pune citybased softtech has added more technology to its flagship automated construction plan approval platform autodcr via ai ar and vr to enhance user experiencethe company said autodcr in which computeraided design cad drawings of construction plans by architects and developers are automatically checked and evaluated by relevant authorities was already in use by over 600 urban local bodies nationally softtech said it had also signed agreements with iitbombay as well as iisc bengaluru the experience till now has been a mix of challenges there are funds and manpower issues in the urban local bodies to implement such a platform as well as nontransparent processes and to make it work in a manner that can be useful for them but there were leaders who were initially resistant to this idea but have taken it up now said softech md vijay gupta while discussing the firms recent move to a new and unified hq in banergupta said the firms expansion plans were taking it overseas we are aggressively looking at the us market for expansionwe see a huge potential there and have already set up a subsidiary there which is talking to authorities he said