Case Study: Teknion achieves faster, more accurate installation guides and expanded design libraries with Autodesk AutoCAD

AutoCAD helps Canada’s top office furniture design company

Teknion, an award‑winning Canadian office furniture company with roughly 3 million square feet of facilities and 3,000+ employees, faced the challenge of selling and delivering highly configurable workspace systems as the market shifted toward co‑working and blurred price/value segments. To enable dealers, architects, and installers to visualize, specify, and assemble its modular furniture, Teknion relies on Autodesk AutoCAD (and increasingly Revit) to create and share detailed design files and installation documentation.

Using Autodesk AutoCAD, Teknion’s graphical assets team produces consistent 2D/3D symbols, installation guides (typically completed in about one week and released with each product cycle every four months), and a public CAD library for dealers; they also run Excel‑driven scripts in AutoCAD to batch‑process catalogs of up to 80,000 pieces overnight, removing manual work. The Autodesk tools have increased consistency and efficiency—symbols rarely contain errors, dealers and architects can generate layouts and pricing faster, installers receive clear guides, and Teknion has expanded support into Revit to meet BIM workflows.

Teknion

Leah Brown

Graphical Assets Specialist