SMART DCR

1.0INTRODUCTION

Every city in the world is continually evolving and developing to meet its citizen’s
needs. An authority powered by government will be controlling the development of
cities to have a harmonious as well as infrastructural and technologically superior
living for all.

The authority will lay out a set of rules to be followed for every new development
as well as regulating existing development. The method is to receive set of
engineering plans related to each proposal, study them in detail and extract the
basic information required like built up area, spacing between adjacent building,
height etc. after matching them with the rules laid out, the authority can either
approve the proposal or ask for certain modifications to be done in the plan.

For larger cities this becomes a cumbersome process owing to the large amount
of applications received and manually calculating various areas, totaling and then
coming to a conclusion

So software has been developed by us, which will study the engineering plans
provide in the CAD format, Process the plans and generate complete and detailed
set of report for further decisions by the approval authorities.

A large amount of time saving has been achieved when implemented and the
planners consider this as a boon to them. This also helps developers as the
waiting time for sanctions have been greatly reduced.

2.0PROMINENT PROCESS OF THE SOFTWARE

2.1ONLINE BUILDING PLAN APPROVAL SYSTEM PROCESS

Automation of Online Building Plan Approval System is the main part of the
SmartDCR which is used by Architects as well as Officers of Greater Noida
Development Authority, GNIDA.

1. System is designed for Architects to register and

submit the drawing and get the Reference Number of
the Application.
2. This system is designed to allow an Architect to submit the
drawing and check the status of drawing online.
3. The software will facilitate communication between Architects
via E- Mail, Public can also view the status of their File
Online.
4. The system also contains a relational database
having list of Architects’ details.
5. The Architects can also get their scrutiny report online
using their Reference Number.

2.2SMART DCR SCRUTINY PROCESS

This Process will scrutinize the submitted drawing by comparing with GNIDA Bye-
Laws and generates Reports. The uploaded drawing should be in .dwg format.
Architects can check their drawing status, whether successfully submitted or
Returned back through e- mail.
i. Precheck

ii. Scrutiny Engine

PreCheck - It will check the drawing format as per user manual and also the
integrity of polylines, lines and texts.

Scrutiny Engine - If the drawing is successfully cleared through Precheck, Scrutiny

Engine will check the drawing as per the regulation.

3.0OBJECTIVES

To bring transformation in the plan scrutiny processing system with speed,

accuracy, consistency and transparency in the entire scrutiny process. To achieve
the goal, it is proposed to automate the planning scrutiny process by customization
with Smart DCR.

4.0SCOPE OF THE SYSTEM

The Automation helps to increase the productivity and Accuracy of the Drawing Result.

1. Speed up the Scrutiny process.

2. Easier Public Interaction with Online System.
3. Reduce the Time consumption and Manual Errors of
Scrutiny Process.
4. Savings on the infrastructure required to store paper drawings.
5. Easy to retrieve data since the data is stored in digital format.
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5.0DO’S AND DONT’S

8.
9. The processing of the file and further generation of reports is
dependent on the Polylines, Lines and Text placed in the drawing
file.

5.1 DO’S

1. Floor plans, section, elevation to be kept in Scale 1:1 in meters

2. Polylines shall be drawn in the form of Light Weight Polylines (lwpolylines),
as 3D Polylines are not supported. They should be drawn as closed
polylines.
3. Polyline’s line thickness shall be zero.
4. Drawing objects shall be placed in model space only.
5. Site plan, floor plan, section, elevation to be kept inside bounding rectangle
color 61 Polyline
6. Before color-coding the drawing, all the layers to be locked except Floor
layers. Use Laylockfadectl command to reduce or increase the brightness
of original drawing.
7. After completing color-coding, check the drawing using

5.2 DONT’S

1. All drawing objects shall be in 2 Dimensional (Z-Coordinates to kept in Zero

coordinate) and it has to be placed without any elevation.

2. Blocks, Regions, Wipe-out and External references shall not be placed in

the drawing as they will not be processed.

3. The Colour coded items, i.e. polylines, lines and texts which are intended
to be processed must be in the layers starting with FLOOR. Other layers
will be ignored by the software.
 4. Mtext will not be processed by the software and whatever text placed on
Floor layers shall be Text only.

5. Plans prepared using Educational version of AUTOCAD or other software

like REVIT cannot be accepted as its use is limited.

6. Don’t use 3D Objects.

6.0 PREPARATION METHODOLOGY TO CREATE DRAWING

Preparation of computerized plans for Smart DCR has the following steps, which
are to be followed compulsory. Otherwise, Smart DCR will not process the given
drawing.

1. Proposed Floor layer: FLOOR01, FLOOR02, etc…. corresponding

to the floor count.

2. Use FLOOR-STILT or FLOOR-GROUND for common Site related details.

3. For Proposed Basement floor, layer should be FLOOR-BF1,

FLOOR–BF2 etc. corresponding to the Basement Floor Count.

4. Don’t use unnecessary spaces in layer Names.

5. All proposal drawing should be in .DWG Format

6. All objects to be processed by Smart DCR should be drawn using

Lines, Polylines and Text and placed in layers starting with Floor.

7. Layers and Colours should be followed as per the colour code table.

8. Remove the unused layers, dimension styles etc.

9. Drawing units should be in metres.

10. All details should be drawn in scale 1:1 (True Scale).

11. Avoid unnecessary objects in the drawing.

12. In the site plan, Front Setback should be in the Bottom Of the drawing.

13. Avoid unnecessary coordinates in polylines.

14. Don’t Overlap the Objects.

 15. Use WBLOCK command to reduce the file size of the AutoCAD drawing

16. Existing Floor area shall be color coded with layer name as
FLOOR- GROUND-EX, FLOOR01-EX, FLOOR02-EX Etc.
17. The lower left corner of the bounding rectangle color 61 polyline to
be kept in 0, 0, 0 coordinate.

18. For construction already started before approval and for

construction already completed before approval the layer name to be
kept as FLOOR- GROUND, FLOOR01, FLOOR02 etc..
7.0 PRECHECK SOFTWARE

Precheck is the software given for finding out all the polyline, line, and text related
problems in the drawing. When the Applicant submits the building map proposal,
this software enables the applicant to rectify the defects in the drawing and make it
suitable to run in the Scrutiny software. It reads the drawing elements and lists all
the discrepancies in the drawing. It will processes the file and gives the output with
various parameters as listed below. If errors are found in the drawing, the drawing
will be populated with hyperlinks to the errors and will be returned to the Applicant
via
email.

1. Setback Boundary

2. Multiple Polyline Geometry Problems

3. Invalid object colour

4. Misplaced OTS

5. Existence of Blocks, Regions, Wipeouts & External references

in Floor layers

6. Mandatory requirements and

7. Other critical errors

In the returned drawing, error details will be displayed such as disqualified object
name; floor name and drawing coordinate position. It will also draw a crossed grey
line on all the disqualified objects throughout the returned drawing. Press Ctrl
button and Click on the hyperlink error text, then the drawing will be automatically
zoomed to the error area of the drawing and the applicant can correct and
resubmit the drawing. Incase of critical error, for example Height of the building
line is missing, there will be no hyperlink.
8.0 PROCEDURE TO CREATE A DRAWING

8.1 PARAMETERS TO BE DRAWN USING LINE OBJECTS

1. Gate

2. Basement Floor Height

3. Stilt Floor Height

4. Plinth Height

5. Floor Height

6. Front Margin

7. Side 1 Margin

8. Side 2 Margin

9. Rear Margin

10. Mezzanine Floor Height

11. Building Height

12. Total Building Height

8.2 PARAMETERS TO BE DRAWN USING POLYLINE OBJECTS

1 Plot Boundary

2 Margin Boundary

3 Stilt Parking Area Boundary

4 Rain Water Harvesting Trench

5 FSI

6 Staircase Area
 7 Lift

8 Balcony

9 Block Distinguishing Polyline

10 Bounding Rectangle

11 Visitor Parking

12 Reserved For Cars

13 Parking

14 Car Parking Stall

15 Two Wheeler Parking Stall

16 Percolating Well

17 Habitable Room

18 Dwelling Unit

19. Plot Frontage

20. Site not in Possession

8.3 PARAMETERS TO BE DRAWN USING TEXT OBJECTS

1. Usage of Commercial building such as office, Mercantile etc. and

Usage of Non habitation such as Water closet, Bathroom, Toilet etc.

2. Tree text should be kept as TREES-1 or TREES-2 or TREES-3 etc.

3. Names of blocks, Typical Block text

4. Typical floor text:

In the Text Objects for Typical Floors are followed as

Format: “FLOOR01, FLOOR02, FLOOR03, FLOORn th - Typical”

In the Text Objects for Typical Blocks are followed as

Format: “BLOCK01, BLOCK02, BLOCK03…… BLOCKnth - Typical”

5. Width, Tread, Riser and Handrail, Road Length.

 Color Corresponding
S.No Description Object
Code Layer

1 Plot Boundary 7 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

2 Building Boundary 10 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

3 Margin 4, 6, 2, 3 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

Open
4 Plot Frontage 96 Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Polyline

5 Site Not In Possession 45 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

6 Common Open Plot 36 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

Polyline
7 Security Cabin 134 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text

8 Road Width And Road Length 41 Line & Text Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

9 Rain Water Harvesting Trench 42 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

10 Percolating Well 175 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

Polyline
11 Septic Tank 112 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text
Polyline
12 Trees Plantation 93 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text

13 Stilt Floor Boundary 5 Polyline Floor-Stilt

14 Gate Width 161 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

15 Parking Area 104 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

16 Visitor Parking 152 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

17 Reserved Car Parking 245 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

18 Car Stall 140 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

19 Two Wheeler Stall 101 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

20 Residential Far 181 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

Polyline
21 Dwelling Unit 230 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
Polyline
22 Duplex Dwelling Unit 230 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
181, 6,
23 Mezzanine Floor Polyline Mezzanine Floor
33, 134
Polyline
24 Commercial Far 6 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
Polyline
25 Institutional Far 33 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
Polyline
26 Industrial Far 134 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
 Polyline
181, 6, Applicable Floor - Ex
27 Existing Area &
33, 134 Layer
Text

28 Habitable Room 150 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

Polyline
Water Closet , Bathroom ,
29 81 & Applicable Floor Layer
Toilet , Urinal
Text

30 Corridor 51 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

31 Cantiliver Balcony 35 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

32 Lift 22 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

Polyline
33 Fire Lift 22 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
Polyline
Staircase Width , Tread , Riser
34 115 & Applicable Floor Layer
& Handrail
Text
Polyline
35 Non Far 4 & Applicable Floor Layer
Text
Polyline
36 Solar Energy 93 & Floor-Terrace
Text
37 Open to Sky And Deduction 3 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

38 Open Air Space 11 Polyline Applicable Floor Layer

39 Height the Building 151 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

40 Total Height the Building 233 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

41 Plinth Height 105 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

42 Floor Height 91 Line Applicable Floor Layer

43 Stilt Floor Height 21 Line Floor-Stilt

44 Basement Floor Height 123 Line Floor-Bf

45 Mezzanine Floor Height 23 Line Floor-Mf

46 Parapet Wall Height 17 Line Floor-Terrace

47 Boundary Wall Front 160 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

48 Boundary Wall Side And Rear 110 Line Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

49 Typical Floor Text Type 1 7 Text Applicable Floor Layer

50 Typical Floor Text Type 2 7 Text Applicable Floor Layer

Polyline
51 Block Distinguishers 10, 50 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text
Polyline
52 Typical Block Distinguishers 10, 50 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text
Polyline
53 Section 141 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text
Polyline
54 Elevation 141 & Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt
Text
55 Bounding Rectangle 61 Polyline Floor-Ground / Floor-Stilt

Color Code for Sub Division & Amalgamation

Plots

1 Layout Plot 30 Polyline Floor-Ground

Polyline
2 Sub Division Plot Boundary 2 & Floor-Ground
Text

3 Internal Road Width 243 Polyline Floor-Ground

Open
4 Internal Road Length 180 Floor-Ground
Polyline
Polyline
5 Old Document Plot 152 & Floor-Ground
Text
Polyline
6 Amalgamation Plot 7 & Floor-Ground
Text
 Polyline
7 Combined Amalgamation Plot 2 & Floor-Ground
Text

8 Common Plot 36 Polyline Floor-Ground

2, 30, Polyline
9 Submission Of Sub Division Plot 243, & Floor-Ground
180, 36 Text
152, 7,
Polyline
Submission Of Amalgamation 243,
10 & Floor-Ground
Plot 180, 30,
Text
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