In last week’s post on the winner of the “dashboard” competition, I suggested I’d follow up with a post we could all use to gather suggestions for using AutoCAD I/O. This is that post.
Here are some potential Activities (or uses of the AutoCAD I/O service) that the AutoCAD I/O team brainstormed during a recent internal discussion:
- Translation
- e.g. DWG to PDF or image formats, or the other direction
- Object property extraction
- Block attribute extraction
- CAD standards reporting/enforcement
- Drawing cleanup
- Audit/recovery service
- Anti-malware service
Some of these are a little nebulous or speculative – particularly in the latter half of the list – but I’ve included them to help spark the discussion.
What would you like to see provided by a DWG-processing service such as AutoCAD I/O? Post a comment if you have a suggestion for something you’d like to see developed (bearing in mind that this is a public forum: if you suspect you might want to monetise it, in some way, you may want to play your cards closer to your chest ;-).
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