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A superseded drawing on site is the most expensive document you own

Somebody builds from Rev B while the office has moved to Rev C, and the cost of that discovery is measured in demolition. Documents keeps one register per job, marks what is current, and puts it on the phone of the person standing in the building.

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Available on the Estimator plan and above

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The SmarteBuild document register showing drawings and their current revisions.
Every drawing on the job, in one place.
Versions, not copies

The document is the drawing. The revision is a version of it.

A-101 Floor Plan is the document. Rev A, Rev B andRev C are versions of it. Upload a new revision as a version of the existing document, not as a new document, and the old one is superseded — still there, still findable, no longer current.

It sounds like filing pedantry. It is what makes everything downstream work.

What depends on it

  • Take-Off carry-over. Open a drawing you have measured when a newer revision exists and Take-Off offers to bring every measurement forward, flagged for review. That only works because it knows the two files are the same drawing.
  • The mobile app shows what is current, so site staff cannot open a superseded set by accident.
  • Tender packages go out with the right revision attached.

Tidy documents are what make the app trustworthy on site

A job where drawings get emailed around instead of uploaded gives site staff nothing to look at — and the moment they stop trusting the register, they go back to a printed set that is two revisions old.

A closer look at documents

One register, versioned properly, reaching the places that need it.

The document register for a job, showing drawings grouped into folders with their current revision.
The register, by folder
The version history of a drawing, showing superseded revisions.
Superseded, not deleted
Documents automatically attached to an outgoing tender package.
Attached without being remembered

What it connects to

Nothing in SmarteBuild is an island — that is the point of it. Documents & Drawings reads from and feeds into these.

  • Take-Off

    Measure straight off the PDF and send quantities to the BOQ

  • Mobile & On Site

    The job in your pocket, including where reception is poor

  • Tenders

    Build a trade package, invite subbies, compare what comes back

  • Projects & Costings

    Contract stages, markups and the numbers behind every job

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The help centre documents Documents & Drawings step by step, with worked examples — written for people using it, not for a brochure.

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