Real CAD teams use Hurricane to turn days of repetitive AutoCAD work into automated batch runs. Here are a couple of them. Hurricane has been trusted by CAD professionals since 2003.
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 Killingsworth, Linde
Real-life scenarios: Hurricane in action
400 drawings due for submittal
Insert signature block, batch plot, bind xrefs, and export DXF for consultants - all in one session. What used to take days is done in hours.
Assign different routines to different files in one session: plot some, purge others, update title blocks. Saves half a week or more on large projects.
1500+ drawings, date in title block
Change a date in the title block across 1500 drawings. Hurricane's Title-Block Update Wizard does it in minutes of setup plus machine processing - vs 50+ hours manually.
200 drawings for consultants
Need one hard copy and one bound soft copy? Run batch plot and bind routines. Start the run and let Hurricane handle it while you focus on other work.
400+ drawings, format conversion
Convert hundreds of older DWG files to a newer version. Hurricane processes the batch overnight so the team is ready the next morning.
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