Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher overview

IBM® Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher provides bidirectional tools that integrate your computer-aided design (CAD) application with the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities environment and enhance the standard CAD functions. Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher provides a means of attaching and uploading data to the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities environment. You can also view real-time information for that data in your CAD application in the form of reporting.

You use Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher to upload and link data, apply real-time reporting, and publish graphic representations for use in the Graphics section of Maximo Real Estate and Facilities applications. Maximo Real Estate and Facilities users such as space planners can view CAD drawings such as floor plans in Graphics sections of the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities applications that they use.

In your AutoCAD or MicroStation application, you access the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher tools from the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities menu and menu items. Alternatively, in your AutoCAD application, you can type the equivalent command in the CAD software command line. You can also use the commands to build scripts.

Only one Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher instance can run at a time. To use a different instance, you must close the instance that is running, and then open another instance.

In Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher, the changes that you make on an open CAD drawing update the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities records as you edit the drawing. For example, each drawing and boundary or block that you attach updates the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities records as you perform each attach action. Inserted objects make Maximo Real Estate and Facilities record associations as you insert the objects into the drawing.

In Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher, new, modified, and deleted objects update the Graphics sections only after you publish the changes to the objects.

Any changes that are made to records in the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities environment update the CAD drawing after you synchronize the records and the drawing from Maximo Real Estate and Facilities CAD Integrator/Publisher.