RMS Core
Release management for cladding and glazing fabricators
RMS reads your fabrication drawings and turns them into what production builds from: parts, bills of material and unit releases. It runs inside AutoCAD Mechanical, so drafters and engineers stay in the tool they already use.
What it does
Everything starts from your drawings. RMS never invents data and never edits a drawing unless you ask it to. Its job is to be a faithful, checkable route from what you drew to what gets built.
- Reads the RMS blocks in your drawings to find parts, their dimensions, and which assembly each one belongs to.
- Checks what it read against what is already stored, and shows you anything that looks wrong before it sends anything.
- Uploads parts, bills of material and unit releases to the RMS database.
- Produces what the shop floor needs: the All Parts Report, batch PDFs by release, and cut lists.
Three ideas worth knowing
Part
One fabrication component, identified by its job number and part number together. Its dimensions, finish and routing come from a data block on its own drawing.
Unit
An assembly. A unit is made of parts, and the labels on the unit drawing are what create the bill of material.
Release
A batch being shipped or built together. Releases come from the elevation tags, and almost every report and PDF is scoped to one.
From drawing to shop floor
The Command Center is a docking palette inside AutoCAD that shows the job you are in, the work in front of you, and everything RMS has said this session. Its six stages run top to bottom.
- ExtractRead the drawings in the current scope. Scope defaults to drawings changed since they were last read, which is what you want almost every time.
- Review and uploadSee what was found, grouped by folder and drawing, check it, and send it. Nothing is sent until you press Upload.
- Pre-release checkReconcile a release's tag drawings before you export it, so a drawing removed on purpose is confirmed by a person, drawing by drawing.
- Export releasesHand finished releases to production. A release counts as exported only when every one of its rows is.
- ReportsThe All Parts Report, with PDF, CSV and Excel exports.
- PDFsBatch plot drawings by release and routing category, one multi-page PDF per category.
What RMS catches before production does
RMS separates problems that stop an upload from problems it wants you to look at. Warnings never block the upload. They exist because the data will be wrong downstream if nobody notices.
A part filed under the wrong assembly
A label that names a parent other than the drawing's own assembly silently reparents the part and inflates another unit's bill of material. RMS flags it, and where the client has it switched on, corrects it and writes the correction back into the drawing.
Parts with nowhere to get their dimensions
A part referenced by a label with no quantity block defining it, or a quantity block copied from another drawing and never renamed, is reported with a link that opens the drawing and zooms to the block.
Orphaned parts
When a part that used to be on a drawing is no longer there, RMS stops and asks whether it was deleted or renamed, and shows where the old part is still used before you decide. It does not guess, because the two answers have opposite consequences.
Releases that still carry removed drawings
A missing drawing is never treated as a deletion while you are drafting. The pre-release check is the one controlled point where you say what was removed on purpose, and it spells out the cost per release before you reconcile.
What comes out
All Parts Report
The tabular breakdown of what a release needs, in four sections: units, sub-assemblies, shipped loose, and all parts. PDF for printing, CSV for sorting, Excel with one worksheet per section and real numbers rather than text. Lengths are decimal inches to three places.
Batch PDFs
The drawings a release needs, sorted by routing code into CNC, fabrication, formed metals, miter cuts, straight cuts, loose to field and outsourced. Each part sheet is plotted with a quantity table rebuilt for the release you selected. Your original drawing is never modified.
Cut lists
Mitered and straight cut list CSVs for the selected releases, ready for the saw.
Built around the way fabrication jobs are organised
The job folder is the structure
Tags, units and parts each live in their own folder, and RMS decides how to read a drawing from where it sits. A drawing in the wrong folder is read with the wrong rules, and RMS says so rather than guessing.
Configured per client, checked on the server
A client profile decides which commands, PDF categories and dialog options your company uses. A user role decides who may run the administrative commands. The server checks both on every request, whatever buttons the plugin draws.