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News Release from: SolidWorks Corporation | Subject: DWGgateway
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 February 2005
Free software brings AutoCAD users
together
AutoCAD users who need to work with multiple versions of DWG files can now work confidently with any DWG file, regardless of the AutoCAD version that produced it.
Designers working with AutoCAD who have to use more than one version of a DWG file are now able to work with any DWG file, whichever version of AutoCAD created it, and they won't get error dialogues or find themselves having to get a different release of the software The free software, called DWGgateway, and obtainable online from SolidWorks, can be added to AutoCAD quickly
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Oct 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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AutoCAD software users have downloaded a free software component from SolidWorks that enables them to work confidently with any DWG file, regardless of the AutoCAD software version that produced it.
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The DWGgateway data translation tool now offers the ability to publish AutoCAD designs in the popular Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
It allows AutoCAD releases as early as AutoCAD R14 to read, edit, and save 2D DWG or DXF files produced by newer releases like AutoCAD 2005.
That means users of AutoCAD 2000i are now able to use DWG and DXF files from AutoCAD 2004 or 2005 just by implementing DWGgateway.
Additionally, the DWGgateway also allows AutoCAD 2005 to AutoCAD 14 to create DWG and DXF files in legacy formats, right back as far as AutoCAD Release 2.5.
It negates AutoCAD owners' need to get new releases solely in order to share ordinary 2D designs with contemporaries and others, and makes sure that an AutoCAD user will be able to interface with anyone else and avoid irritating "incompatible version" warnings.
SolidWorks Corporation's Vice President of Research and Development, Chris Garcia, says that the DWGgateway is the newest of a range of utilities for design engineers which will allow better transfer of design data.
He said: "In SolidWorks 2005 software, we introduced the DWGEditor tool, which allowed customers to read, edit, and save any DWG file produced by any version of AutoCAD".
"Our customers asked if their colleagues using AutoCAD could have the same capability, so we're delivering it, free, in the same spirit we created eDrawings for easy exchange of designs and XchangeWorks for importing 3D models into AutoCAD".
"As always, the overarching goal is building new customer relationships and helping designers and engineers more quickly bring better products to market".
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