For architects, engineers, construction teams — and building information managers — issuing drawings from Windows
Built to BS EN ISO 19650 and the UK BIM Framework naming convention — pick every field from a dropdown, never type a code from memory. ViewTwo turns issuing a drawing into one click instead of ten, and keeps your own drawing issue sheet up to date automatically as you go.
Every feature runs free for 30 days from install. After that, it's £4.99 a user a month or £49.99 a user a year — see pricing below.
Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt on first run since ViewTwo is a small independent tool — click More info, then Run anyway. Perfectly normal for early-stage software; more on why here.
*Bring your own existing issue sheet (.xlsx) — ViewTwo fills it in automatically, it doesn't design one for you. Output is standard .xlsx, but tested against Microsoft Excel only; compatibility with LibreOffice, Google Sheets or other spreadsheet apps isn't guaranteed.
Re-Name builds this from real ISO 19650 field data — you pick every field from a dropdown, never type a code from memory.
These are the five things that eat up the most time issuing drawings in a standard Windows setup — and the reason ViewTwo exists.
ISO 19650 naming is a long string of codes — role, level, type, classification, revision. One typo means a drawing that doesn't sort, doesn't search, and doesn't match what the rest of the team is using.
Someone has to remember to open the register and type in the drawing number, revision and date after every single issue. It only takes one missed entry for the record to stop matching reality.
It shows you a raw folder tree, identical everywhere, so you re-navigate the same deep network path from scratch, every morning, on every machine.
WIP, Shared, Published — without a system enforcing it, it's down to whoever's issuing to remember what stage a drawing is at, and to not send the wrong one.
Handing it to one person means trusting them to also know the naming convention, the current revision status, and who's meant to receive what — with no safety net if any of that's wrong, the mistake goes out the door with the drawing.
See it in action
ViewTwo complements Windows Explorer, not replaces it — getting you where you want to be, quickly, robustly and simply. It sits quietly in your tray, organised around what you're actually working on, not just where files happen to sit on a drive.
Windows Explorer
Shows you a disk. Every folder looks the same, wherever it lives. You navigate down through the same deep structure to find what you need — every time, from scratch, on every machine.
ViewTwo
Shows you your projects. Pin what you're actually using, name it right the first time, move it through revision, and hand it straight to a colleague — all from one panel, regardless of which drive, server, or cloud folder it happens to live on.
Designed by a practicing UK architect — built from the real frustration of navigating the same filing systems on every project.
Re-Name gives a fresh export its first compliant name. To Issue takes it through to issue. Drop gets it to a colleague. Pins save you the daily grind of finding any of it in the first place. To Record logs what comes in and goes out. Nothing is ever renamed in place — every stage creates a new, correctly named copy.
Right-click any export and build its name field by field — level, type, role, revision — picked from dropdowns sourced from real project data, never typed from memory.
Advance a named file through WIP, Shared and Published revisions with a proper revision log and a dedicated pre-issue repository. Bump several already-issued drawings to their next revision at once, straight from the panel.
Send a file or folder straight to a colleague from the panel or Explorer's right-click, with automatic path resolution across shared storage.
Stop re-navigating the same deep network path every morning — pin it once, it's one click away for good. Export your whole pin set and hand it to a colleague, so your team is working from the same organised setup in seconds. No server, no sync software, no new technology to learn. Illustrative estimate: roughly 2 hours saved in a typical 37-hour working week, not spent re-navigating to folders you use every day.
See the titles of the drawings a consultant sent without opening them, then log who sent what and when — and what you sent — in the project's own log. Nothing filed, nothing moved.
One person, safeguarded
Re-Name enforces the naming convention, To Issue won't let a revision skip a stage, and Drop only ever sends from the correctly-issued copy — so one person in the office can be trusted to issue for the whole team while you're busy, without everyone else needing to know the system well enough to check their work.
One price for everyone, per user. Every feature runs free for a 30-day trial from first install — Re-Name, To Issue, Drop, Pinning, New Project and File Messages, all of it — with no card needed. After the trial, choose monthly or yearly. Buying for several people? Set the number of users and it's one purchase and one licence key. Prices exclude VAT/sales tax, calculated and added at checkout based on your billing location.
£4.99 / user / month
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