EPD-DWG Viewer – A Free Application Plugin for AutoCAD that allows design engineers to share an EPD-Created DWG file with other non-EPD users or 3rd party fabrication houses that receive EPD designs. The EPD viewer environment will display the drawing and maintain the embedded design information and polylines just as it were made with our software programs. The EPD Viewer also includes a useful set of tools that are available in the full EPD software such as highlighting electrical nets, searching and isolating specific entities, design reports and advanced view-controls.
About the EPD-DWG Viewer Install
and Use: The EPD Viewer installation will
create a new ‘profile’ for the host
program (AutoCAD) that will
run our ARX executables upon start-up
and insert a new pull-down menu for
access to the commands and under the new
profile. Also a desktop icon will be
created to open the host program using
the new ‘profile’. After the Splash
Screen appears, the EPD environment is
loaded and then users may ‘Open’ the .dwg
file to see the design as would be seen
in our software environment.
EPD-DWG Function: The EPD-DWG Viewer will
pre-set the design environment so when
an EPD drawing is opened, the polylines,
layers, numbers and blocks will remain
intact as they were made in EPD. Our CDSPolyline line types are available
through ARX executables, which without,
the polylines would be viewed as regular
LWPolylines (standard AutoCAD Light
Weight polylines). The difference is the
CDSPolyline simulates the exact
appearance of the resulting Gerber
entities with rounded ends and vertices.
We also have other EPD-Specific line
types such as a Stripline and SCOMP
which will only display with the ARX
executables.