Enhance your design drawings to be more easily inspected
When it comes to inspection, information contained on a drawing is usually hard to read and manage. Instructions can come in the form of notes. Companies usually create one general note and place it on the first drawing sheet. The general note contains pertinent information about the drawing in numbered notes. These numbered notes are referenced in the drawing by using corresponding symbols.
When reviewing PDF drawings, it can be hard to read the notes as it is necessary to constantly sift through the pages to the first sheet where all the notes are located.
In addition, section views of parts or assemblies can be difficult to locate especially on multi-sheet drawings.
Optimize drawing notes and section view inspection
ETRAGE SmartPDF provides you with the ability to get the note text as an annotation each time a user hovers their mouse over the note symbol in the PDF.
The SmartPDF also provides the functionality of selecting section view call-out symbols and automatically changing the view of the drawing to the sheet and location of the related section view.
SmartPDF is an add-on to the ETRAGE Plot Service™ for PTC® Windchill®, which improves your viewing experience of the created PDF by adding Annotations and Zone References.
Use ETRAGE SmartPDF to:
- Provide better inspection of drawings
- Optimize drafting and manufacturing
- Enable easier inspection
- Decrease the necessary time to manufacturing
- Reduce time waste and decrease design and manufacturing costs
ETRAGE SmartPDF Key Features:
- Support for creating PDF drawings with notes for PTC® Creo® Parametric® 1 and 2, Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 3, 4 and 5, and AutoCAD® drawings
- Support for General, Local, Flag notes and symbols for PTC Creo Parametric
- Support for text notes and block references for AutoCAD
- Support for section view symbols in the CAD drawings
