2D View & Compare Features

Adept delivers a comprehensive 2D viewing solution with support for the latest versions of major 2D CAD formats and a variety of functions that allow users of all levels to easily open, view, interrogate and print complex CAD drawings, without requiring the authoring tools that were used to create them.

View 2D Drawings

• Use Adept to view files created by the latest versions of major 2D CAD packages
• Automatic file recognition independent of the file extension
• Easily zoom, pan, rotate, flip, and enhance images
• Customize views with the bird’s eye, magnifying glass, and magnifying window features
• Access CAD drawing information including entity’s unique ID, placements, attributes
• Quickly create thumbnails of files

Interrogate 2D CAD Files

• Obtain precise measurements of 2D files using the snapping function, including distance, angle, area, and arc
• Search through all files including CAD files
• Compare different versions of a drawing and see comparison results in a different window
• Overlay drawings
• Select layers, blocks, XREFs, reference files, and named views
• Extract engineering attributes, Block attributes as well as any entity XData (Extended Object Data) from AutoCAD

Print 2D CAD Files

• Print or plot to any supported printer or plotter
• Print “selected area”
• Print the displayed area, the extent of a drawing, or select a scale
• Print preview; see results before generating actual printout
• Partial print preview; control the location and orientation of a print job before printing
• Print page ranges; via dialog box or via command line option
• Add headers, footers, and watermarks, select what to print: file name, date, time, etc
• Add watermarks tied to Adept file status
• Batch print
• Force to black
• Print markup and markup notes along with documents