Difference between clodis and autocad

[piyush.parihar24]

What exactly is the difference between cloudis software and AutoCAD being Base the same. Can we not do the work of Cloudis in AutoCAD?

[pendean]

Cloudis offerings:
CMPIC – Cable management software
CABCENTRIC – Infrastructure cable management software
icePAC – Records and document management system

AutoCAD, plain AutoCAD, does none of these.

So what is it you wish to do in AutoCAD?

[TheCADnoob]

Cloudis is a plugin of sorts. Its more advanced than that but for the purpose of this discussion thats the best way to think of it. 

If all you are interested in is drawing then you dont need cloudis. however if you want the drawing data to also have ties to an external database complete with all the other relations in those databases, you would need cloudis or something like it. 

AutoCAD (vanilla AutoCAD) creates generally 'dumb' geometry. Cloudis (or at least the parts that are relevant to CAD) connects those elements to a more meaningful database. 

[john.vellek]

Hi @piyush.parihar24,

Cloudis is engineering software that is discipline specific. If you are designing systems such as cabling and need to use cable management then this is perhaps the appropriate software application.

It is possible to do this work in AutoCAD but the geometry is linework and doesn't inherently provide any other data collection. You can certainly connect data to a database for management purposes using the DBCONNECT feature in AutoCAD. You can also use Fields and Attributes that can be connected to the geometry as a means to store data and to be extracted into tables or Excel files.

I suggest that if this is a one-off project that will have a long life it might be worth going through all the work of getting it into AutoCAD.  If you are planning on doing multiple and varied projects it makes more sense to utilize software designed specifically for that purpose.

[john.vellek]

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[piyush.parihar24]

Can we bring those features in AutoCAD by developing a tool or lisp or Script?
Or CAn we make 3 different add-in like :
CMPIC – Cable management software
CABCENTRIC – Infrastructure cable management software
icePAC – Records and document management system

in AutoCAD

[piyush.parihar24]

I was out of Station hence was not so active on this forum.
Sorry For the inconvenience made by me. But the solution is not given by forum people and accepted as solution.

[jggerth]

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@piyush.parihar24 wrote:
Can we bring those features in AutoCAD by developing a tool or lisp or Script?
Or CAn we make 3 different add-in like :
CMPIC – Cable management software
CABCENTRIC – Infrastructure cable management software
icePAC – Records and document management system

in AutoCAD

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Well, yes you can.  It will require custom programming, and probably cost a lot of money and require constant updating -- but it's possible for you to do that.  Or hire someone who has CAD programming, database, and cabling expertise.  Heck, you might even end up with something salable.

Whether it's worth it or not, is a different question and the answer depends on how much you are willing to budget? 100 euros, 1 million euros?

[piyush.parihar24]

Ok