Good morning Steve, An "All-in-one" viewer, a great concept, but have not yet seen it realized. So compromise is in order and that of course is controlled by your needs. I have seen programs that import many different data types very quickly and with minimal user help. Others do a draw-to-flash conversion in no time at all. And some are great for data modifications. There are several other features that you may desire and you probably can find a program that can do any single or only a few of the tasks you have to do. I am interested to learn which one you finally settle on and why you choose it. (more later off line.) Regards, Ahne Oosterhof 503-641-9428 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steve Gregory Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 13:04 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] All-in-one file viewers... Hi All! I was asked by the guys in our bid department if there was a all-in-one viewer out there that could read all kinds of different file formats e.g.: different gerber formats, autocad, Pro-E, etc. etc... It doesn't have to be free, but they would like to find something that does it all. Right now, we will get bid packages that have files in them that we can't read. We will do a search and find something that will have a 30-day trial, and download that to be able to read the stuff that was sent to us. Obviously, we don't want to have to buy all these different software packages just to view things, so our bid guys asked me to ask the list if there was some whiz bang viewer out there that can look at everything, and also how everybody else copes with this issue? Thanks a bunch! -Steve Gregory- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------