AutoRef streamlines repetitive drafting and documentation tasks, giving your team more time to focus on engineering and project delivery.
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One place
The register in a spreadsheet, the revisions in a drafter's head, the checkprints in a folder, the transmittals in someone's sent items, the RFIs in a mailbox. AutoRef Manager brings them into one record of the project.
A typical AutoRef workflow
Read each column top to bottom. Hover a column and the steps AutoRef takes over drop out of it one by one, counting your workload down.
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What it runs on
Nothing to migrate. AutoRef works in the drawing environment and the project folders your team already has, and leaves your drawings and your documentation looking exactly as they do today.
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.
Most teams keep a register in a spreadsheet next to the drawings, and the two only agree when somebody sits down and checks them. Manager keeps the register and looks at your folders for you, so a missing file or an out-of-date revision shows up straight away instead of being found by a client.
One central place to manage the whole project, working directly with the folder structure you already have — not a copy of it, and not a spreadsheet somebody has to keep up to date.
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.
What you see on a row
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.
Applied to a selection
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.
Four steps, one check
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.
Two records, never one
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.
What the record keeps
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.
Your folders, as they are
The hosted service
The register and its history are hosted in Australia. Your drawings and documents stay where they are today — on your own project folders — and Manager records their logical location rather than copying them.
Access is granted per project, per person. Each company's records are isolated, permissions are re-checked rather than cached indefinitely, and the application tells a user plainly when something is withheld rather than failing quietly.
Getting started
We take on one project at a time, map your folders with you, and run it alongside your current register until you are satisfied it is correct. Tell us the project and how many people keep the register today.
Packages
Each package takes over one repetitive part of documentation. Most run inside AutoCAD; Manager runs alongside it. Run one, or run the suite.
See pricingPricing
Annual subscriptions, priced in AUD excluding GST. AutoCAD tool licences are allocated to licensed workstations. AutoRef Manager is priced per company and banded by seats. Every plan includes a fixed allocation of support hours.
Trial plan
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AutoRef Release
Includes
Release + Link
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Manager is licensed to the business rather than to a person, and banded by the number of people who need to work in the register. Everyone else on the project reads the drawings as they do today.
Band pricing is being finalised. Pilot projects are being taken on now, and pilot terms are agreed per project.
Ask about a pilotWorkstation licences
Link and Release licences are allocated to workstations through AutoRef Hub. Floating or network licences are not offered. Contact us about the number of workstations your team needs.
AutoRef IO
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.
Base subscription, including one user
Each additional user
Annual total
| 1 user | $3,000 |
| 3 users | $3,500 |
| 5 users | $4,000 |
| 10 users | $5,250 |
No bundle discount applies to IO. Release and Link licences are priced separately.
Position 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
Led by people
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.
Examples
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.
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AutoRef is a suite of AutoCAD tools built to reduce repetitive drawing work, improve consistency and help engineering teams maintain accurate documentation. Our current products include AutoRef Manager, AutoRef Release and AutoRef Link, with AutoRef IO available for fully tailored automation solutions.
AutoRef Manager is document control for an engineering project: the document register, the transmittal record and the checkprint review history in one application. It resolves every register row against the files on your project folders, so a missing file, a stale revision or an unissued document is visible on the row rather than found later.
No. Manager is a Windows desktop application that runs alongside AutoCAD rather than inside it, because document control is not drafting work. Release and Link remain AutoCAD tools.
No. Manager maps the project folders you already use and records where a file sits, rather than copying it into a library. You mark which folders hold deliverables, and those are the ones a transmittal scans.
The register and its history are hosted in Australia. Your drawings and documents stay on your own project folders. Access is granted per project and per person, and each company’s records are isolated from every other company’s.
Manager is being rolled out on pilot projects, one at a time. We map your folders with you and run it alongside your current register until you are satisfied it agrees. Pilot terms are agreed per project — talk to us about which project would suit.
AutoRef Release helps teams manage and issue drawing sets more efficiently. It can batch-update title block details, increment or decrement revisions, and apply consistent changes across multiple documents, reducing manual effort and the risk of drawing errors.
AutoRef Link is designed specifically for electrical schematics. It manages relays, contacts and cross-referencing, with live updates as schematic changes are made. It supports both grid-type and line-type referencing, includes a preset block library, and allows users to develop their own blocks where required.
AutoRef IO is our fully customised automation solution. It is developed around your organisation's drawings, standards and workflows, allowing automated drawings to retain your established look and feel. Each implementation is scoped individually, based on your existing documentation and drawing standards. IO is priced as a base annual subscription of $3,000 including one user, with additional users at $250 per user per year.
Yes. AutoRef is designed to work with AutoCAD, so a compatible AutoCAD installation and licence are required. AutoRef works within your established drawing environment, helping you retain your existing workflow while adding automation and control.
AutoRef is subscription-based. This allows us to maintain a dedicated support team, continue updating the software, and ensure customers are using supported versions within the engineering community. One-off purchases are no longer available. Release and Link are licensed per workstation through AutoRef Hub. Floating or network licences are not offered. AutoRef IO is a base annual subscription that includes one user, with additional users charged per user per year.
Each subscription includes a fixed allocation of support hours. Additional assistance is available at an hourly support rate. Custom packages can also include 24/7 support, unlimited assistance, training sessions and onsite onboarding, depending on your organisation's requirements.
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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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Our solutions are designed to eliminate repetitive drafting, streamline engineering workflows and deliver measurable time and cost savings across every project.
