdf having to be printed and pinned up first.

On the left a printed drawing sheet, A4 portrait, with a faded wall elevation of wall W-14 and a title block reading W-14 · WALL ELEVATION, REV. 3 · 12/03 and SCALE 1:50. The total width 3 640 is on it, but the dimension from the wall corner to the window opening is missing: there is a question mark there. An arrow points to the right, to the Field-Viewer screen with the same drawing in crisp lines, version 7 from today, where that dimension 2 431 is filled in beside the total width 3 640.3 640?W-14 · WALL ELEVATIONREV. 3 · 12/03SCALE 1:50W-14 · ELEVATIONV72 4313 640

Every workstation its own view

Not every workstation needs the same drawings. At the saw station you count profiles and cutting lists, at the assembly table you build parts into a panel. Field-Viewer remembers per station which layer, which view and which dimensions matter there.

Switch the device on, and that setting is there straight away. No operator having to work through a long file list, and no risk of the wrong drawing staying open for the next shift.

Two Field-Viewer screens above each other, with the same model of wall W-14. The top screen is at the saw station and opens on the cutting list, with the columns part, length and angle: two studs of 2 610 are ticked off, the row lintel 1 290 lights up, below it another stud of 2 610, a sill of 1 200 and a rail of 3 640, with the line 6 of 14 parts and 2 sawn at the bottom. The bottom screen is at the assembly table and opens on the 3D model of that same wall: a timber frame wall of 3 640 by 2 700 with a window opening, the dimension 3 640 in front of it, and at the bottom right the layer chips timber frame and insulation on, cladding off. Both screens show version 7.SAW STATION · W-14V7CUTTING LISTPARTLENGTHANGLESTUD2 61090°STUD2 61090°LINTEL1 29090°STUD2 61090°SILL1 20090°RAIL3 64090°6 OF 14 PARTS · 2 SAWNASSEMBLY TABLE · W-14V73D MODEL3 640TIMBER FRAMEINSULATIONCLADDING

What is ready at start-up

Three workstations in the same production hall, three fixed views. You set nothing, you just switch on.

Saw station

You see the cutting list and the profiles in the order they get sawn, with the dimension of each part beside it. No wall panel, no finishing layer getting in the way of the cutting list.

Assembly table

Here the panel under construction is on screen: rails, insulation and penetrations, in assembly order. Tap a rail, and the drawing of that detail sits next to it.

Finishing and inspection

For the final check you switch to the finishing layers: cladding and connections that have to stay visible. What is approved, you tick off yourself on the screen.

From drawing office to saw station

You publish from Vertex BD the way you already do, and the rest follows by itself all the way to the workstation. Working in Revit, ArchiCAD or with an IFC export? You put those next to the model the same way.

A flow diagram with three stations. At the first station the screen of the Vertex BD CAD package, with the 3D model of wall W-14 from the De Smet house, a timber frame wall of 3 640 by 2 700 with a window opening; at the top right the version chip V7 and under the pane label the line publishing. A pipe labelled V7 published leaves that screen and branches to three smaller screens in the hall, each showing the same version V7: the saw station with the cutting list, in which two studs of 2 610 are ticked off and a lintel of 1 290 is not yet; the assembly table with the 3D model of a clad section of panel, four studs at 600 centres between two rails, and the layers timber frame and insulation on; and the inspection station with the 2D elevation of that same panel with its finishing: three sheets of plasterboard 900 high with staggered joints, cut out around the window opening, and a frame around the checked detail where the lintel bears on the window stud. Cladding and connection are ticked off beside it. From the saw station screen a second pipe runs to that same screen, larger: the drawing carries two tap points, between the wall corner and the window opening the dimension line reads 2 431, and at the bottom the measure button is on.V7PUBLISHEDVERTEX BDV7DE SMET HOUSE · W-14PUBLISHINGSAW STATIONV7CUTTING LISTPARTLENGTHANGLESTUD2 61090°STUD2 61090°LINTEL1 29090°ASSEMBLY TABLEV73D MODELTIMBER FRAMEINSULATIONINSPECTIONV72D DRAWINGCLADDINGCONNECTIONSAW STATION · W-14V72D DRAWING2 431MEASURELAYERSREPORT
A flow diagram with three stations. At the first station the screen of the Vertex BD CAD package, with the 3D model of wall W-14 from the De Smet house, a timber frame wall of 3 640 by 2 700 with a window opening; at the top right the version chip V7 and under the pane label the line publishing. A pipe labelled V7 published leaves that screen and branches to three smaller screens in the hall, each showing the same version V7: the saw station with the cutting list, in which two studs of 2 610 are ticked off and a lintel of 1 290 is not yet; the assembly table with the 3D model of a clad section of panel, four studs at 600 centres between two rails, and the layers timber frame and insulation on; and the inspection station with the 2D elevation of that same panel with its finishing: three sheets of plasterboard 900 high with staggered joints, cut out around the window opening, and a frame around the checked detail where the lintel bears on the window stud. Cladding and connection are ticked off beside it. From the saw station screen a second pipe runs to that same screen, larger: the drawing carries two tap points, between the wall corner and the window opening the dimension line reads 2 431, and at the bottom the measure button is on.V7PUBLISHEDVERTEX BDV7DE SMET HOUSE · W-14PUBLISHINGSAW STATIONV7CUTTING LISTPARTLENGTHANGLESTUD2 61090°STUD2 61090°LINTEL1 29090°ASSEMBLY TABLEV73D MODELTIMBER FRAMEINSULATIONINSPECTIONV72D DRAWINGCLADDINGCONNECTIONSAW STATION · W-14V72D DRAWING2 431MEASURELAYERSREPORT

The draughtsman publishes

You publish the project from Vertex BD the way you already do. No separate export, no second way of working to learn.

The hall sees the new version

As soon as the publication is ready, the new version is on every screen in the hall. Nobody fetches a file or prints a new pdf.

Whoever needs a dimension takes it

If a dimension is missing at the workstation, you take it from the model yourself, without ringing the draughtsman. No waiting until someone at the office has time.

See it on your own project

This autumn we are looking for five pilot companies in Flanders, workshops and sites, to keep testing Field-Viewer together. Request a demo, no obligation, and we will look at whether it suits your team.

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