Are your 3D CAD drawings under proper management?

From product design to development and production, 2D/3D CAD drawings play a critical role across every stage of the manufacturing process, eventually leading to a company’s competitiveness.
In manufacturing environments where collaboration with external partners is a daily routine, complete lifecycle of such CAD drawings is more important than ever.

With document centralization, you can manage, share, and protect your CAD drawings—securely and efficiently simultaneously.

 

What is Document Centralization Solution?

Document centralization refers to a system that stores and manages all corporate documents, including CAD drawings, contracts, meeting records, and more, at a centralized server.
Beyond simple storage, it enables access control, version tracking, and history management to make sure that your critical CAD data is well protected and efficiently utilized.

 

Still using insecure paths for sharing CAD drawings such as email or USB?

We all have shared large CAD files in several emails or by USBs due to its large file size.
These outdated methods are not only inefficient, but they also pose serious protection risks.

 

“We often send several emails for 1 single CAD file due to the size limitation via email.”
– said by one of our customer working at an automotive parts manufacturer. This also lead to corrupted files during transfer.

 

“Drawings are updated so frequently that it’s a hassle to keep resending the latest version.”
– said by one of our customer working at a construction equipment company.

 

Cyberdigm enables you to share CAD drawings via secure URLs.

Even large-sized files can always be shared in their latest version through a single, safe URL link.

 

 

 

Key Features of Cyberdigm Document Centralization

 

✅ Internal sharing

View and edit documents stored at central server via URL.

 

✅ External sharing

Generate download links with expiration dates, download limits, and passwords to strengthen protection.

 

Can I track down who and when such CAD drawings were modified?

Even a slight change in a CAD drawing can lead to costly design errors. That’s why version control and change history tracking are essential in manufacturing process.

 

 

“The previous version was gone as the file was overwritten.”
– said by a manufacturing firm who had to recreate an entire CAD drawing after a junior engineer accidentally overwrote the original version before using Document centralization solution.

 

“It was almost impossible to find out who was accountable for the error.”
– said by a semiconductor equipment company who experienced a product defect after a CAD drawing was modified. Without proper change tracking, it took days and weeks to investigate and trace the cause.

 

Cyberdigm automatically records all changes, helping you to recover previous versions as well as track down who is accountable for the error.

 

 

 

Version & History Management Features

 

✅ Versioning Tracking

Equipped with automatic version saving which enables restoring of previous versions at any time.

 

✅ Activity tracking

provides a clear visibility of by whom what and when such changes were made via which IP address, ensuring accountability and transparent collaboration.

 

✅ Easy recovery

prevents involuntary mistakes leading to critical data loss, activating previous versions anytime to protect critical CAD information.

 

How can you prevent leakage of proprietary CAD drawings?

Technical data leaks are increasing across all industries, both caused by internal and external threats.
Internal mistakes and intentional misconduct are increasingly common causes of data loss, especially in technology-driven fields like manufacturing.

 

“The CAD drawings sent to a partnership company were leaked to a competitor.”
– said by one of a shipbuilding company employee who suffered a major competitive setback when confidential drawings sent to a supplier were passed to a rival firm.

 

“An employee copied key CAD drawings into a personal laptop before he quit the company.”
– said by a manufacturing firm who discovered that one of their employee copied sensitive drawings before he quit the company.

 

In most of these cases, the main cause is equivalent : unstructured and uncontrolled file management.

Cyberdigm helps protect your CAD drawings with robust protection features.

 

 

 

Protection Features for External Leakage Prevention

 

✅ Approval workflows for external transfers

Require an internal approval before exporting any critical CAD file.

 

✅ Secure external collaboration (VDR)

Combine Virtual Data Room functionality with DRM controls for protected collaboration using the central server.

 

✅ Granular access permissions

Assign access rights based on user, department, or title to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.

 

(*VDR = Virtual Data Room: a secure digital environment for storing and sharing corporate documents)

 

How is AI interconnected with efficient CAD drawings?

AI-powered CAD drawing analysis, BOM (Bill of Materials) extraction, and integration with PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems are gaining attention across the industry.
Many manufacturers aim to use AI to streamline design workflows and accelerate product development.

 

But here’s the reality: fragmented and scattered data makes it hard to even begin.
If your CAD drawings are spread across PCs, emails, and USBs, there is nothing AI can help with.

 

Document centralization lays the foundation for AI-ready data infrastructure.

Cyberdigm integrates document centralization with its own LLM and AI technologies to support not just keyword searches, but context-aware retrieval and intelligent data processing.

 

AI-Ready Features

• Automated document classification & metadata search: Organize files in a way AI can understand—boosting data accessibility and search accuracy.
• Unified management of structured & unstructured data: Manage CAD files, images and meeting notes, together, enabling AI for a comprehensive dataset for analysis.

CAD drawings should be treated with extra care.

They are strategic assets directly tied to your company’s competitiveness.
It’s time to move beyond practical file storage—and rethink how you should collaborate and protect your most critical engineering data moving forward.

 

Start your Cyberdigm’s document centralization today before it is too late.
Secure protection and efficient utilization of your CAD drawings—with a single platform.

 

 

 

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