Architects and engineers develop architectural drawings with the intent to develop design ideas into a coherent proposal, to communicate the design to clients, builders, tradesmen, and specifically for approvals from governing agencies. In the case of…

I just came back from the INCOSE IS2019 conference and I’m eager to report that the view I expressed in my recent blog on systems engineering was also addressed by David Long of Vitech (congratulations on becoming the latest INCOSE fellow!) in his MBSE…

There is a lot of discussion about Engineering Standards lately. The big question is why? Why would the industry want standardization in software? The obvious answer is interoperability between internal systems and the capacity to synchronize easily with…

Innovator uses a number of terms that are either completely unique or just defined a little differently than in other systems. I'll attempt to define a few of them here, with more to come later: ItemType: An ItemType is a construct that defines the…

Worked for an architectural firm “back in the day.” Took the new house plans for review to the local governing agency, the county government. Plans were soundly rejected. It looked they had slaughtered a small animal on the blueprints. Heavily marked…

We frequently get asked how to move a customization from one instance of innovator to the other. In this post we’ll go over how to add items to a package, how to export that package, and how to import it into a different instance of Innovator. Adding…