Re: CAD output formats?

Subject: Re: CAD output formats?
From: bbachman -at- justicesystems -dot- com (Blaine Bachman)
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:48:50 -0600



Michael Collier wrote:
>
> Our hardware engineer wants to get "D" size drawings from a vendor in a
> format that he can view on his PC (we don't run any CAD software here).
>
> The vendor may have the source file in AutoCAD, or it may be another CAD
> tool.
>
> What do these CAD systems export to that can be viewable without the CAD
> system - should we request PDF, DXF, or some other image format? Our
> engineer has FrameMaker and Visio.

When I worked at Honeywell several years ago, they had a viewer that
allowed viewing AutoCad drawings on a regular PC (through the network).

For the life of me, I can't remember what it was called.

(Not a lot of help, I know!)

-Blaine

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