| Plugin | The Cadigence add-in for AutoCAD, used by designers to submit drawings and see comments on the drawing. |
| Web portal | The browser app where reviewers, managers, and admins work. No AutoCAD needed. |
| Project | A group of related drawings for one client or job. Has a project code. |
| Task | One drawing’s worth of work, owned by a designer. Has a task code. |
| Iteration | One round of work on a drawing, a new iteration starts each time it goes back for revision. |
| Submission | A drawing sent for review. The plugin renders it to a PDF at submission. |
| Mapping | The link between a drawing file and its task. A drawing must be mapped before it can be submitted. |
| Review PDF | The PDF the plugin creates from your drawing at submission. Reviewers mark this up. |
| Comment | A markup pinned to a spot on the drawing, with a severity and a reply thread. Also called an annotation. |
| Must-resolve | A comment the designer must fix before the drawing can move forward. |
| Advisory | Informational guidance. The designer doesn’t resolve advisory comments, and they don’t gate resubmission or approval; the reviewer closes them automatically when they approve the drawing. |
| Pipeline | The chain of approval levels (1–5) a drawing passes through. |
| Level | One step in a pipeline, with a reviewer and an authority type. |
| Authority type | What a level’s sign-off represents: technical check, engineering approval, or client acceptance. |
| Substitute reviewer | A stand-in assigned to a level for when the main reviewer is unavailable. |
| Effort | The active working time the plugin records on a drawing while you work. Idle time is not counted. |
| Violation | A flagged change to a locked, approved, or unmapped drawing. |
| Audit log | The append-only, timestamped record of everything that happened to a drawing. |
| Seat | One designer license. Reviewers, managers, and admins don’t need one. |
