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Alcove9 has announced its latest application connector for intranet search, the a9 AppConnect for AutoCAD. The software is completely integrated within AutoCAD, allowing users to quickly search all of their structured and unstructured databases right from their CAD session.
Other capabilities include full text search, which allows users to find drawings based on their content, regardless of application or folder location; identifying reference file relationships (X-Ref) without having to open up drawings (both in children and where used); and click and search capability, allowing users to select a file, and search for all other documents, drawings and/or parts containing that file name.
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