AutoCAD and document management automation · Australian built

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AutoRef is a suite of automation packages for engineering teams that document their projects in AutoCAD. Each one takes a repetitive job off your team, and fits around the drawings, folders and standards you already have.

What it runs on

Nothing to change. AutoRef works on your drawings, in your folders, so your drawings and documents look exactly as they do today. Where AutoRef produces something new, you set the colours and supply your logo, so it still matches your company's branding.

Environment Inside AutoCAD, and beside it
Your drawings Your blocks and title blocks
Your documents Your project folders and register
Your standards Naming, revisions, layers, statuses
Licensing Annual, support hours included
Packages Seven packages, four available now Manager, Link, Release and IO are licensed today. Others are in development. See the packages Examples Watch it run on a real set Short recordings of a single task, start to finish, at real speed. Open the examples
AutoRef Manager

Document control that doesn’t require restructuring your department

One place to manage your documents, your reviews and everything you issue — working with the folders and the process your team already has. No migration, no new filing system, and nobody has to change how they draft.

Runs on Windows desktop
Your files Your own project folders
Hosting Australian data residency
Access Roles and permissions
Onboarding Pilot projects

One record

Five records of every project, kept in five different places

Running a project means keeping a lot of moving parts in step. AutoRef's industry case study found the same problem again and again: teams losing hours reconciling information between different systems. Checking drawings against the document register. Copying RFI responses into the RFI register. Making sure each transmittal records the right documents. AutoRef Manager brings all of it into one shared place, so everyone works from the same information.

PROJECT · MI-2417 TARRAWONGA UPGRADE PROJECT · MI-2390 SWITCHROOM PACKAGE its own register + every other project your team runs Document management The register and its status Revisions and updates Revisions across a whole set Checkprints Review · recommend · approve Issuing documents Transmittals and receipts RFIs Raised · responded · recorded ONE RECORD AutoRef Manager one register · one history across every project

What it does

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One place to see every document on the project — what it is, what revision it is on, and whether the file is actually where it should be. Manager reads your existing folders, so nobody is keeping a spreadsheet in step with the drawings by hand.

  • See type, status, area and revision at a glance
  • Save the views your team looks at every day
  • Update many documents at once instead of one by one
  • Export the register for a client or a progress report

What you see on a row

MI-2417-EL-DWG-002Cv5Submitted
MI-2417-EL-DWG-004Dv5Not Started
MI-2417-CV-DOC-001noneno file

Take a whole selection of documents to the next revision in one go. Manager shows you exactly what will change before anything changes, and leaves alone anything that is still under review.

  • Take many documents up or down a revision at once
  • See the before and after before you commit to it
  • Anything under review is protected and left alone
  • The file names affected are listed with the change

Applied to a selection

B C 12 documents · 1 refused

MI-2417-EL-DWG-002 is still under review, so it is left alone.

Select your files, let Manager match them automatically, and issue. It looks through your folders for the latest, most up-to-date files and collates them for you, taking the admin work out of a transmittal.

  • Finds the current file for each document for you
  • Checks the package is complete before anything goes out
  • Numbers every issue once, with no duplicates
  • Produces the receipt and the file list with the package

Four steps, one check

1 Details 2 Files 3 Checks 4 Issue

7 things to fix · issuing stays locked until they are.

A review loop you can actually follow: someone submits the work, a reviewer gives their recommendation, an approver makes the decision, and it goes round again if the drawing changed.

  • ISO 9001 compliant process
  • Ensures a proper and traceable review process takes place
  • Keeps a clear record of accountability
  • Scales to be as detailed, or as light, as you need it to be

Two records, never one

ReviewerR. NguyenRecommend
ApproverPending

A recommendation is not an approval, and never looks like one.

Everything is traced: when a document was issued and to whom, how an RFI was answered, how a review ran and who signed it off. That gives you accountability when a client asks a hard question, and a clear picture of how a project actually ran that you can carry into the next one.

  • Each issue keeps the exact file it was sent with
  • Corrections are added as new records, never as edits
  • The full issue history sits against every document
  • Every export is stamped with the date it came from

What the record keeps

TR-00422026-08-11Issued
rev Cv5MI-2417-EL-DWG-002-C.pdf

The drawing has changed twice since. The record still shows what was sent.

Nothing to move and nothing to restructure. Manager works with the project folders your team already uses, so working folders remain on your network, same as they’ve always been.

  • Keeps working with the folder structure you have today
  • You keep control of your documents
  • Validates the documents in your folders against what you intend to submit
  • No expensive cloud storage, and no documents moved out of where they live

Your folders, as they are

/DRAWINGSscanned
/SCHEDULESscanned
/CHECKPRINTnot scanned

Manager on the examples page

The examples page opens filtered to Manager, so the Manager recordings sit on their own. They are still being made; ask for a walkthrough on your own project in the meantime.

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Packages

Pick the tools your team drafts with

Each package takes over one repetitive part of documentation. Most run inside AutoCAD; Manager runs alongside it. Open any package below to see what it does, and watch it run on the examples page.

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Available now

04 packages · licensed annually
Manager Available

AutoRef Manager

The document register, transmittal record and checkprint history for a project. It runs outside AutoCAD, against the project folders you already use.

  • Document register with revision control
  • Transmittals, preflight and issue records
  • Checkprint review and approval workflow
  • Full audit trail of what was issued, and when
See what it does
Link Available

AutoRef Link

Electrical schematic referencing that keeps itself correct. Relays, contacts and cross-references update live as the schematic changes.

  • Real-time relay, line number and contactor updating
  • Live referencing management
  • Grid-type and line-type referencing
  • Preset block library, plus your own blocks
See what it does
Release Available

AutoRef Release

Release entire drawing sets in minutes. Title blocks, revisions, plotting and packaging across hundreds of drawings.

  • Batch revision management
  • Title block automation
  • PDF and eTransmit packages
  • Consistent changes across a whole set
See what it does
IO Available · custom

AutoRef IO

Equipment schedules in, finished drawings out. Built around your own drawings, standards and workflows.

  • Automatic cable and route generation
  • Cable and junction box schedules
  • AutoCAD I/O drawing generation
  • Scoped individually to your standards
See what it does

In development

03 packages · not released
TakeOff Experimental

AutoRef TakeOff

Switchboard takeoffs without walking the drawing set. TakeOff reads the schematics and returns the parts you need to order.

  • Reads parts and ratings straight from schematics
  • Builds the switchboard parts list, board by board
  • Calculates quantities, cable sizes and spare ways
  • Exports to a schedule or supplier BOM

Indicative scope. In development, not released.

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TBA-01 To be announced

To be announced

A fourth package is in scoping with a launch partner. Details once there is something worth publishing.

TBA-02 To be announced

To be announced

Requests from existing customers shape what gets built next. Tell us the task that costs your team the most hours.

Pricing

Choose the plan to suit you

Annual subscriptions, priced in AUD. AutoRef is not GST registered; no GST is charged. AutoCAD tool licences are allocated to licensed workstations. AutoRef Manager includes one named seat, with a charge for each additional seat. Every plan includes a fixed allocation of support hours.

THE ESSENTIALS

Everyday tools

Start with a trial, choose a focused tool, or bring Release and Link together.

Trial plan

$0 AUD / year

Includes

AutoRef Release ↗

$800 AUD / workstation / year

Includes

AutoRef Link ↗

$800 AUD / workstation / year

Includes

Release + Link

Save 6.25%
$1,500 AUD / workstation / year

Includes

THE FLAGSHIP RANGE

Built for the bigger picture.

Manage your projects with Manager. Configure your documentation workflow with IO.

PROJECT & DOCUMENT CONTROL

AutoRef Manager

For teams bringing projects and document control together

Manager brings project and document control into one workspace for your team. The annual company subscription includes one named seat, with additional seats available as your team grows.

$2,500 AUD / year

Base subscription, including one named seat

+ $250 AUD / named seat / year

Each additional named seat

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Annual total

1 named seat$2,500
3 named seats$3,000
5 named seats$3,500
10 named seats$4,750

Annual total: A$2,500 plus A$250 for each named seat after the first.

CUSTOM DOCUMENTATION & DRAWING WORKFLOWS

AutoRef IO

For those seeking comprehensive custom solutions

IO is configured around your existing documentation and drawing standards. The subscription covers that configuration and the business it runs in, so pricing sits outside the Release and Link licence model.

$2,000 AUD / year

Base subscription, including one workstation

+ $250 AUD / workstation / year

Each additional workstation

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Annual total

1 workstation$2,000
3 workstations$2,500
5 workstations$3,000
10 workstations$4,250

No bundle discount applies to IO. Release and Link licences are priced separately.

YOUR SELECTION

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Choose products above, then set the total number of seats for each plan. Your annual licence term starts when your company activates the paid purchase. No automatic renewal is enabled.

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Invoice and payment

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Position statement

AutoRef AI Statement

AI is rapidly changing the way businesses work, and we believe it is important to adapt with purpose. At AutoRef, we are continually looking for ways to innovate and make the most of advancements in artificial intelligence.

Reduced around the work

  • Document creation
  • Formatting
  • Referencing
  • Data management
  • Routine administration

Led by people

  • Knowledge
  • Experience
  • Judgement
  • Engineering application
  • Sound decisions

The focus of the current AI landscape is not simply replacing people—it is optimising workflows. For us, that means keeping complex work requiring knowledge, experience, judgement and engineering application clearly defined and led by people, while reducing the tedious work around it.

Document creation, formatting, referencing, data management and routine administration can consume a significant amount of time without benefiting from the expertise of the person completing it. By improving these processes, professionals can spend more time on the work that matters: applying their knowledge and experience to complex projects, making sound decisions, and delivering real value.

The role of people is increasingly to coordinate, guide and apply expertise across large, complex projects. Behind the scenes, we should strive to optimise the processes that can be automated, assisted or made more efficient—freeing time to be spent where it has the greatest impact.

AutoRef has always, and will always, advocate for people being at the core of a business. We also believe people should be supported to reach their full potential. AI should help remove unnecessary routine work, not diminish the value of human expertise.

Our commitment

Our commitment is to use AI responsibly and practically: to improve productivity, support better workflows, and help our clients focus on the work they are truly paid to do.

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Examples

Watch it work on real drawings

Short recordings taken from live projects. Each one runs a single task end to end, at real speed. Ask for a walkthrough on your own drawing set.

Recordings

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Tutorials

Learn AutoRef one task at a time

Short videos, arranged by product and by the job you are doing. We are recording them as each product settles, and the whole plan is listed here so you can see what is coming — and tell us which one you need first.

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Recording starts as each product settles, so this list will change. If one of these would help your team now, ask for it and we will record that one first, or run it live on your own project.

MY AUTOREF

Your account, in one place

See your company's licences and downloads. Company administrators can also manage purchases, pay invoices and start paid licence terms when the team is ready.

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Choose which company you are working with. Nothing is shown until you do, so no two companies are ever mixed on one page.

Register a new company

Create a company you manage. You will be its first administrator. Registration is free; Hub downloads become available after a purchase is activated or AutoRef grants your company a trial.

Joining an existing company? Ask its administrator to invite your account email, then open and accept that invitation. Creating another company will not give access to theirs.

Set up your Manager access

Assign yourself a Manager administrator place from your company's purchased member allowance. Your company will then be available in Manager within five minutes. Invite other members through Hub.

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Your company administrator can view invoices and payment history. Your company's licences and downloads are shown above.

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Invitation

Welcome to AutoRef

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Contact

Book a demonstration

A demonstration runs about 30 minutes, on your drawings where you can share them. Tell us what your team drafts and we will show the parts AutoRef takes over.

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