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AutoCAD and SharePoint Working Together
CADnection Advances AutoCAD and SharePoint Co-Operation with
XRef File Handling
Expanded capabilities aid in maintaining data integrity
CADnection facilitates the seamless integration between Autodesk AutoCAD and Microsoft SharePoint. It is specifically designed to allow organizations to leverage the strengths of SharePoint as a data/file repository and collaborative environment for AutoCAD drawings.
AutoCAD users are able to immediately and easily save, check-out/check-in their drawings and reference files to the SharePoint environment. SharePoint users see drawings as any other SharePoint documents. These drawings can be searched upon, viewed and launched into AutoCAD.
CADnection adheres to the native .NET framework defined by Microsoft and adopted by Autodesk. As a result, organizations are able to maintain the unique functionality and strengths of each application.
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AutoCAD Users
AutoCAD users and administrators benefit
by inheriting SharePoint's content management capabilities. This includes
access controls, locking and unlocking drawings and reference files
as required, revision management, where-used information, and extensive
collaboration and workflow capabilities. While in AutoCAD, users can
quickly search and retrieve drawings based on its metadata and/or
content leveraging the SharePoint search capabilities.
SharePoint Users
Drawings and reference files are saved and
maintained as any other file or document in the SharePoint environment.
SharePoint users and administrators are able to leverage a common
repository, content management conventions and policies, and collaboration
and process activities. This can include for example, allowing users
with appropriate access rights to edit title block characteristics,
support versioning, and initiate change control processes and release
operations.
IT Operations
IT organizations benefit by having a single
repository and solution to manage, maintain and backup since drawings
are now part of the SharePoint environment.
Benefits
CADnection unifies the strengths of AutoCAD and SharePoint. The derived benefits will be reflected in improved productivity, product quality and time to market. Attached to all of this is reduced maintenance, support and ultimately a lower cost of ownership.
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Increased Productivity
- Seamlessly integrates design, collaboration
and knowledge management
- Easy access to AutoCAD drawings, related
data, relationships, and status
- Improved team work via workflow and
the virtual team meeting capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint
- Minimal training and immediate usability
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Improved Product Quality
- controlled and secure access to sensitive and/or expensive-to-produce drawings
- avoid duplication of effort via check-out and check-in guided-wizards
- visibility to drawings, revisions, title blocks, reference files and their relationships
- manage drawings revisions and stages
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Reduced Time to Market
- streamline business processes to support drawing change and release cycles
- manage complex relationships between drawings
- improved decision-making via knowledge management and collaboration strengths of SharePoint
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STOP PRESS: CADnection Advances AutoCAD and SharePoint Co-Operation with XRef File Handling
Expanded capabilities aid in maintaining data integrity
The CADnection® product forms a seamless integration between Autodesk's AutoCAD® -- the most widely used engineering and architectural drafting program -- and Microsoft SharePoint® -- a suite of server-based capabilities for data sharing, content management, and business process acceleration.
The new capabilities combine the power of SharePoint's content management platform with an extended data structure specifically designed for treating AutoCAD reference files. This added integration enables users to ensure the data integrity of AutoCAD
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