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Even after all these years, CAD is still a powerful & viable tool. And possibly more powerful than users are even aware, thus the paradox that tools are only as powerful as the skill of the user. CAD will work, even inefficiently, but with potential and profit unrealized. onebutton cad solutions takes pride in helping you reclaim both.
We take satisfaction in enabling you to create, or providing you with, the most effective drawings in the most effective way! Helping you in "doing CAD right" in terms of what's right for your company, what's right for your people, and what's right for your clients. If you've ever thought, "There's got to be an easier way to do this", then we'd love to brainstorm with you. We obsess in making CAD do your dirty work for you. Let's set a time to meet or chat, learn more about what you're doing, and brainstorm on some creative ways to find that easier way.
We take satisfaction in enabling you to create, or providing you with, the most effective drawings in the most effective way! Helping you in "doing CAD right" in terms of what's right for your company, what's right for your people, and what's right for your clients. If you've ever thought, "There's got to be an easier way to do this", then we'd love to brainstorm with you. We obsess in making CAD do your dirty work for you. Let's set a time to meet or chat, learn more about what you're doing, and brainstorm on some creative ways to find that easier way.
CAD Management
Are you supporting your most valuable assets by supporting their most important tool?
We have over 25 years of CAD management experience. Regardless of your company's current CAD Manager status, onebutton cad solutions may be able to help:
Overworked CAD Managers - It's not uncommon for individuals in a CAD management role find themselves being required (at least partially) to produce billable work, taking time away from their CAD management responsibilities. We can partner with your CAD manager to take on some of the tasks that billable work has caused to be placed aside but still need tending.
Newbie CAD Managers - Maybe you're in this scenario: your previous CAD Manager is gone, and "Tag! You're it!". You're trying to make sense of your new role or understand what the heck he/she was doing! We can help understand configurations, plot settings, installations, custom programs, and other tweaks that may have been made and subsequently dumped in your lap.
No CAD Manager - Perhaps your company has recently lost its CAD Manager, or can't justify the expense of having someone in that role full-time. A "hired gun" may be just what you need to get a few things set in place or get you over a hurdle. onebutton cad solutions can partner with your company to help support your CAD users.
onebutton cad solutions is the perfect partner with you and your current CAD management efforts.
Automation
Amplify your efforts, leverage the technology, energize your people.
Tools are not worth much if you don't take full advantage of them. Automation makes it possible for you to amplify your efforts by more fully leveraging the technology that's already available within AutoCAD.
If you can walk us through a task that your users need to perform repetitively, it's very possible that task can be automated. Automation can provide you:
Freedom to design - free up designers to do try more what-if scenarios quicker.
Consistency and quality - insure consistent quality between designers.
Reduced errors - minimize or eliminate repetitive errors.
Time savings - eliminate those tedious "don't forget to" tasks that deadline pressure or distractions can cause us to overlook.
Let onebutton cad solutions help you get more done with less effort.
Customization
CAD tools are generic; your company's and clients' needs are not.
There's nothing worse than the tool you need to use getting in the way of the work you're attempting to complete. AutoCAD is a pretty generic program, but has almost limitless potential to be tailored to your specific business needs. Let onebutton cad solutions help AutoCAD get out of its own way! With customization, whether simple shortcuts or sophisticated programming, it's possible to personalize AutoCAD to be more "you-friendly" and "your business-friendly" and give you the competitive edge you need!
Let onebutton cad solutions help you tap that unused potential in the software you've invested in.
Training
The only thing worse than training an employee and have them leave, is not training them and have them stay!
Sometimes, finding that "easier way to do something" may be as simple as just becoming aware of already existing AutoCAD features that just hasn't been discovered or understood yet. Training can accelerate your staff, impress your clients, and increase your profit.
Video-based online training, both free and fee-based, is extremely popular, readily available, and widely accessible. At its core, online video training is designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible, but your company's needs and knowledge gaps are specific. Online trainers doesn't let your users ask questions. They aren't able to "explain it a different way" based on confused facial expression! They don't know you, how much you already know, what you need, or even how you learn best. Online, canned training may be free, and can be extremely valuable (once you filter through all of the irrelevant, distracting videos) but sometimes it's also worth what you pay for it. ;-)
onebutton cad solutions takes the time to train you. Specifically. Personally. We can tailor training so your staff can take fuller advantage your software investment.
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"(The class) was very thorough and the atmosphere
of the class encouraged asking questions.
Probably one of the better CAD classes I've taken."
Store Planning Designer, L Brands
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"Chris was a great instructor and a wonderful source of information.
As we need these types of classes in the future he certainly would be
my instructor of choice. His ability to interact with a group and convey
his thoughts was both enlightening and refreshing."
Columbia Gas of Ohio
Standards
You can't live with them, but you'd hate to live without them. We get it.
Our motto is "the foundation for automation is standardization". While standards can seem like a constraint, they provide the platform to liberate your designers from tedious, technical things that hinder productivity, increase overhead, and impact morale. Your staff are just trying to do their job efficiently. They don't need to be sidelined and frustrated by things like project setup, block library maintenance, streamlined plotting, prototype drawing setup, etc. Let us help you liberate them and leverage the technology, both of which you've invested in.
Support
Change may be inevitable but doesn't have to be painful.
AutoCAD is a unique product. When compared to other 'office products', it can be challenging for your IT department to support. Its support needs are also unique and unfortunately most IT staff have not had sufficient experience with AutoCAD to know how to best support its users. Dealing with AutoCAD's idiosyncrasies, like paper space, annotative scaling, or dynamic blocks, etc. can be intimidating, even to regular users. Users often resort to the co-worked nearby or scouring the internet for fixes that might work. Or worse, might make things worse!
onebutton cad solutions can work alongside your IT team to provide the best support for your users in you environment.
Upgrades
Change may be inevitable but doesn't have to be painful.
With all their promise and potential, upgrades can be unfortunately disruptive. Software (and hardware) upgrades need to be fully functional as quickly as possible with minimal down time. Whether it's migrating (or updating) custom programs, apply configuration and plot settings, dealing with file format changes, we can help.
Our goal is to make updates as "user transparent" as possible.
Drafting
We know it so well because we use it so often!
Our expertise goes beyond just a technical understanding of how AutoCAD works - we also know how to work it! Using AutoCAD to produce drawings is how we keep our skills honed. It also helps us better understand what our customers use AutoCAD for and, if applicable, help them explore opportunities to improve their documents and their process. Get more info...