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CaptureVue™

Content Collaboration & HotSpots

CaptureVue for OpenText Content Server and eDOCS DM

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CaptureVue from Cad-Capture combines the market leading enterprise visualisation solution, AutoVue from Oracle, with the strength and depth of the OpenText ECM Suite. Providing the ability to get true value from your engineering models, drawings and data, CaptureVue is unparalleled in its versatility and range of features in the ECM market today.

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Deployed globally across multiple industry sectors, CaptureVue delivers the ability to create, control and distribute general office documents and complex engineering data in a fast, efficient and secure manner – taking the best of the OpenText benefits to the engineering community.

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CaptureVue Datasheet – Download

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OpenText ECM

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CaptureVue integrates with Content Server and eDOCS DM, ensuring controlled access to documents and enabling mark-up creation, printing and real-time collaboration directly from the ECM user interface.

Multi format viewing​

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CaptureVue supports the vast majority of major 3D, 2D and office formats – over 450 different file types can be viewed without the need for the originating applications, including 3D formats from AutoCAD, MicroStation, SolidWorks and Solid Edge.

Mark-up and redline capabilities​

 

Easily mark-up documents with a variety of entities such as clouds, notes, text, measurements and symbols, and save into the ECM.

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As part of a design review, multiple mark-ups can be opened and consolidated, and a sign-off stamp used to ensure security and compliance. Mark-ups from previous document versions may be loaded to ensure all necessary revision changes have been made

Real time collaboration

 

Multiple users can review, comment on and discuss documents together in real-time, with the resultant mark-up being stored in the ECM, containing the list of collaborators. This helps speed up the design review process, enabling faster decision making and reducing the need for travel, saving time and money

Printing and watermarks

 

Powerful printing capabilities enable users to print documents either singly or in batches to both large and small format printers, adding watermarks, stamps, headers and footers. Headers and footers may include attribute data from the document, and can be controlled centrally. Mark-ups can be printed with the document, which can be printed in its entirety or only a specified area, to scale or to fit. CaptureVue matches pen colours and line widths to the CAD authoring application, enabling identical prints to be produced

Beyond comparison

 

Instantly identify the differences between versions of a drawing with the in-built compare changes feature – highlight omissions, additions and unchanged information in both 3D models, 2D drawings and PDFs. Identify components in 3D models and dynamically highlight all other occurrences of that component in the model.

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Web based viewing

 

As a true thin client with a light footprint, CaptureVue provides the ability to access and work on files without the need for expensive CAD tools. Rotation, measurement, explosion and 3D walkthroughs are all available within a standard web browser, from anywhere where access is permitted

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A complete solution

 

CaptureVue solutions integrate with OpenText CAD Manager for Content Server and CaptureLink for eDOCS DM, allowing AutoCAD and MicroStation models and drawings (including Xrefs and inserted rasters) to be created in, controlled by and distributed within Content Server and eDOCS DM environments and beyond. This means you can manage all your office documents, engineering drawings and legacy files within the ECM, and then distribute them to a wider audience – allowing the right person to view the right version of the right drawing/document… at the right time!

CaptureVue integrates with OpenText Content Server (formerly Livelink Enterprise Server) and eDOCS DM

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Oracle’s AutoVue also provides a multi-format viewing, mark-up and real time collaboration integration for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, ENOVIA MatrixOne, Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) and Oracle Agile PLM, Autodesk Vault

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View, Mark-up and Collaborate in real time on CAD files created in MicroStation, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks Solid Edge, CATIA Pro/ENGINEER …and many more

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Over 450 file formats supported including PDF, Microsoft Office, All major graphics formats, inc. TIFF, Legacy formats, inc. WordPerfect and 1-2-3

CaptureVue for OpenText Content Server and eDOCS DM

 

CaptureVue from Cad-Capture combines the market leading enterprise visualisation solution, AutoVue from Oracle, with the strength and depth of the OpenText ECM Suite. Providing the ability to get true value from your engineering models, drawings and data, CaptureVue is unparalleled in its versatility and range of features in the ECM market today.

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Deployed globally across multiple industry sectors, CaptureVue delivers the ability to create, control and distribute general office documents and complex engineering data in a fast, efficient and secure manner – taking the best of the OpenText benefits to the engineering community.

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CaptureVue Datasheet – Download

OpenText ECM

 

CaptureVue integrates with Content Server and eDOCS DM, ensuring controlled access to documents and enabling mark-up creation, printing and real-time collaboration directly from the ECM user interface

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Multi format viewing

 

CaptureVue supports the vast majority of major 3D, 2D and office formats – over 450 different file types can be viewed without the need for the originating applications, including 3D formats from AutoCAD, MicroStation, SolidWorks and Solid Edge.

CaptureVue HotSpots

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CaptureVue HotSpots takes the benefits from CaptureVue, the market leading visualisation and collaboration solution, to a whole new level. In addition to providing a standard viewing interface across the whole organisation the HotSpots module means that decisions can be made faster, with greater accuracy and less reliance on uncontrolled documents such as PDFs and hard copy prints.

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CaptureVue HotSpots Datasheet – Download

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Faster and better decisions

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  • Dramatically streamline search and retrieval processes

  • Link disparate systems and silos of information

  • Use drawings as a dash-board for reporting and better/faster decision making

  • Smash the barriers between structured and unstructured data

  • Allow documents and drawings to drive business activity from one document/location

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HotSpots

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CaptureVue HotSpots from Cad-Capture builds on the Augmented Business Visualization framework Oracle have recently introduced into the market-leading enterprise visualization solution, AutoVue, providing links between text and zones in drawings and enterprise structured data. CaptureVue HotSpots provides organisations with a fully-featured, easy-to-use interface to define when and how textual data can appear in drawings and documents.

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Click here to learn more about HotSpots.

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Benefits Across Industry

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We believe CaptureVue HotSpots to be an exciting proposition for all organisations using drawings or documents containing information about structured data. CaptureVue HotSpots can improve productivity in the Oil & Gas, Facilities Management, Engineering and Construction, Energy and Manufacturing, sectors and will provide similar improvements in any asset or product-intensive industry.

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Examples vary widely from business to business. With CaptureVue HotSpots configured to recognise Continuation Tags, Equipment, and Lines on a P&ID (Process & Instrumentation Diagram) users can click on Continuation Tags to jump to the specified drawing in the ECM, and click on a piece of Equipment or a Line to display data from SAP or other ERPs. When the user right-clicks on a piece of Equipment, they can initiate a request for an Order for a spare, and similarly with a Line they can request Maintenance.

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  • Asset Management

  • Facilities Management

  • Oil and Gas / Process

  • Manufacturing

  • Utilities

  • Legal / Finance Sector

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Visualise Report Data on Drawings

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With CaptureVue HotSpots organisations can automatically colour HotSpot text based on existing data sources. This ensures report data is live and meaningful in the context of a process or plan rather than a simple list in Excel.

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For Facilities Management businesses this means users with Tablet PCs can tour buildings with the plan displayed showing rooms requiring maintenance.

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Trigger Actions in Context

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CaptureVue HotSpots allows organisations to define HotSpot types, and register what text makes up the HotSpots. When a drawing or document is loaded in CaptureVue the HotSpots are recognised, so when a user hovers over a HotSpot it will change to the defined colour, showing the user that further information can be shown or actions triggered.

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Different actions may be associated with HotSpots. This ensures that actions are always meaningful to the user, based on the text clicked-on.

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It is also possible to define the default action for any HotSpot, so the user can initiate an action or see information efficiently.

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Maintain HotSpots centrally

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All HotSpot actions and definitions are stored and maintained centrally regardless of the documents, data or business systems they link to.

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As organisations acquire, build and integrate new systems they can be linked into existing drawings and documents immediately using the HotSpots Management Module.

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Connect Unstructured and Structured Data

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Organisations invest huge quantities of time and money in capturing and maintaining their Unstructured Data (drawings and document) and Structured Data (databases, transactions), and the systems used to manage them. However, these data types often remain separate, only being linked manually on an ad-hoc basis.

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Users often request the ability to link to relevant data from areas or entities on drawings, and to visualize data on drawings, for example in the form of a report showing scheduled maintenance.

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Using CaptureVue HotSpots means that these requests can now be seriously considered, and solutions materialise quickly without difficult development or customisations.

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Once implemented, the ROI can be immediate with users having the requisite information at their fingertips rather than having to switch between systems, searching each time to find the required information.

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AutoVue™

Enterprise Visualisation/ Collaboration

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Oracle’s AutoVue is the global leader in Enterprise Visualization solutions for the AEC, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets. Oracle AutoVue viewing, markup and collaboration solutions support hundreds of native formats: 3D CAD parts & assemblies, 2D CAD drawings, PCB/IC layouts and schematics, scanned and raster documents, vector files, office documents and graphics.

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As a certified partner for Oracle’s AutoVue, Cad-Capture offers a comprehensive range of AutoVue capability. Able to supply consultancy, support and training as well as unique integrations to leading document management systems such as OpenText eDOCS DM (formerly Hummingbird), Cad-Capture are the partner of choice for organisations wanting to collaborate efficiently and effectively with the latest viewing technology and integrations.

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Industries catered for:

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  • Oil and Gas

  • Engineering and Construction

  • Manufacturing

  • Aerospace and Defence

  • Automotive

  • Utilities

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Organisations in all industries are under increasing pressure to deliver high quality products to market faster and within budget. With products becoming more complex and project teams and suppliers spanning the globe, organisations must introduce mechanisms to efficiently and securely access, view and share information and project documents.

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AutoVue native document viewing, mark-up and collaboration capabilities optimise the access and flow of information and documents, providing users with early visibility throughout the product development process. With AutoVue, organisations can streamline visualisation and collaboration across the global enterprise with minimal disruption to people and processes.

  • Access Hundreds of Document Types through one viewer

  • Accelerated Viewing of Complex CAD Files

  • Allow Real-Time Collaboration

  • Enforce Server-Based Privileges and Permissions

  • Fully Scalable to allow effective communication across the extended enterprise

  • Tight integration with existing systems such as PLM, DM and ERP

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CaptureLink™

Drawing Management

CaptureLink from Cad-Capture brings true OpenText eDOCS DM integration to CAD

It enables drawings and their associated content such as Xrefs and rasters to be stored into, managed within and retrieved from eDOCS directly from the AutoCAD application, helping maintain consistency across an organisation, facilitating better decision making and improved productivity.

Key features & benefits

Faster and better decisions

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  • Increases productivity by providing faster access to drawings, speeding up document production, and minimising time spent searching for or recreating information.

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  • Improves decision-making by enabling access to all types of document across the organisation, enhancing the corporate knowledge base.

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  • Maintains integrity and consistency by validating title blocks with eDOCS metadata and maintaining version and audit information.

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  • Transforms the availability of information by capturing text and metadata from inside drawings and making it available on enterprisewide queries, helping users find relevant information whenever and wherever needed.

 

  • CaptureLink works with AutoCAD 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (64bit), AutoCAD Raster Design 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

 

  • CaptureLink integrates with OpenText eDOCS DM versions 5.31, 10.x and 16.x

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In addition to CaptureLink, Cad-Capture also provides the ability to view, mark-up, red-line and collaborate effectively using its CaptureVue range. Based on Oracle’s award winning AutoVue, it enables true collaboration across the enterprise and allows non-CAD users to access CAD information in a secure and managed environment.

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eDOCS™

(Formerly Hummingbird Enterprise)

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eDOCS DM eliminates the mounting inefficiencies caused by the inability to manage documents as well as the “islands of information” prevalent in many global organizations

It helps control document-based knowledge assets by enabling users to capture, organize, locate and share business content in a secure, integrated, and intuitive environment. From documents, email, graphics, and forms to discussion threads, engineering drawings, scanned paper and electronic-based records, content is consolidated in a unified enterprise knowledge base for easy access and retrieval.

Enabling Knowledge Worker Productivity

eDOCS DM increases productivity by enabling faster access to content, providing control over multiple document versions, and enabling users to better organize documents, whether it be through the use of folder structures, tailored workspaces, or compound documents. Seamlessly integrated with standard applications used to create and capture content, eDOCS DM provides a rich user experience that minimizes the time spent learning the document management system and simplifies the ways it is used to generate business value.

Relieving Administrative Burdens

eDOCS DM features a scalable platform and distributed architecture designed to maximize system availability and performance. Content metadata is easily configured to provide contextual interfaces for the capture and retrieval of knowledge assets. Rapid system deployments are achieved without visiting workstations, and maintenance is simplified with Web and Microsoft Windows utilities that support centralized as well as delegated system management.

Multiple Views for Multiple Audiences

In addition to browser-based and desktop interfaces (Explorer and Microsoft Outlook based interfaces) for power users, eDOCS DM provides a new, extremely intuitive environment that offers basic, information consumer level document search and retrieval functionality.

Part of a Complete and Integrated Content Management Solution

Document management is a key component of a wider enterprise content management strategy. With the OpenText eDOCS Suite integration as well as a range of companion solutions, OpenText allows organizations to arrange and manage all documents, regardless of type, in one repository.

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