CAB-i-NET suite of software has been chosen by MIR Steel to manage all their site drawings and associated documentation. All data will be indexed and scanned into CAB-i-NET Explorer by tsaADVET and then made available through the
CAB-i-NET Browser for works-wide personnel. This allows users to have instant access to view and print the latest drawings and documents to support the operation of the business. Further expansion to control general business documentation is expected in the future.
CAB-i-NET is already widely used throughout the Steel Industry with Tata Steel, Celsa, Orb Electrical Steel, Emirates Steel Industry all being valued customers of tsaADVET.
tsaADVET are working closely with Tata Steel to create an Autodesk Inventor add-in to allow auto naming of drawing sheets, creation and import including population and extraction of title block information. Therefore
allowing CAB-i-NET to manage the approval, issue, and revision of the drawings produced from Inventor. Inventor is starting to be widely used for Mechanical design in many CAB-i-NET customers and this added functionality will be available within the core CAB-i-NET system for customers to use if required.
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 Magnox Ltd in association with the Welsh Assembly Government will host an event for existing and potential suppliers to the Magnox Fleet
across the UK. The fifth in a series of supplier events hosted by Magnox since early May 2009, this event will be held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, North Wales and tsaADVET have been invited to attend and exhibit.
The day will commence with registration at 9.30am with the event itself starting promptly at 10am. The morning session will focus on Programmisation and Projects as well as the re-organisation of the Magnox Ltd business and what this means for the supply chain. In the afternoon they will focus on how they can work together in partnership to deliver benefits to the local economies in which Magnox works.
tsaADVET is pleased to announce the forth coming release of the CAB-i-NET Explorer software.
The development teams have been extremely busy over the last few months working with both existing customers and prospects to deliver enhanced changes to the software. These include:-
- Ability to auto number projects and files when a folder structure is copied therefore streamlining even further new project creation.
- Management of CAD workspaces within the CAB-i-NET environment which can also be created automatically by combining with the above new project creation functionality.
- File naming has been enhanced to allow Keywords to also contribute to the numbering of documents. This allows standards including BS1192, BIPS (Danish standard covering construction, information technology, productivity, collaboration) to be easily configured within CAB-i-NET with no customisation.
- Ability to create Local Working Copy of a file and can be used with any application including Autodesk REVIT.
- External databases can be linked to via an SQL query or view so data from other systems i.e. Financial system can be extracted and used in keywords within CAB-i-NET.
- Enhanced reference file capability allowing users to decide various options for updating and attaching references that have changed within the system.
- Intelligent Data Link allows the automatic extraction of pages, sheets, layouts and models from files held within CAB-i-NET.
- Support for Office 2010.
There are also many other changes to modules within the CAB-i-NET Suite. All customers on maintenance will be able to update to these new versions of the software when they are released.
Tags: auto number projects, Autodesk REVIT, BIPS, BS1192, CAB-i-NET, CAB-i-NET Explorer., CAD, Intelligent Data Link, Keywords, Local Working Copy, Office 2010, project creation funtionality, SQL
Posted in Latest CAB-i-NET version | Andrew Whatling March 28, 2011
tsaADVET were asked by the Danish Bentley Data Management SIG to present the CAB-i-NET Suite of products. 
The meeting took place at COWI offices just outside Copenhagen and was attended by members of the group who currently use various systems including Bentley ProjectWise with some using no systems. A two hour presentation with the majority of the time being live demonstrations of CAB-i-NET being used to manage the creation and work flowing documents and drawings around a distributed organisation. Areas also included how CAB-i-NET can be effectively used to process drawings and documents being received from contractors including later versions during the life of the project.
Note: COWI A/S is an international consulting group, specialising in engineering, environmental science and economics, based in Lyngby, Denmark.
tsaADVET have been using the advantage of being an Autodesk Developer to extend the capabilities of CAB-i-NET so Building Information Models (BIM) designed in Autodesk Revit can be managed. 
Using CAB-i-NET’s existing configurable direct store capabilities, Revit models can be created and shared collaboratively. CAB-i-NET’s highly configurable workflows can also be applied, therefore allowing customers to apply their required processes for access and revision etc.
Customers have been asking for this capability so it is now available in the core CAB-i-NET application. This therefore means no additional expenditure is required and can be simply enabled through configuration.
-Enables redlining, commenting and mark up of the published files, enhancing the review and approval functionality currently available in the Workflow wizard.
-Ability to reference one document to another or indeed many to many from within CAB-i-NET Explorer, adding to the existing drawing reference management functionality.
-The addition of “Imported Filename” as a Document Property, enabling a document to be located by its “original” filename as well as its unique filename and reference.
-Support for MicroStation v8i SELECTseries 2.
-All issues raised in regard to CE v2.14.3 have also been resolved.
-As always the latest version of CAB-i-NET Administrator will also be released on the same date.
tsaADVET have partnered up with Autodesk and become a member of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN). This investment helps to highlight 
tsaADVET’s commitment and drive to ensure that the CAB-i-NET suite of products is forever moving forward. The main short term purpose of becoming an ADN member is to further develop CAB-i-NET Explorer’s integration with Autodesk’s range of products, particularly focusing on Architecture, Inventor and Revit.
tsaADVET Ltd will be holding a Tata Steel CAB-i-NET User Group on the 22nd or 24th Feb 2011 @ Ashorne Hill. http://www.ashornehill.co.uk/pages/index.php
Time: 10.30am – 3pm allowing people to travel to/from most sites in the day.
We will present an update on CAB-i-NET Software Suite, CAB-i-NET SAP Interface, suggestions for software changes and Bob Emmett, Manager, Engineering Drawing & Design Services, will present CAB-i-NET in use at Port Talbot, specifically focused on Project and Job files. A more detailed agenda will be issued nearer the time.
If you or any of your colleagues wish to attend please feel free to contact us.
CAB-i-NET Watched Folder is a new module currently in development, its purpose is to provide an automated way in which to import documents into CAB-i-NET Explorer.
Activated by dropping a XML “recipe” file into a watched folder, the system processes the “jobs” and automatically imports the listed files into CAB-i-NET Explorer along with all the relevant document properties and metadata. Although this module could be utilized to import historic or archived data as a one-off job. The main purpose of this module is to allow customers to automate the transfer of documents from other internal systems directly into CAB-i-NET Explorer, without the need for any manual intervention. Therefore, ensuring all documentation is managed and accessible companywide from one single application (i.e. CAB-i-NET), regardless of which system generated it!
