by Shane Henson — June 8, 2011—Formtek, Inc., a provider of technical data and document management solutions to industrial clients, recently announced significant enhancements to its Engineering Data Management (EDM) solution for the Alfresco open source enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. The Formtek EDM solution now includes a new Formtek EDM Connector for AutoCAD.
The EDM Connector works in conjunction with the Formtek EDM Module for Alfresco, and allows users to interact with the Alfresco content repository—including browse, open, check-in, check-out, and view/edit metadata functionality—directly from within the AutoCAD application. Together, these products provide a pre-packaged, installation-ready, minimal services solution for secure enterprise engineering document and drawing management and collaboration on the Alfresco Open Content Platform.
The Formtek EDM Module defines a data content model specific to the needs of engineers for the management of drawings and documents. Within Alfresco Share, the Formtek EDM Module provides view, edit and advanced search forms that enable engineering metadata to be displayed, edited and efficiently searched. It also supports the DWG, DXF and DWF file formats from AutoCAD, automatically generating thumbnail and flash (SWF) renditions of these AutoCAD formats for display and use within the Share Document Library. In addition, PDF renditions of AutoCAD files can be generated on-demand, and are then stored in the repository.
For more information, visit Formtek’s Engineering Data Management Web page.
