Drawing Disciplines

Choose the disciplines (Architectural, Structural, Civil, and so on) Cogram uses to organize your drawings and to classify new uploads automatically.

Drawing disciplines organize your drawings by trade or scope, like Architectural, Structural, or Civil. When someone uploads a drawing, Cogram reads its title block and assigns the best-matching discipline automatically, and your team can filter the Drawings list by discipline.

Cogram comes with the 21 standard NCS Level-1 disciplines (from the U.S. National CAD Standard) already set up. These can be switched off but not deleted or renamed. You can add your own disciplines for anything your firm uses beyond the standard.

You need to be an Org Admin or Org Owner to manage the discipline list.

Adding a custom discipline

To add one:

1. Go to Organization Settings > Field > Drawing Disciplines.

2. Type the name in the input (e.g., "BIM Coordination") and click Add.

The new discipline is available right away, both in the discipline picker and to the automatic classification. Each discipline name can only be used once.

Drawing Disciplines under Organization Settings > Field

Deactivating or deleting a discipline

To retire a discipline you do not use, click the toggle on its row. It disappears from the picker and from automatic classification, but drawings that already have it keep showing it. Switch the toggle back on to bring it back.

To remove a custom discipline completely, click the trash icon on its row.

Deleting a discipline clears it from any drawings tagged with it.

Changing a drawing's discipline

Cogram assigns a discipline automatically when a drawing is uploaded. To change it:

1. Open Field > Drawings.

2. Click the drawing's Discipline cell in the list.

3. Pick the right discipline. The change saves immediately.

To update many drawings at once, use bulk edit. See Drawings.

Related

• Drawings: uploading and organizing drawings on the web, and using them on site.

• Report Types: how drawing pin images appear in exported reports.