Real CAD teams use Hurricane to turn days of repetitive AutoCAD work into automated batch runs. Here are a couple of them. Hurricane is trusted since 2003 by 20,000+ professionals, including teams at NASA, GE, AECOM and Schneider Electric.
Case study
Re-bordering 8,000 drawings
The challenge
A project required the drawing border on 8,000 AutoCAD drawings to be removed and replaced with an updated border. Done by hand - open, delete, insert, save, repeat - that is weeks of error-prone work tying up the drafting team.
The solution
Working with Hurricane support, a script was written to automate the border swap, and Hurricane ran it across all 8,000 files in batch - opening, processing, and saving each one unattended.
The result
All 8,000 drawings were processed successfully, turning what would have been weeks of manual work into an automated run.
"A project required the drawing borders to be removed and replaced with an updated border on 8,000 drawings. A script was written with help from Hurricane support to automate the process and all the drawings were processed successfully."
- Simon R. Halmshaw
Case study
Seven years of saved time at Linde
The challenge
Tedious, repetitive AutoCAD tasks - plotting, PDF creation, title-block updates - done one drawing at a time across large project sets, day after day.
The solution
Linde adopted Hurricane to batch these jobs: queue the drawings, run the task across the whole set, and move on. Over 7+ years it became a standard part of the workflow.
The result
Years of saved time and money on tasks that used to be done manually - and a tool the team rates among the best AutoCAD utilities they have used.
"We have been using Hurricane for AutoCAD for over 7 years. I can't measure the amount of time and money that has been saved by batch processing tedious tasks such as plotting, PDF creation, title block updates. Hurricane is one of the finest AutoCAD utilities I have ever used."
- Jack Killingworth, Linde
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