CAD Documents Life Cycle

By default, the CAD Document Life Cycle has the following states: Preliminary, In Review, Released, In Change, Superseded, and Obsolete. An administrator can change the Life Cycle Map if it is necessary to meet specific business requirements.

The figure below shows the default CAD Document Life Cycle. A new CAD Document starts in the Preliminary state and can be promoted either automatically or manually. Both the simplified and CMII change management processes can automatically promote the CAD Documents. The associated Life Cycles are automatically controlled by Workflows for those CAD Documents that are included in the affected items list. CAD Documents that are not included in the list because they do not require a full change process can be promoted using either manual release or revision if certain requirements are met. By default, a CAD Document Owner can release a CAD Document. For further details on this feature, refer to section Manual Promotion and Revise.

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