It has been a long standing practice in the engineering profession to assign a design project to a team that consists of at least the following three professionals, 1) a junior engineer who typically does the initial design based on his/her professional training as well as the selected standards and design criteria; 2) a drafter who inputs all design elements that are determined by the junior engineer into a drawing using a CAD software tool, such as AutoCAD or MicroStation; and 3) a senior engineer who supervises and checks the work by others on the team and stamps the design plans once all work is completed, after multiple revisions and iterations that require the participation of all team members. Inspired by our first-hand observations and experience with the many challenges associated with this practice, we developed the One-Click Designer (OCD) with the objectives of simplifying and streamlining the design process and making it more efficient and less demanding in manpower. We are proud to present OCD as a smart and easy to use yet reliable tool that integrates the knowledge of the junior engineer with the skills of the drafter and the experience of the senior engineer. The powerful features built in the OCD have made it possible for a single professional to take over all the engineering and drafting tasks that used to be performed by a team of professionals with a significantly enhanced level of quality and efficiency.

OCD was exclusively developed for civil engineering design purposes based on local standards and specifications. OCD Software offers users the flexibility to either use an existing CAD files or simply use the established templates to effectively perform engineering design tasks. All pertinent information of individual design components is saved in the database and can be retrieved efficiently whenever the object is selected by a user. Such information includes the general attributes of a design component, selected design criteria and parameters, as well as pertinent references and resources, including related websites, engineer’s experience and comments etc. The properties of an object in AutoCAD and/or MicroStation, such as layer in AutoCAD, level in MicroStation, line weight, line type, text style, dimension style, etc. are also included in the database. With the help of OCD, users no longer have to remember or set CAD properties of individual design components but just simply select and place the predefined components at the right place in a CAD file. Additionally, OCD Software has the ability to check and report whether the subject design files are in compliance with the selected state, federal or local standards.