If you are a Product Company or someone who outsources contract work then you probably have to get 2D or 3D CAD data into the hands of your vendors either for early vendor involvement or quoting or both. Sometimes this can be quite painful. What vendor has what type or version of CAD software? Can they use our ftp server? Can they get through our firewall? Do I really have to fax them another D-sized drawing

Solve many of these frustrations of communicating your CAD data to multiple vendors with CADopener. Use our secure, browser-based file upload feature to send any file type to all of them, at one time. Just fill-out an RFQ, select the file type, input your recipients (up to 6 at one time) and upload the file through CADopener's secure File Send module. Your recipients will be invited to log-in and download the file through CADopener's File Receive module.

CADopener allows virtually any CAD file (2D or 3D) to be sent and read by anyone instantly - approved vendors, potential vendors, collaborators, marketing, process planning, etc. We provide for external AND internal communication of readable CAD data. Now all team members can see that new design, at the same time. Our CADopener Viewer allows anyone to interact with the CAD files just like Adobe Acrobat TM allows anyone to interact with pdf files.

CADopener is a universal solution that works with 2D & 3D files from: Pro/Engineer ^TM, AutoCAD ^TM, SolidWorks ^TM, Catia ^TM, Unigraphics ^TM, SDRC ^TM, & virtually all others. See the File types that CADopener supports.

You will receive more accurate, more timely and more detailed quotes by getting readable CAD data quickly into the hands of those doing the quoting. Only truly effective communication can reduce or eliminate mistakes which cost your project precious time & money.

CADopener is truly effective communication.

Benefits to senders:

• No more faxing of drawings.
• No need to send different formats to different vendors.
• No more overnight mail.
• No more insecure email attachments.
• No more un-useable Cad files.
• No more wasted time.

If you are a job shop vendor, contract manufacturer or someone who does custom contract work to others' specifications, you probably have the need to receive 2D or 3D CAD files to collaborate with or provide quotes for your customers.

Do any of the following sound familiar?

Always seem to have the wrong CAD software or the wrong version of the right CAD software?

Does it take hours to download some large CAD files that are attached to email? Then they still won't open?

Are you forced to PAY others to open and print CAD data for you because you have NO CAD SOFTWARE?

Ever get blamed for having the wrong drawing revision or for mis-reading numbers on a poorly faxed copy of the right drawing revision?

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

You'll probably agree that no one really makes it easy for vendors like you to have all the tools necessary to easily and accurately read all CAD files that your customers send to you.

The fact is, your customers design products, so they need to have sophisticated CAD design software. This makes sense. You need to quote and build parts to their spec. You are not, typically, designing these parts. So does it really make sense that you need to have sophisticated CAD design software when you are only quoting and building? Imagine this analogy: you are hungry for a hamburger to cook at home on your barbecue grill. But instead of simply being allowed to buy 1/2 pound of ground beef to cook, you are forced into buying the entire side of beef.

If sophisticated CAD design software only came in one never-changing variety, that everyone always used, it opened every file, was inexpensive and simple to use -- you would already own it! But, sadly, this is not the case. And, furthermore, all you really need is inexpensive and simple to use CAD viewing, measuring, collaboration and quoting software. It would need to open every file and provide simple access to every measurement and view so you can make recommendations and produce more accurate and timely quotes to close new business. It's really a tool you need for accurate quoting, collaborating and building of parts to your customer's specifications.

That's why we invented CADopener and you access its power through the Internet. In fact all this power happens within CADopener's sophisticated servers. You simply download the CADopener Viewer one time and then you can instantly open, read and use all of your customer's CAD files sent through CADopener. When you are notified of a CAD file to be downloaded, you access the secure download page and retrieve your file using the CADopener File Receive module. The CADopener Viewer allows access to all CAD files just like Adobe Acrobat TM allows access to pdf files.

CADopener supports 2D & 3D CAD files from virtually all CAD systems. See the File types that CADopener supports.

Benefits to recipients:

If you already receive CAD files from current customers, you know that sometimes you have difficulty opening their files. Perhaps they sent a different version or file format than they normally do. Just a slight different software revision is enough to make your job difficult. Or perhaps they dropped off a CAD disk or CD to your salesperson. Now you may have to stand on your head to open and use all of this data.

This is where CADopener comes to your rescue. Just send the files to yourself through the CADopener system. You will instantly be able to open and use the data. You do not even have to tell the customer your secret! They will just think that suddenly got much better with CAD. Let CADopener help you take back control of CAD files in your company. All members of your team can use and view the CAD data, even people without any CAD experience. Then you can send readable files to other job shops you will be working with; assemblers, platers, etc.

Here's how to do it: Just fill-out an RFQ, select the file type, input your email address as the recipient and upload the file through CADopener's secure File Send module. You will then be invited to log-in and download the file through CADopener's File Receive module. Our CADopener Viewer allows immediate access of this data. (Just like Adobe Acrobat^TM allows access to pdf files.)

CADopener is a universal solution that works with 2D & 3D files from: Pro/Engineer ^TM, AutoCAD ^TM, SolidWorks ^TM, Catia ^TM, Unigraphics ^TM, SDRC ^TM, & virtually all others. See the File types that CADopener supports.

You will be able to open and use CAD files more quickly and more efficiently with CADopener. We provide for external AND internal communication of readable CAD data. Now all team members can see that new design, at the same time.

Benefits to you:

• A universal solution for virtually all CAD files.
• No need to request specific file types from customers.
• No more waiting for overnight mail.
• No more hiring outside sources to open CAD files.
• No more lengthy download sessions.
• No more un-useable CAD files.
• No more wasted time.