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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.
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