NetSPEX consists of five primary software components:

NetSPEX Central Server – NetSPEX Central Server contains tools for storing CAD standards and distributing them to mirror servers (if deployed). It also includes license management tools. NetSPEX Central Server is a web server application that communicates with other NetSPEX applications such as NetSPEX Administrator and NetSPEX Designer via Microsoft IIS.

NetSPEX Mirror Server – NetSPEX Mirror Server is an optional module that contains tools for replicating and synchronizing the CAD standards database on remote servers. Data is stored in XML and synchronized automatically.

NetSPEX Administrator – NetSPEX Administrator provides tools for creating, modifying, and administering the NetSPEX CAD standards database. NetSPEX Administrator is included with NetSPEX Central Server.

NetSPEX Designer – NetSPEX Designer is the user interface for placing standards-compliant drawing components from the NetSPEX CAD standards database into AutoCAD and MicroStation drawings. The NetSPEX Designer interface content changes automatically based on drawing selection, and the dialog minimizes automatically to reduce screen clutter.

NetSPEX Compliance Checker – NetSPEX Compliance Checker is used to check AutoCAD and MicroStation drawings for CAD standards compliance, fix non-compliant components, generate reports, and produce CHK files – used to store comments and identify non-compliant components for segregated repair operations. NetSPEX Compliance Reader is designed to read CHK files and repair non-compliant drawing components. The Compliance Checker is an integrated feature of NetSPEX Designer.