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CAD Intranets-- Who Has & Any Tips/Web Links?

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Anonymous
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CAD Intranets-- Who Has & Any Tips/Web Links?

Hello CADManager NGr's!

Is your firm utilizing an Intranet? If so, could you provide specifics,
i.e. set-ups, software, hardware, etc.
I am most interested in the CAD Intranet side of things, yet other items
to see could include business management and practices, human resources,
project resources and management, etc.

Maybe you could post some sample screen shots to the newsgroup:
autodesk.autocad.customer-files

Also, how long (hours or days) did the initial Intranet set-up take?
Utilize consultants? Can you provide costs? How much time do you spend
annually to update or rework the Intranet? Do you have an Intranet
proposal / or set-up document? Maybe you can post samples in:
autodesk.autocad.customer-files

Does anyone have specific web site links to Intranet articles or tips /
tricks? Any web links geared towards CAD / Architecture Intranets would
be most helpful, as well as any books or magazine articles!

Any other comments / statements on CAD Intranets?

Ciao, Terry
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Anonymous
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"Terry Drewes" wrote in message
news:3A5B95D9.34D89D50@attglobal.net...
> Hello CADManager NGr's!
>
> Is your firm utilizing an Intranet? If so, could you provide specifics,
> i.e. set-ups, software, hardware, etc.

What are you after - drawing management or just a site for CAD standards,
tips, links, etc?

Enjoy,
Stef
--
mailto: yodersj@ipass.net || Drafter, Leather-worker
http://www.ipass.net/~yodersj/ || Dos, Win, LT
in progress http://computerhowto.homestead.com/
RFC 1855, section 3.1.1, item 10 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
Message 3 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi Stef!

Primarily I am after CAD Standards... yet I would be interested in any
comments on Drawing Management apart from web services such as buzzsaw.

Thanks! Look forward to your posts! Ciao, Terry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"S. Yoder" wrote:

> "Terry Drewes" wrote in message
> news:3A5B95D9.34D89D50@attglobal.net...
> > Hello CADManager NGr's!
> >
> > Is your firm utilizing an Intranet? If so, could you provide specifics,
> > i.e. set-ups, software, hardware, etc.
>
> What are you after - drawing management or just a site for CAD standards,
> tips, links, etc?
>
> Enjoy,
> Stef
> --
> mailto: yodersj@ipass.net || Drafter, Leather-worker
> http://www.ipass.net/~yodersj/ || Dos, Win, LT
> in progress http://computerhowto.homestead.com/
> RFC 1855, section 3.1.1, item 10 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
Message 4 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I set up a web site that detailed standards, plotter setups, drafting
techniques, do's and don'ts, company policy, productivity tips, training,
short videos for training, file management standards, request forms,
templates, etc. Then updated it with enough new content to keep everyone
visiting. Adding a button in AutoCAD that linked to it was a big help too.

I've done so for other firms, it's a great resource.

Bud Miller
www.BudCAD.com

"Terry Drewes" wrote in message
news:3A5BAA69.7B522FA6@attglobal.net...
> Hi Stef!
>
> Primarily I am after CAD Standards... yet I would be interested in any
> comments on Drawing Management apart from web services such as buzzsaw.
>
> Thanks! Look forward to your posts! Ciao, Terry
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "S. Yoder" wrote:
>
> > "Terry Drewes" wrote in message
> > news:3A5B95D9.34D89D50@attglobal.net...
> > > Hello CADManager NGr's!
> > >
> > > Is your firm utilizing an Intranet? If so, could you provide
specifics,
> > > i.e. set-ups, software, hardware, etc.
> >
> > What are you after - drawing management or just a site for CAD
standards,
> > tips, links, etc?
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Stef
> > --
> > mailto: yodersj@ipass.net || Drafter, Leather-worker
> > http://www.ipass.net/~yodersj/ || Dos, Win, LT
> > in progress http://computerhowto.homestead.com/
> > RFC 1855, section 3.1.1, item 10 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
>
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

"Terry Drewes" wrote in message
news:3A5BAA69.7B522FA6@attglobal.net...
> Primarily I am after CAD Standards... yet I would be interested in any
> comments on Drawing Management apart from web services such as buzzsaw.

We are in the process of putting our CAD Standards on our Internet Web site.
The reason it is going there and not the Intranet is because many of our
clients are now asking for documentation about how we do this and that for
their records.

Our whole web site is being revamped, on a intranet "test" web server, so I
don't have anything to show you. Mostly it's just the table of contents
hyperlinked to each chapter's file. To see some screen shots of our drawing
archive web site, which is Intranet, look in
news://autodesk.autocad.customer-files
for Subject: "Archive Database", Date: 12/20/2000 @ 11:37 EST. The names of
each GIF will tell you what you are looking at.

Our Internet/Intranet web server specs (do not laugh it works):
Compaq Prolinea 486/66
96meg RAM
4gig SCSI hardrive
Adaptec 1504 SCSI ISA controller card
3com 3c509b 10base-T ISA NIC
Windows NT 4 Workstation sp6a
NT Option Pack 4 (web server component in here)
Front Page 98 extensions (locked down as much as possible)

The web site design and testing are not done on this machine, as it takes
forever just to physically log into it. Instead I have the Option Pack
loaded on my machine and do it there. Once I'm satisfied with something I
just copy it over on the network. True we have Front Page extensions loaded
but I have disabled the publishing feature for security purposes.

Limitations: Doing it this way limits you to 10 logged in users. We are so
low traffic that it has never affected us, even when we use it for a active
project's management. I think, though I have no way to prove this, this is
because when folks connect to a general access page, one that doesn't
require a name & password, that it sees that as 1 person (because it does
use a default name & password on those pages).

If you are not after being able to use Front Page, which you can use it just
not it's special components, may I suggest Apache web server. It's free
without the above limitations. Even though I have heard Apache has an ASP
(active server pages) plugin, I have not had a chance to try it so I have
stuck with MS's web server.

Enjoy,
Stef
--
mailto: yodersj@ipass.net || Drafter, Leather-worker
http://www.ipass.net/~yodersj/ || Dos, Win, LT
in progress http://computerhowto.homestead.com/
RFC 1855, section 3.1.1, item 10 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

You might want to have a look at our DrawingSearcher application, a dedicated
internet/Internet search engine & websever for AutoCAD. It includes automatic
DWF/PNG file creation and is fully customizable. There is an on-line demo at
http://www.drawingsearcher.com and a downloadable demo as well.

Steve Potter
Docupoint
www.docu-point.com
"S. Yoder" wrote:

> "Terry Drewes" wrote in message
> news:3A5B95D9.34D89D50@attglobal.net...
> > Hello CADManager NGr's!
> >
> > Is your firm utilizing an Intranet? If so, could you provide specifics,
> > i.e. set-ups, software, hardware, etc.
>
> What are you after - drawing management or just a site for CAD standards,
> tips, links, etc?
>
> Enjoy,
> Stef
> --
> mailto: yodersj@ipass.net || Drafter, Leather-worker
> http://www.ipass.net/~yodersj/ || Dos, Win, LT
> in progress http://computerhowto.homestead.com/
> RFC 1855, section 3.1.1, item 10 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/

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