DRAWING Librarian

This product was retired in the late 1990s. See CADview for current solution.

"A CAD Manager's dream, DRAWING Librarian provides an excellent array of redlining and linking features." --- "You would be hard-pressed to find another viewing package at any price that offers as much while remaining easy to use." PC Magazine

Analyst's Choice from PC Week. "SoftSource's DRAWING Librarian Professional 1991.7 stands out from the crowd, however, because it displays drawings with total accuracy. None of the other evaluated programs could do this during PC Week Labs' tests." PC Week.

Highly Recommended - CADalyst.

The latest review is from the June 1994 issue of Cadence.

Features

DRAWING Librarian (DL) allows you to...

Display AutoCAD DWG, DXF(release 2.5-12), SLD, HPGL, and PCX files.
Print any of these file formats and plot AutoCAD DWG, DXF and SLD.
Use DL as a frontend to AutoCAD by allowing you to load a drawing to AutoCAD.
Translate AutoCAD DWG, DXF, SLD, and HPGL to DXF, SLD, HPGL, or PCX.

DRAWING Librarian Professional (DP) adds to DL's features the abilities to...

Redline any files. This lets you non-destructively markup drawings.
Link your drawings together with graphic hyperlinks. This is very similar to the hypertext feature of Mosaic and other interfaces to the World Wide Web.
Completely customize DP with its built-in script language.
Access all of DRAWING Librarian for Windows' capabilities through DDE.

DRAWING Librarian is available under DOS, Windows.

The DOS version

DRAWING Librarian Profession for DOS

Two flavors of DRAWING Librarian are available under DOS, DRAWING Librarian Standard and DRAWING Librarian Professional. If you are interested in what can be done with these programs, we have an article on how CH2MHill is using DRAWING Librarian.

Display and Print

AutoCAD drawings
DXF
AutoCAD slide (SLD)
AutoCAD HPGL plot files (PLT)
PCX (Professional only)

Load to AutoCAD

AutoCAD drawings
Standard/binary DXF
Redlining markups (Professional only)

Translate

DWG/DXF/HPGL/SLD to DXF
DWG/DXF/HPGL/SLD to SLD
DWG/DXF/HPGL/SLD to HPGL
DWG/DXF/HPGL/SLD to PCX (Professional only)

Redline (Professional only)

AutoCAD drawings
DXF
AutoCAD slide (SLD)
AutoCAD HPGL plot files (PLT)
PCX

Links (Professional only) - To drawings or scripts

Scripts (Professional only) - Customize DRAWING Librarian. We also have a bonus disk which ships with DP which was created with scripts.

The Windows version

DRAWING Librarian for Windows

We have recently licensed DRAWING Librarian for Windows to US Gypsum to frontend their symbol library.

Display and Print

AutoCAD drawings
DXF

Load to AutoCAD

AutoCAD drawings
Standard/binary DXF

Translate

DWG/DXF to DWG/DXF
DWG/DXF to Clipboard/Metafile/Bitmap

DDE - Automate DRAWING Librarian from Visual BASIC, FoxPro, etc. Take a look at our downloadable samples for some sample Visual Basic code for doing DDE.