Pro Engineer / PDF

[ChrisNovrocki]

Pro Engineer / PDF Gurus,

We are looking for the best possible way to make all engineering
information available electronically to the general population (people
without Pro/E).

The only solution we keep coming back to is PDF.

Is there anyone out there that gets all of their Pro Engineer drawings
into PDF format ? If so, what do you use to create them, digitally sign
them and how do you all manage this information ? I think the ultimate
goal here is for the master copy of the drawing to be in PDF format
instead of a paper copy.

We would also like to do this with reports, AutoCAD drawings, ECR's,
etc.... (anything and everything electronic)All information under one
format.

Is there a better idea out there than PDF ?

Thanks in Advance,

_____________________________________________________________
Chris

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[t3cyborg]

Chris,

Adobe Professional 7.0 works for us and our vendor/customer base. You can
also create .pdf files of your shaded images.
Give me a call and I'll send you a sample file. ( Professional 7.0 creates
html files with electronic signatures, mark-ups etc.)

Regards,

Gary Vance
Manager, Design Services
Product Engineering
Bristol Compressors, Inc.
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[unknown1]

A few weeks ago I received a packet from "eDrawings for Dummies".
(I am not insinuating!) It looks interesting but I have not had a chance
to look into it. The claim is it will view ACad, Inventor, SolidWorks,
ProE, CATIA and Unigraphics/NX.
Files can be set to view or not view
Can toggle through simple or complicated user interface
Can manipulate drawings (zoom, area, rotate, pan, perspective
Can add comments on drawings (collaboration)
Can markup drawings
Anyone can open the email file because the viewer is encapsulated in
the email
Can save as eDrawing file, Zip, HTML, .exe
Can measure drawings
Assemblies can be exploded and animate (ProE, SW, Unigraphics)
The eDrawings viewer will save in JPEG, TIFF, and BMP to use in
PowerPoint
brochures, data sheets, Web pages.
Can enable STL output.

These excerpts are taken from the pamphlet I received in the mail.
A CD came with it
but I have not done anything WRT evaluating. It has a time limit, ~2 weeks.
I have a similar problem and this might work for me. I make no
judgment here,
only passing this along. It might be good, it might not, I don't know
now. It appears
to be related to SolidWorks somehow.

Hope this helps, let us know if (someone) gets to working with it.

MICHAEL

Chris Novrocki wrote:

>Pro Engineer / PDF Gurus,
>
>We are looking for the best possible way to make all engineering
>information available electronically to the general population (people
>without Pro/E).
>
>The only solution we keep coming back to is PDF.
>
>Is there anyone out there that gets all of their Pro Engineer drawings
>into PDF format ? If so, what do you use to create them, digitally sign
>them and how do you all manage this information ? I think the ultimate
>goal here is for the master copy of the drawing to be in PDF format
>instead of a paper copy.
>
>We would also like to do this with reports, AutoCAD drawings, ECR's,
>etc.... (anything and everything electronic)All information under one
>format.
>
>Is there a better idea out there than PDF ?
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>

[HugoHermans]

Do you think PDF is an appropriate format to archive technical drawings ?
Since PDF is a propriatary format, what guarantee do you have you will be
able to read in within 20 years ? I feel more comfortable with an open
standard, or an ISO-standard.

Regards, Hugo.

"Chris Novrocki" <-> wrote in message
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>
> Pro Engineer / PDF Gurus,
>
> We are looking for the best possible way to make all engineering
> information available electronically to the general population (people
> without Pro/E).
>
> The only solution we keep coming back to is PDF.
>
> Is there anyone out there that gets all of their Pro Engineer drawings
> into PDF format ? If so, what do you use to create them, digitally sign
> them and how do you all manage this information ? I think the ultimate
> goal here is for the master copy of the drawing to be in PDF format
> instead of a paper copy.
>
> We would also like to do this with reports, AutoCAD drawings, ECR's,
> etc.... (anything and everything electronic)All information under one
> format.
>
> Is there a better idea out there than PDF ?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>

[unknown1]

While the PDF format may not be an open standard, it is well-supported
by companies other than Adobe. The ability to read a PDF file does not
lie only with Adobe. It exists in a number of free programs and is
built in to the Mac operating system.

I'd feel safer trying to open a 20 year old PDF than I would trying to
open a 10 year old Pro/E file.

Bill

[FredericVannest]

iirc, PDF has an "open" standard (though the adobe software might have
some little extra features, not sure about this).

[brianadkins]

Also, keep in mind that there are not a lot of formats that are not
'owned' by someone:

DXF = AutoDesk
HPGL = Hewlett Packard
GIF = Compuserve
TIFF = Adobe (after they bought Aldus
http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html#q5)
PDF = Adobe
Postscript = Adobe

-Brian

[ChrisNovrocki]

I would like to thank everyone for all of the posts.
You have all be extremely helpful.
I owe this group about 75 beers...maybe at the PTC conference.

Thank you,
Chris