Smyrna, TN, USA June 25,2003 -- AECVizPRO, a Smyrna Tennessee firm that specializes in Computer Aided Design [CAD] consulting to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction [AEC] industries, recently completed the translation of numerous raster (image) files to vector (line) files on a major plant expansion in Oklahoma City for Lopez Foods, Inc., saving Lopez Foods approximately $80,000.00 in the process.
After a major plant expansion, Lopez Foods found themselves with un-editable raster files of their plant expansion. AECVizPRO, through the use of the latest file translation technologies, was able to save Lopez Foods significant amounts of time and money by eliminating the need for a complete re-draw of the plant expansion. According to Mike Hartman, Project Engineer for Lopez Foods,..
"After a major expansion to our plant the general contractor who was obligated to supply us with a set of electronic as built drawings. Unfortunately for us we had not specified that the drawings needed to be in an AutoCAD format. We assumed that they would be as the general contractor had requested us to send them copies of the existing structure in AutoCAD Format. But what they supplied to us as built drawings were in a .TIF Format and refused to supply us with the DWG format. As a requirement of the PSM program for our plant we must have editable drawings. The general contractor offered to set up our PSM program for $80,000.00. Our only other option was to spend around a thousand hours to redraw and document the TIF files into DWG files.
Luckily I found Mr. Hooper at AECVizPRO .He offered to convert the Files to DWG files for a few dollars each. This saved our company an enormous amount of time and money." -Mike Hartman, Lopez Foods
AECVizPRO is using this latest hardware and software to help AEC firms, both nationally and internationally, save time and money. They are using this technology to help firms solve problems and develop solutions as it relates to the AEC industry. The use of this new technology by firms like AECVizPRO, is what will make AEC firms more competitive in the future.
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D. Alan Hooper, ACADIA AECVizPRO tel. 615-243-4168 fax 615-355-9296
AECVizPRO -- Professional Consulting for the AEC Industry --providing CAD, 3D, 3D Visualization, Architectural Rendering, Translations & Programming Solutions for the Architectural Engineering and Construction Industries. http://www.aecvizpro.com
