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| Tracking
CAD version changes using RasterServer |
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the names of CAD files with each new version gets complicated. There's
always the risk that new changes will be made on an older, incorrect,
version. RasterServer provides the solution to this problem and simultaneously produces a robust and secure archivable change history. The method is simple: Each time a new version is approved the engineer saves a copy of the approved CAD file to a folder polled by RasterServer. The file is named with the version as a suffix. So, for example, when version 4.2 of a CAD drawing named A28731.dwg is approved the engineer saves a copy of it to a polled folder and names it as A28731_4.2.dwg. |
RasterServer
takes A28731_4.2.dwg and converts it to a raster file named
A28731_4.2.tif (for the example we've assumed that TIFF has been
selected as the format for archiving purposes). The beauty of this approach is that only the one A28731.dwg ever exists for subsequent changes while the latest and all previous versions can be easily viewed as A28731_4.2.tif A28731_4.1.tif A28731_4.0.tif A28731_3.3.tif A28731_3.2.tif etc. (How can you easily spot the differences between drawing versions? Ask us about the new drawing comparator feature in our DrawingCenter viewer. ) |
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