Alpharel/Trimco installs first CAD-Connect at ScottishPower.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1996--Alpharel/Trimco (NASDAQ/NMS: AREL AREL Acute Reference Exposure Level (EPA) ) Wednesday announced that it has successfully installed its first client installation of CAD-Connect at ScottishPower. The supplier of electricity to Central and Southern Scotland, ScottishPower is growing to provide service to other parts of the United Kingdom. CAD-Connect is a revolutionary new product that allows CAD documents to be integrated directly into an enterprise document management system (EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System ), enabling drawing information to be rapidly distributed among all departments without requiring CAD software on each client machine. CAD-Connect was installed in the Scottish Power Scottish Power Limited is a vertically integrated energy company with its headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland, and a subsidiary of the Spanish utility Iberdrola. It is the Distribution Network Operator (DNO) for the central and southern Scotland (voltage Glasgow Transmission Division engineering department, providing transmission engineers with electronic access to all CAD files. Users are now able to comment concurrently on one of 255 named redlining Identifying text that has been changed in a word processing document by displaying it in a special color, for example. It allows the original author of the text or other users to see ongoing revisions. The term comes from manual editing where a red pen is used to mark up the pages. layers; mark-up users now use full 2-D drafting tools, including calibration calibration /cal·i·bra·tion/ (kal?i-bra´shun) determination of the accuracy of an instrument, usually by measurement of its variation from a standard, to ascertain necessary correction factors. , dimensioning, clouds, text and grids. CAD-Connect automatically routes change requests and stores mark-ups as DXF DXF - Drawing Exchange Format translations. "Alpharel/Trimco's CAD-Connect product is the first to link CAD departments with the rest of a company's imaging system," said Jay Tanna, Alpharel/Trimco executive vice president. "Since it is the only product on the market that can provide a link between vector and raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). files, demand for CAD-Connect should be high, particularly from within the CAD-engineering world." An earlier installation at the ScottishPower Power Systems division made Trimco-PRO the utility's standard technical document management system, and are expanding the engineering drawing department to include 20 additional AutoCAD/UNIX workstations. Trimco-PRO provides a simple and flexible network-wide document management system for technical and engineering users. Core modules include a universal database manager, annotation/viewing software and a viewer for a wide range of file formats. Alpharel/Trimco is a leader in delivering enterprise-wide integrated document management and imaging systems to thousands of customers around the world. These systems are installed in manufacturing, utilities, petrochemical petrochemical, any one of a large group of chemicals derived from a component of petroleum or natural gas. The cracking processes for manufacturing gasoline produce vast quantities of gaseous hydrocarbons. , government, banking, transportation and other industries. Documents of all sizes, from letter-size pages to large-scale engineering drawings are handled rapidly over global networks in a very cost-effective manner. Alpharel and Trimco products and their customers have won numerous industry awards over the past few years. CONTACT: Alpharel/Trimco Stephen P. Gardner/John W. Low 619/625-3000 619/546-7671 (fax) info@alpharel.com http://www.alpharel.com |
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