Design and Documentation WorkflowPurpose
1.2 Eliminates manual digital tracing, reducing errors and automating review cycles for multidisciplinary teams.
1.3 Ensures sketches are automatically stored, version-controlled, and routed for automated team feedback, centralising all collaborative input.
1.4 Expedites the delivery of project milestones by automating the digitalisation of design concepts and integrating with project management pipelines.
Trigger Conditions
2.2 Direct scan or image capture from mobile device apps triggers automating ingestion.
2.3 Scheduled batch automation for converting multiple incoming sketches on a daily/weekly basis.
2.4 Email attachments with specific subject lines or tags (e.g., #convert) automate the conversion routine.
Platform Variants
3.1 Adobe Document Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automated PDF conversion using the "Create PDF" API; triggers when new file is detected.
3.2 AutoCAD Web App
• Feature/Setting: Automate DWG import via the Cloud Storage Connect API; configure automation to monitor cloud uploads.
3.3 Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Flow automates OneDrive/SharePoint uploads, uses Image to Text/Export to PDF action.
3.4 Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automate workflow from Google Drive new files, routing images to image-to-PDF conversion bots.
3.5 Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: File Request triggers automation to convert uploads to desired digital format via Dropbox API.
3.6 Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Triggers when new item is in a folder; use Google Apps Script for image-to-PDF automation.
3.7 Box
• Feature/Setting: Monitor folders; invoke automated document conversion APIs upon new image upload.
3.8 DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Automatedly attach converted sketch PDFs to envelopes for automated approval flows.
3.9 Bluebeam Revu
• Feature/Setting: Bluebeam Studio Projects triggers automated batch import and conversion of uploaded sketches.
3.10 Miro
• Feature/Setting: Automate sketch import to boards via REST API, triggering notifications for review workflow.
3.11 Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Flow bot posts automated notifications of new digital sketches in project channels.
3.12 Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automate image-to-PDF processing with Slack’s Workflow Builder and file upload triggers.
3.13 Trello
• Feature/Setting: Attach digital sketch conversions to cards via power-up automation rules.
3.14 Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automate task creation on new digital format upload using Asana’s API and webhook triggers.
3.15 Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: File column integration; automate sketch uploads to workflow tasks via Integromat connectors.
3.16 Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automate sketch image blocks converted to PDFs/SVGs and linked in documentation pages.
3.17 Scanbot SDK
• Feature/Setting: Automator enables mobile scanning, triggered to auto-convert and sync sketches digitally.
3.18 AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automated script for image-to-digital format processing triggered by S3 uploads.
3.19 Google Vision API
• Feature/Setting: Automate enhancement and preprocessing of sketches pre-conversion; configure via batchProcessFiles.
3.20 Tesseract OCR
• Feature/Setting: Automate extracting handwritten text before digital rendering; integrate with document pipeline.
Benefits
4.2 Enables automators to instantly route digitised sketches for multidisciplinary review, compressing design cycles.
4.3 Supports automating secure archiving and audit trails of all converted drawings for compliance and quality assurance.
4.4 Strengthens collaboration by automating real-time team notification and feedback loops.
4.5 Enhances data integrity, minimising rework through automatable, error-mitigating processes.