What You Should Know About CAD Viewing SoftwareCad viewing and collaboration is an important component when creating engineering designs. There is a wide range of applications in different industries which require cad viewing solutions. Cad viewing software is required by companies which offer solutions for different industries such as ERP, supply chain management, content management and process workflow. Even the railways use cad viewer software to extract graphical information of the entire railway network. There are many vendors who offer cad viewer products and you will also find many free cad viewing software on the Internet. However, not all products are feature rich and one should ideally try to find a product which has many advanced features. The software should be platform independent and work on different platforms and web browsers. The feature set of the software should include a communication module which will help in online collaboration between dispersed teams. Let us now check out some core features of a cad viewing software. The software must not require any native CAD software. If this is not the case, then you will require different viewing software for viewing drawings developed using different software. There are also viewing software which are available for viewing drawings designed with one particular software. Autocad viewer software is suitable for viewing cad drawings developed in Autocad. Many of the software are developed using Java technology. It is important that the Java client should install when the application is being run. Though, the feature looks simple but it will definitely save you the time of installing Java client separately. The standard feature of the software must have layer controls, multi-page browsing, rotate and mirror drawing, text search, background color change and zoom in/zoom out features. The software should display standard geometry elements such as line thickness, mirrored text and viewport configurations. The software must be able to support true type fonts and live hyperlinks within the drawings. This is an important feature because designers may want to give additional details about the drawing and live hyperlink support would lead directly to the resource web page. High resolution printing support must be available in the software. Graphical user interface and user friendly features makes any software attractive to end users. Right-click pop up menu selection and running bar display of processed files are common but important features of any cad viewing software. Circles, lines, cloud, rectangle, ellipse should be drag and drop features and options available to add text. The enterprise version of many cad viewing software have more features than the professional or single use versions. Hence, it is important that you map your requirements with the available feature set of the software. Many software have a standard version and optional versions that have to be bought by paying extra. All these points should be carefully noted before you buy. The price points need to be checked out and it can vary depending on the feature sets and the technology used. Definitely, a freeware cad viewer will have less features than a full version software. Make a note of all the discussed points before making the purchase. |