More and more jurisdictions are going towards digital submittal of construction documents.
We have come across our first submittal in California where the Jurisdiction is asking us to submit our drawings digitally on a CD for plan check. We still need to sign the drawings, of course, but Vectorworks has no mechanism for digital signatures.
Both AutoCAD and Bentley's Microstation allow for digitally signing documents from within the application. Both of them are using a third party solution called CoSign by Arx which allows the application of a legal digital signature upon exporting to PDF. The authenticity of the signature can then be verified by anyone opening the drawing in Acrobat Reader and clicking on the signature.
Vectorworks needs to implement some solution like this if they want to keep up with the future of architectural drawing submittal.
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More and more jurisdictions are going towards digital submittal of construction documents.
We have come across our first submittal in California where the Jurisdiction is asking us to submit our drawings digitally on a CD for plan check. We still need to sign the drawings, of course, but Vectorworks has no mechanism for digital signatures.
Both AutoCAD and Bentley's Microstation allow for digitally signing documents from within the application. Both of them are using a third party solution called CoSign by Arx which allows the application of a legal digital signature upon exporting to PDF. The authenticity of the signature can then be verified by anyone opening the drawing in Acrobat Reader and clicking on the signature.
Vectorworks needs to implement some solution like this if they want to keep up with the future of architectural drawing submittal.
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