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- CADSHELL: THE CAD FILE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
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- Drawing File Management Systems vary in several ways.
- Enclosed in this package, you will find Cadshell 2.1. In the
- January 1991 issue CADENCE Magazine tested 5 Cad Management
- Systems. We invite you to read the article, analyze these
- softwares; then compare them to Cadshell 2.1. I personally have
- managed an Autocad based office of 10+ draftsmen and found this
- type of software a must to maintain order. In nearly two years
- of using this software we have not lost a single drawing due to
- someone failing to back-up, or two people working on a drawing
- simultaneously. The system simply makes simultaneous usage
- impossible, and drawings requiring a backup plainly visable.
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- Four of five systems in the article require your fileserver
- to be setup in the way that they see fit. For instance some of
- the other softwares only allow a drawing to be edited from the
- fileserver (i.e. no downloading to a local harddrive). This can
- create unwarranted network traffic and slow everybody down. Some
- people prefer to check out the drawings and download them to a
- local drive permitting users to continue to operate even when the
- network is down. This presents a drawing management headache,
- who has what drawing and what is the latest copy of it? Enter
- Cadshell 2.1 the drawing management solution. With Cadshell
- drawings are monitored and checked in and out just as you would a
- book from a library. Cadshell becomes your company's Cad police.
- Three of five softwares were able to launch Autocad. Of
- course, Cad-Shell has this capability also. Most of the systems
- performed basic Dos copies, formats, etc. Cadshell works as a
- windowing environment allowing you to use the Dos-Shell of your
- choice for your Dos utilities. Cadshell also features "smart"
- back-up and clean-up of your hard-drive. Cadshell knows if
- drawings are properly backed-up. If not you will clearly see that
- they are still checked out and should be backed up.
- Most of the systems in the article require networking.
- Cad-Shell is equally at home on a network system or your local
- sneaker network. Some of the other systems feature a built in
- drawing viewer program.
- Cadshell 2.1 is able to access any optional viewer program like
- AutoVue from Cimmetry Systems for example. Simply enter the path
- to the favorite viewer of choice in your Cadshell configuration
- and Cadshell will use that viewer. Cadshell 2.1 is the only
- system available with 2-way data flow into and out of the
- drawings. Cadshell features a built in drawing data manager
- that will extract and return Database information directly into
- your drawings. This information may then be exported to an
- external database manager such a Dbase IV or Paradox for further
- processing. What about handchanges? Every office gets
- in a panic now and then and must hand modify a plot directly.
- Only Cadshell 2.1 offers a built in handchange flag that tags
- these drawings and presents a warning screen to the next user
- that a drawing has been hand-modified. This prevents changes
- from being accidently lost.
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- Overall, you will find that Cad-Shell offers the most
- in capabilities as well as flexibility; bringing you, the
- user the most control possible. All of this for only
- $99.95, a substantial savings over all the others. More for your
- money and a better price too. Isn't that the best of both
- worlds? But I don't need a drawing management system you say.
- That's why we are offering this Shareware version of Cadshell
- because many companies do not realize the lost productivity due
- to not having this type of system installed. We all know that
- lost productivity is lost profit. So here it is play
- with it and decide for yourself if this system might not be the
- answer to some of your cad management headaches.
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- * SUMMARY CHART *
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- SOFTWARE USER CONFIG LAUNCHES 2-WAY FLOW REQUIRES PRICE
- SCHEMA AUTOCAD DATABASE NETWORK
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- CADSHELL YES YES YES NO $99.95
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- AUTOBASE NO YES NO NO $2795.00
- AUTOEDMS YES YES NO NO $3495.00
- OPMAN NO NO NO YES $8000.00
- NETMANAGER NO NO NO YES $1995.00
- DRAWINGMANAGER NO YES NO YES $2995.00
- LANCAD NO NO NO YES $5495.00
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- ** Note prices of other software may vary these are as accurate as we could
- find for early 1990.
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- A brief note about this shareware version of Cadshell. Some
- of the items under the utility menu may not function in the demo
- version. Other than this Cadshell 2.1 should be fully functional.
- We hope you will find this a truly useful drawing management
- system and will register your copy. With your $99.95
- registration you will receive the full documentation, support and
- a fully functional disk from Southland Computer Consultants.
- You will also be eligible for an upgrade to Cadshell 3.0,
- expected out some time in mid 1992. Version 3.0 will be
- discounted to all registered users of 2.1. It will have many new
- features, include a mouse driven interface, and many new
- utilities additions.
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- Registration
- _________________________________________________________________
- Yes, please register me and send full documentation and support.
-
-
- * CADSHELL 2.1 DRAWING MANAGER *
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- Company Name______________________________________
- Contact Name______________________________________
- Address___________________________________________
- ___________________________________________
- City,State Zip_______________________ ________
- Phone ( )______-__________
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- _______________________________________________________________
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- Enclose $99.95 and mail to: Joe Backes/Southland Computer
- 6256 Southcrest Drive
- Shreveport, La. 71119
- (318) 635-5503
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- * HISTORY *
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- RELEASE 1.0.............Beta version premiered at Dallas Autocad
- user's group. Good response from all who
- attended.
- (Spring 1990)
-
- RELEASE 2.0.............First production version. Featured entirely
- revamped interface. Cadshell became a
- graphical front end for Autocad as well
- as a complete drawing manager.
- (Fall 1990)
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- New features............New Interface
- Notecards
- Handchange Flags
- Smart Backups
- Misc. Utilities
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- RELEASE 2.1.............General update to version 2.0. Additional
- utilities added including exporting of
- comma delimited file of all filecard info.
- Allowed three different formats to display
- drawing listings in Window 3.
- Added System Status Menu to show key system
- statistics
- (Fall 1991)
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- New features............Export to Database
- Text Editor Utility
- Configurable Directory
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- [ UPGRADES BEING CURRENTLY CODED ]
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- RELEASE 2.2.............Plot Configuration feature to launch Autocad
- using scripts graphically assembled by Cadshell
- NEW UTILITIES ADDITIONS
- (SPRING 1992)
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- RELEASE 2.3.............dBASE IV COMPATABLE DATA FILES AVAILABLE
- (SUMMER 1992)
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- RELEASE 3.0.............Complete upgrade to user interface including
- mouse support.
- (FALL 1992)
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- Notes: AID & TBC_ATT are copyrighted terms as follows. These may be used
- in conjunction with Cadshell. Since Cadshell is developed as an open
- system additional software may be developed by third parties and used
- to access this information. We do reserve the right to alter the
- standard and add to it with future releases of Cadshell.
- Documentation on these structures is available with registration.
-
- AID..............Autocad Interface Data (File Card text file)
- TBC_ATT..........Title Block Control Attributes(Attributes system developed
- for extracting Title Block
- information automatically.)
- Registered users only!!!!
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