The CAD to WINdows missing link

CADtoWIN

Solution Price and features

We offer a complete Enterprise Document Management System (EDMS) with our CADtoWIN product. To be able to have a CAD EDMS we assume you have Windows server and its Windows client licenses along with Microsoft SharePoint.

We have the following licensing schemas

CADtoWIN Enterprise Document Management System

* This cost per year is optional, includes CADtoWIN updates/upgrades plus email support.

 

 

CADtoWIN EDMS feature list

 

· Support for the latest SharePoint version: CADtoWIN works with all SharePoint versions from the ones released in 2003 to the most recent.

· Easy deployment/configuration: No need to install anything on your SharePoint server to start using it. You do not need to configure any SharePoint document library to have the SharePoint collaborations features enabled from inside of your AutoCAD application.

· Work with native format: No need to convert your AutoCAD files, you can open, edit and save them to your SharePoint site in its native format much the same way MS Office application does with SharePoint sites.

· Major and minor versioning: Publish your AutoCAD files and track your draft versions. You can open, restore and delete your versions within your AutoCAD and its verticals applications.

· External references support: Load or save your drawing dwg, raster, dwf and dgn underlay external references from or to your SharePoint site, all within your AutoCAD application, also you can edit your dwg references in the host drawing and they will be automatically updated to your SharePoint document library. With CADtoWIN external reference manager, information on external references “where-used” can be easily obtained.

· Publish, check in and check out drawings from AutoCAD: Used for version control and online protection of your working files.

· Offline check out within AutoCAD: This is a new feature that CADtoWIN has available only for the newest SharePoint version. Allows you to work without network and faster, by using your local folders. In addition, your drawings external references will be loaded locally too. Once you finish working offline, you can work back online by updating your drawing changes to the SharePoint site.

· Metadata support from your AutoCAD: Organize your drawings by setting built-in or custom properties, search your drawings by using the SharePoint powerful metadata search engine or CADtoWIN search feature. You can set custom metadata at folder level.

· Multiple title block support: CADtoWIN synchronize your drawing title block metadata with its corresponding SharePoint one. This will allow title block attribute search support by SharePoint.

· Edit AutoCAD drawings from the SharePoint site: Our solution allows you to use the SharePoint pull down menus to launch and edit your AutoCAD files.

· Basic file operations within AutoCAD to SharePoint site: Open, save, save as, delete file or folder, folder creation, easy navigation support across multiple sites or servers, external references import/export/remaps tool, file preview, etc.

· Windows authentication: No need to create a set of credentials to access your SharePoint site from AutoCAD. Set the permissions at a folder level using your windows domain or local groups/people accounts.

· Workflow support: Allows you to create a drawing approval path for drawing publication. You can create custom drawing workflow tasks as simple or complex as you need.

· Collaboration features: Email notifications, alerts, subscriptions, reports, team discussions, calendars, site announcements etc.

· Scalability: It support any amount of users, drawings, folders, document libraries, etc.

· Combine MS Office documents: Have all your CAD and MS Office related files on our CADtoWIN EDMS, so you can reduce your IT maintenance operation (e.g. backups, single server hardware/software, etc) . By keeping a mixture of CAD and MS Office files together you can consolidate your project files for a better logic organization. Since we mimic the same MS Office functionality to SharePoint in our CADtoWIN product, you can exchange this expertise for regular MS Office documents and CAD files saving in training costs.

· Fast and easy to install: CADtoWIN is a very efficient AutoCAD plug-in. No need to install anything on your SharePoint server to start using it. Installs in less than a minute and does not interference with your AutoCAD application performance.

· Multiple drawings support: When working with multiple drawings on the same AutoCAD application, CADtoWIN intelligent menu and toolbar operations will change according to the allowed operations.

· Extranet/Internet SSL support: Need to work with SharePoint sites across the world?, CADtoWIN will connect your CAD application to remote SharePoint servers using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for https sites.

· Support for Microsoft Office Live sites: Works with SharePoint Online, Microsoft Small Business and Workspaces sites, learn more here.

 

 

 

Main features comparison between demo and commercial versions

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