GlossaryKind of term: BlakeWorkspace
What is a workspace in Blake?
The workspace is your company's environment in Blake: requests, parts, quotes and the factory together, so everyone works from the same data.
One workspace belongs to one company. Parts sit there with their model, drawing and revisions, the factory with its machines, materials, subcontractors and rates, alongside incoming requests and the quotes. Everyone with access works from the same parts and the same rates.
How does the workspace work in practice?
When two colleagues each keep their own spreadsheet, they can arrive at different costs for the same part because of an outdated rate or a different price per kilo. When they work from the same data, a difference is more likely to come from a decision, such as two setups instead of three, than from different inputs.
What is the workspace often confused with?
In machine and robot specifications, workspace can also mean the volume a machine can reach, its work envelope; that is a different meaning. Nor is the workspace the factory: the factory is the part of the workspace that holds machines, materials, subcontractors and rates. And it is not a shared drive: a drive holds loose files, while in the workspace, part, revision, estimate and quote belong together.
How do you see the workspace in Blake?
You create a request from STEP and PDF files, for several parts at once if needed. Model and drawing are paired per part by file name; where that is ambiguous it stays open until you confirm. Each part keeps its revisions. More on requests.
Frequently asked questions
What does the workspace hold?
Your requests, the parts with model, drawing and revisions, the quotes, and the factory with machines, materials, subcontractors and rates.
Do the cost engineer and the manufacturing engineer share a workspace?
Yes. They open the same parts, see the same proposals from the drawing and calculate with the same hourly rate per machine. For each confirmed or corrected drawing value you can see who did it and when.