Technical drawings often have alphanumeric strings such as “TB- 2877:02” that must be searched as a single word. For example, a search on “building” also finds the text string “bldg.”
Docupoint’s implementation of the dtSearch user thesaurus allows the administrator to quickly identify the abbreviations used and associate them to the full word. Field search capabilities also allow DrawingSearcher, for example, to limit a search to the title block area of the drawing.Ībbreviations are common in technical documentation. It’s a great supplement to the dtSearch product line for the engineering world.”ĭrawingSearcher takes advantage of the full range of dtSearch search functionality including:ĭocuments can be located by any text or number string inside the file including visible and hidden attribute values.įor a more selective search, a drop down list allows the user to specify that the search will only retrieve drawings from a particular category. “We encourage people looking to search their AutoCAD drawing archives to try the DrawingSearcher solution. is very pleased to be a part of Docupoint’s Web-based AutoCAD solution,” said Kate Tretter, dtSearch Corp.’s Director of Operations. In addition, the dtSearch support team promptly and professionally answered our development support questions.” We were particularly impressed with dtSearch’s ability to handle mixed number and character strings as well as its fielded search capabilities. “It quickly became apparent that the dtSearch Engine provided the highest level of functionality for our application. “We set out with the goal of developing the best possible search solution for AutoCAD,” said Brad Bishop, Vice President of Docupoint. For searching, Docupoint wanted DrawingSearcher to find drawings or other document types via a Web browser just like using a search engine on the Web.ĭocupoint’s development team chose the dtSearch Text Retrival Engine to embed in DrawingSearcher.
In addition to providing search on text inside AutoCAD drawing files, Docupoint’s goal was to read all the text, attributes (visible and non-visible) and block names in all documents on a network and index them into a text search engine stored on the index server. With its latest version of DrawingSearcher, Docupoint sought to enhance its text search capabilities. DrawingSearcher takes a unique approach to CAD file management by providing a Web-based full-text search application for AutoCAD drawing files. With such a large number of drawings, finding the correct file can be a time consuming and error-prone task. It is not uncommon for an organization to have tens or even hundreds of thousands of CAD files online. Drawing files are typically kept for the lifetime of a facility, often 20 – 30 years. Docupoint’s DrawingSearcher provides a 21st century solution to solving the challenges of managing a large archive of AutoCAD drawings.
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