Concept: Shop floor terminal to read CAD drawings

[Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors]

Fons van der Beek wrote:

>http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/program.php
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>
>To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:06 AM
>Subject: Re: Concept: Shop floor terminal to read CAD drawings
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>>--On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:41 AM -0500 Michael Jezierski - Systec 
>>Conveyors <mjezierski at systecconveyors.com> wrote:
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>>>Our engineers here use AutoCAD to produce drawings. We are contemplating
>>>using a system on the shop floor to allow the workers there to look up
>>>drawings with a CAD file viewer.
>>>I know about WINE but wondered if anyone has come up with a CAD viewer
>>>native to Linux?
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>>If you can serve the files from Windows or Solaris, Autovue has a 
>>client/server version that just needs a Java-capable web browser on the 
>>client:
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>><http://www.cimmetry.com/thin-client_solutions.html>
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>>If you find out more, let us know. I'd be interested in this myself.
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Kenneth and Fons - this looks like something that might work. I'm 
considering thin client technologies or at least deploying the obolete 
office workstations onto the shop floor with a free or low cost thin 
client. I don't want to put a bunch of money into Citrix. I do have a 
Windows 2KS box to serve up the files from.

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Mike Jezierski - IT Engineer
Systec Conveyors - Indianapolis, IN
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