What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
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I am researching various offerings to provide document management for our vast library of AutoCAD drawings, images, documents and metadata. We need the ability to check-in and check-out drawings, manage revisioning, search, preview, and relate drawings to documents, images, and tables of metadata. Lastly, the system should be reasonably easy for a single IT person to setup in a reasonable amount of time.
We currently use an older, and client-based version of Cyco's AutoManager Workflow. It is unacceptably slow and unreliable. I am considering moving to AutoManager meridian.
I am an IT person, not an engineer or drafter, so I am not very familiar with this area.
Can anyone recommend a document management solution that fits these criteria and tell me about your experience with it?
We currently use an older, and client-based version of Cyco's AutoManager Workflow. It is unacceptably slow and unreliable. I am considering moving to AutoManager meridian.
I am an IT person, not an engineer or drafter, so I am not very familiar with this area.
Can anyone recommend a document management solution that fits these criteria and tell me about your experience with it?





RE: What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
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RE: What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
The pessimist says the glass is half empty. The optimist says the glass is half full. The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
What it does :
1) provides a very flexible pseudo file directory that coexists perfectly with Win Explorer. This enables users to group documents from many machines, servers, sites etc according to project or client etc.
2) Has good file viewers for AutoCAD, MS Word and hundreds of other apps.
3) Has a good file issue facility.
4) Has modules that run inside AutoCAD and MS Word to automatically extract title, author, revision etc to simple text directories.
What it does not do :
1) Report format is a rather primitive quote-separated text file, so you need to write your own filters to make use of the reported data.
2) Intentionally has no security or check-in/check-out facilities, and assumes these will be handled by the OS and specialist apps / procedures.
RE: What AutoCAD file/document mgr you use?
I've identified a few that would probably work for us.
Has anyone had any experience with Cyco Software's Auto-Manager Meridian?
How about Kamel software's Weblook 2000?