I understand that we are able to print to ecabinet. Can we print from Auto CAD application to eCabinet, and if so how would we have eCabinet do the searc for the drawing?
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You can deliver to eCAB as a DWG, but you have to have an application to open it on each desktop. Why not use a TIFF / PDF then you drag to eCabinet, & eCabinet via Scan Capture will prompt you for the fields you have programmed. Those fields become the index info.
You could use Scan Capture on DWGs so you could find the correct file, but unless you have an application to open DWG / PLT, does not do much good.
Did that help?
What do you think?
You could use Scan Capture on DWGs so you could find the correct file, but unless you have an application to open DWG / PLT, does not do much good.
Did that help?
What do you think?
I think that may be the "ticket".
So, the customer would have to save the drawing as a pdf and then print or drag to the ecabinet folder of choice?
When would you do the indexing after? After or before sending to ecabinet?
Thanx, I think this will work, I just need the talk track for my demo on Monday.
Art
So, the customer would have to save the drawing as a pdf and then print or drag to the ecabinet folder of choice?
When would you do the indexing after? After or before sending to ecabinet?
Thanx, I think this will work, I just need the talk track for my demo on Monday.
Art
I'll have to check it out. I guess it voloview.com
We did test with Tiff's. This worked with no problems. We used PC Capture to get the file over to the eCabinet. Scan capture needs a TWAIN driver in order to be used so I don't think this would work with the wide format controllers. PDF's should work fine. I personally didn't test DWG files but this should also work. This file would look for the application to be installed on the local workstation in order to be opened.
from a RFG Solutions person
You won't be able to print directly to the Wide Format (WF) via eCabinet. The printer driver needs to be 100% PCL compatible and the WinPrint driver needs to be printed to directly.
What you might be able to do is setup a separate printer in Autocad printing that points to a paperless printer on the eCabinet.
The user would have to process a separate print job when they wanted to send a job to the eCabinet. The jobs would be saved as PDFs on the eCabinet.
You also should be able to take scanned Tiff files and pass them to the eCabinet through Scan Capture. This would require a separate step but you would be able to index them and the TIFF files could be converted to PDFs.
Or as John said drop the files in a folder so PC Capture can forward them to the eCabinet.
from another solutions person
from a RFG Solutions person
You won't be able to print directly to the Wide Format (WF) via eCabinet. The printer driver needs to be 100% PCL compatible and the WinPrint driver needs to be printed to directly.
What you might be able to do is setup a separate printer in Autocad printing that points to a paperless printer on the eCabinet.
The user would have to process a separate print job when they wanted to send a job to the eCabinet. The jobs would be saved as PDFs on the eCabinet.
You also should be able to take scanned Tiff files and pass them to the eCabinet through Scan Capture. This would require a separate step but you would be able to index them and the TIFF files could be converted to PDFs.
Or as John said drop the files in a folder so PC Capture can forward them to the eCabinet.
from another solutions person
voloview used to be avialable - see attched. What is customer work flow - applications?
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Doing the presentation on Monday, I am not sure of all of the requirements, however I want to have the bases covered when questions arise.
Will tell more on Monday afternoon or evening.
Art
Will tell more on Monday afternoon or evening.
Art
Found this on the net, is this still the case?
Q: Can an AutoCAD file be captured to and indexed on an eCabinet?
A: There are two ways to capture an AutoCAD file.
One way is to store the original CAD files on eCabinet using PC Capture and assign notes data to search and retrieve. In this case no OCR or text extraction will be performed.
The second way adds the auto-indexing capabilities of eCabinet. This way would require running the CAD drawing through a converter which will generate an image file format (TIFF, PDF, etc.) that can be OCR'd by eCabinet. In this case, the document stored on eCabinet will be the output of the converter (image file) and not the original CAD file.
There are several software packages out there that will do the conversion.
Below are some CAD converters and websites:
CAD Viewer: http://www.rockware.com/catalog/pages/cadviewer.html
Free single converter:
http://www.MyndKryme.com
http://www.myndkryme.com/products/ottopdf.html
http://www.myndkryme.com/products/ottotiff.html
Free Batch converter:
http://www.tailormade.com/
http://www.tailormade.com/cadserver.htm
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On the AutoDesk site (http://partnerproducts.autodesk.com/catalog/category.asp?category=908) there is a list of AutoDesk Partners and the available converters for various CAD file conversion programs.
Q: Can an AutoCAD file be captured to and indexed on an eCabinet?
A: There are two ways to capture an AutoCAD file.
One way is to store the original CAD files on eCabinet using PC Capture and assign notes data to search and retrieve. In this case no OCR or text extraction will be performed.
The second way adds the auto-indexing capabilities of eCabinet. This way would require running the CAD drawing through a converter which will generate an image file format (TIFF, PDF, etc.) that can be OCR'd by eCabinet. In this case, the document stored on eCabinet will be the output of the converter (image file) and not the original CAD file.
There are several software packages out there that will do the conversion.
Below are some CAD converters and websites:
CAD Viewer: http://www.rockware.com/catalog/pages/cadviewer.html
Free single converter:
http://www.MyndKryme.com
http://www.myndkryme.com/products/ottopdf.html
http://www.myndkryme.com/products/ottotiff.html
Free Batch converter:
http://www.tailormade.com/
http://www.tailormade.com/cadserver.htm
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On the AutoDesk site (http://partnerproducts.autodesk.com/catalog/category.asp?category=908) there is a list of AutoDesk Partners and the available converters for various CAD file conversion programs.