Concept: Shop floor terminal to read CAD drawings

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:41 AM -0500 Michael Jezierski - Systec 
Conveyors <mjezierski at systecconveyors.com> wrote:

> 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?

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:

<http://www.cimmetry.com/thin-client_solutions.html>

If you find out more, let us know. I'd be interested in this myself.