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Database diagnostic

Twelve questions about how the shop actually uses Autodesk® Fabrication — CADmep, CAMduct, or ESTmep. Scores stay in this browser. No account, no upload, no telemetry.

Pricing accuracy

  1. 01 / When did catalog pricing last get a real update — not a handful of items somebody happened to touch?
  2. 02 / Can an estimator trust a takeoff price without opening a shadow spreadsheet?
  3. 03 / Do you quote in one system and fabricate in another?

Item structure

  1. 04 / What's still sitting in the item library?
  2. 05 / Are labor tables built for this shop's machines, or still a generic template?
  3. 06 / Insulation, lining, and specialty items — in the database, or added after the fact?

Connector health

  1. 07 / Do connectors, seams, and pressure classes match what the shop can actually make?
  2. 08 / Do bad connections still show up on tickets, nest, or CAM?
  3. 09 / If you run more than one cutting path (plasma, waterjet, router, phenolic), do the extra machines have working posts?

Documentation

  1. 10 / Is there a written "how this database is built" that someone else could follow?
  2. 11 / Do the reports match what shop, shipping, and the customer actually need?
  3. 12 / Who maintains the database, and how often?

12 questions left.

Answer the twelve questions. Worse answers raise the leak score — hours and bids walking out of the database.

What this is

A self-score, not a database review.

How the shop fabs, what it quotes in, and how often anyone maintains the file. This checklist is that conversation, scored. It does not open your database and it does not replace a Database Health Audit.

Four areas that cost shops bids
  • Pricing accuracy — stale catalogs, shadow spreadsheets, dual entry
  • Item structure — duplicates, template labor, specialty added later
  • Connector health — connections the shop can't make, dead posts
  • Documentation — reports, ownership, and what lives in one person's head
Not a substitute for opening the file

This is a self-score. It is not a hands-on review of your fabrication database, not a fabrication release, and not the $2,500 Database Health Audit. Answers never leave this browser unless you choose to email them.