Document handling

In CADMATIC eShare, users can switch from the 3D view of an object to a PDF document that contains information about that object, or the other way round—from a link in a document to an object in the 3D view.

• Object-to-document links: CADMATIC design tools can publish to eShare a 3D model where the model objects are linked to documents (drawings) published from the same design project. If documents are obtained from an external data source, eShare can create links to model objects if the indexing function is enabled in the data source configuration, as described in Adapters and indexing. Note that any links that eShare adds to CADMATIC documents are not indexed and thus cannot be used for object-to-document linking.
• Document-to-object links: CADMATIC design tools can publish to eShare documents that are linked to the 3D model published from the same design project. The document viewer of eShare displays these links, and project administrator can customize link highlighting, as described in Link highlighting. If, however, the CADMATIC documents do not contain such links, or documents are obtained from an external data source, in the Document Handling view a project administrator can define rules and patterns that enable eShare to detect text strings and convert them into hyperlinks. When a user opens a document and document handling settings for that document type exist, eShare automatically creates links that the user can click to open the relevant 3D view.

eShare can add links to documents only if the document contains text that can be selected, and if any used fonts that are not standard Windows fonts have been embedded into the document. If you can manually copy–paste text from the document to a text editor, the file should be suitable for eShare.