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QC Status

Reads the drawing-resident QC stamps that Lot QC , Pipe QC , and Road QC write into every drawing they audit, and answers: did QC run, when, by whom, what did it find, and has the drawing changed since? Current mode reports the open drawing; Folder mode side-loads every DWG in a directory to a CSV.

Command VDCQCSTATUS · VDC QC tab › Drawing QC panel
Reads the drawing-resident QC stamps that Lot QC, Pipe QC, and Road QC write into every drawing they audit, and answers: did QC run, when, by whom, what did it find, and has the drawing changed since? Current mode reports the open drawing; Folder mode side-loads every DWG in a directory to a CSV.
Reads the VDC_QC_STATUS stamp inside each .dwg, last audit per tool + a save-counter currency verdict. CURRENT, open drawing Named Objects Dict. → VDC_QC_STATUS Lot QC cbarrett 06-11 v1.5.2 → 0 flags Pipe QC cbarrett 06-11 v1.3.3 → 2 flags Road QC NEVER RUN save counter at stamp: 47 drawing save counter now: 50 [WARNING: saved 3× after QC, results may be stale] +1 = current, more = edited after QC, re-run the tool FOLDER, side-load *.dwg A-01.dwg A-02.dwg A-03.dwg read directly, nothing opens VDC-QC-STATUS.csv A-01 | Lot ok | Pipe ok | saved A-02 | Lot ok | Pipe NEVER RUN A-03 | saved 2× after QC one row per drawing is the whole submittal QC'd? cross-check: VDC-QC-LOG.txt beside the drawing (Notepad-readable layer 1)
QC stamp / drawing (VDC_QC_STATUS)   Pass / CSV output   Flags / stale warning   Never run / saved-after

What it does

  • Reader only: the QC tools own the writing; this command never audits or edits.
  • Source: an Xrecord in the named objects dictionary (VDC_QC_STATUS), tool, version, user, local timestamp, mode, result summary, and the drawing's save counter at stamp time.
  • Reports the last Run per tool plus any later Clear / Waive / Unwaive.
  • Currency: compares stamped save counter to current, +1 = [CURRENT], more = saved N× after QC (stale).
  • Cross-checks the folder's VDC-QC-LOG.txt; a log line with no stamp (or vice versa) is itself a signal.
  • Stamp lives in the .dwg binary, travels through copy / rename / eTransmit, can't be edited in Notepad.

Modes & outputs

  • Current (default): status block for the open drawing, last audit per tool, later Clear/Waive, currency verdict, last-saved time, whether the log exists.
  • Folder: pick a directory; every *.dwg is side-loaded (nothing opens), one line per drawing with NEVER RUN / saved Nx after markers.
  • Folder mode writes VDC-QC-STATUS.csv into that folder for Excel.
  • Verdicts: [CURRENT], [WARNING, saved Nx after], [stamp from this session, save to persist], NEVER RUN.
  • No settings: no settings.json, no env var; Folder's directory picker is the only UI.
  • Pitfall: NEVER RUN also appears for drawings edited on machines without the VDC bundle, trustworthy only when the tools were available.

Dialog

QC Status dialog
QC Status, VDCQCSTATUS

When to use it

  • Confirming which drawings have been QC'd without opening each one.

How to run it

  1. Run VDCQCSTATUS and choose Current or Folder.
  2. For Folder, pick the folder to scan.
  3. Review the report (and the CSV for Folder mode).

Options

  • Current: status for the open drawing.
  • Folder: scan every drawing in a folder to a CSV.

Watch out for

  • Status reflects the last audit stamp - a drawing edited after QC may show as stale.

Related: Lot QC · Pipe QC · Road QC