Blueprints

Blueprints are engineering drawings printed on paper. Most of us think of architectural blueprints – houses and buildings – but engineering drawings are created during the design stage of virtually everything we see in modern life, from our cars to our computers. That’s a lot of blueprints, and in paper form they take up lots of increasingly expensive space. In the past, some firms have solved this problem by converting paper blueprints to aperture cards – microfilm on punched cards. Today, most companies convert blueprints directly into digital form using a large format scanner. These scanners can accept paper documents 52 inches or more in width and of varying lengths, and turn them into digital images – just like paper scanners. They can then be stored and indexed in Optix like any other document.

Optix supports several large format scanners and we’ve installed them as part of systems for small engineering firms and oil companies.