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Mike_Vader
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Weblink to Item Drawings
12/03/03 at 12:32:26
 
The recent update from IS Tech support for weblinks to vendors was very well received at my company  Smiley but it also brought up a very useful and similar application that I believe would be even more helpful for many manufacturers....  
 
Could we set up IN-B to have a drawing specification weblink?   This link could even be print (optionally) as a drawing specification that would allow vendors to see exactly what you mean when looking for a part that is difficult to describe.
 
Would this be possible?
 
 
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Re: Weblink to Item Drawings
Reply #1 - 12/03/03 at 14:18:39
 
Not exactly sure what you mean.  Could you explain more fully exactly how this would function.  If it is for passing information to vendors, it is something associated with inventory items that wouls pull into Purchase Orders?
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Reply #2 - 12/03/03 at 14:57:37
 
Sorry Lynn,
 
Actually, I just meant a weblink that would be part attached to the parts master instead of being vendor specific.
 
Is that possible?
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Reply #3 - 12/03/03 at 16:06:33
 
Enter the link in IN-B and then in IN-B and IN-A if you click a WEB button it takes you to that page which might be a page from a vendor catalog or something?  That is definitely possible!
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Reply #4 - 12/03/03 at 16:15:39
 
You got it now  - that's what I'm talking about
 
It would be really, REALLY great.
 
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Reply #5 - 12/04/03 at 04:59:47
 
If there is the capability to have weblinks to drawings & vendors, how about links internally from WO to cad drawings for shop usage?
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Reply #6 - 12/04/03 at 08:19:18
 
...or link from IN-A to CAD viewer...invoke a program and pass the drawing location as an argument...viewer program defined somewhere as default, along with location of drawing files, with individual drawing file defined in item master.
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Reply #7 - 12/17/03 at 16:57:11
 
This week's IS Tech Support update will include Phase 1 of this enhancement.  These features can all run in the standard TAS 5 DBA.  The TAS 6 Evolution menu is NOT necessary for any of this.
 
IN-B will have a place to enter a path and file to link to anything related to the item - could be a PDF file, JPG or GIF, Word Document or web page either on the internet or your local intranet.  Anything Internet Explorer can open can be used.  IN-A, RO-A, BM-A and the item lookups in SO-A and PO-A will have a camera icon you can click to open the linked file.  As other programs are compiled, the icon will be available everywhere there is an inventory lookup.
 
Phase 2 will enable multiple links per item - drawings, MSDS sheets, processing specs - anything you want that IE can open and each link (if it is a printable file type) can also be tagged to print as part of the shop paperwork when travelers are printed.  
 
Phase 3 will be the actual printing of the linked files with Traveler printing and may be sold as an add-on rather than part of the standard update but phases 1 and 2 will definitely be part of standard IS Tech updates.  
 
For DBA users who are not yet IS Tech Support subscribers, a free version of the Phase 1 features in IN-A and IN-B will be made available, albeit with annoying splash screens of shameless advertising for IS Tech.   Wink
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Reply #8 - 12/18/03 at 14:10:15
 
This sounds fantastic...almost.  We can't view our drawings in IE.  They're in Autocad (and related programs).  Autodesk sells VoloView to view and print files like these.  Could this module invoke VoloView instead of IE?  More broadly, could the user specify a default for the viewer?
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Reply #9 - 12/19/03 at 06:50:01
 
With all these new features on the way, you are taking away all of the incentives to go EZIJOBZ. Keep it coming!
 
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Reply #10 - 12/19/03 at 09:45:40
 
With regard to viewing autocad files ... Create DWF files of your "signed off" Autocad drawings.  
 
These can be displayed in IE using the Autodesk Express viewer:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=2404513&siteID=123112
 
To create DWF files, use the DWF Creator:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=3429570&wac= HYPERLINK
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Reply #11 - 12/19/03 at 10:46:10
 
Kevin, I realize we could create .dwf (or .pdf, or whatever) of all drawings.  We're not going to maintain our thousands of drawings in two different formats...not only is the work involved unjustified (and I'm lazy, darnit), but then there are two places to access one drawing, which means that they could differ...this really leads to problems.  This is why we're looking for solutions like this to get away from paper copies of drawings as well.
 
Viewers like VoloView (and there are lots of others for Autocad, and lots more for other formats) avoid this:  everyone works from the same document, and only those who need write access need have it.  It shouldn't be hard to invoke a different viewer from DBA.
 
Another approach might be for DBA to open the file (drawing, instructions, or whatever) using the file type associations in the registry.
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Reply #12 - 12/19/03 at 11:21:52
 
Mike's right, we already have to locate a zillion copies of drawings in the paper format, we certainly don't want that problem existing in the computer.  We need to retreive in the format we are working in, in our case.dwf or .dxf
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Reply #13 - 12/19/03 at 12:21:39
 
Hmmm...this could work.  IE already uses file associations, so it opens the necessary application...Acrobat (or Reader) for .pdf, Word for .doc, or whatever associations you have defined in Windows Explorer (not IE), Tools, Folder Options, File Types.  (Normally, these are set up when you install applications.)  
 
On this machine, Autocad is registered for .dwg files.  A machine without Autocad (MDT, etc.) but with VoloView (or whatever viewer) should start the viewer from IE...job done, at least if it prints from VoloView instead of Autocad.
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Reply #14 - 12/22/03 at 08:39:04
 
That was the idea in the first place. Use IE and let the file associations do the rest. Version 2 of this will allow for multi documents/dwg's etc.. to be attached to any part #  Version 3 will be printing them from WO-C  and maybe other places in DBA... We have many more new and exciting enhancements planned for DBA. The more people who sign up with ISTECHSUPPORT the better the funding for futur development.... Cheesy
 
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