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Internet as an Information Link
- The use of Internet techniques as part of CAD environment offers a shortcut to the diffusion of project information. Previously expensive and complicated animation techniques that were difficult to reproduce outside the office environment, can be seen now through any Internet enabled system, directly form the CAD producer. Internet browsers with the appropriate CAD plug-ins can be used as dumb terminals to consult project information, without the need of a CAD station (and program) just for displaying images. Despite the existence of CAD viewers, these programs do not allow an easy information exchange, being superceded in this aspect by any World Wide Web Browser.
- If we elaborate the fact that today an average standalone personal computer can run easily any standard CAD application and being Internet enabled at the same time , is easy to imagine an increasingly connected office environment. CAD hardware requirements have been shrinked by more demanding graphic and video applications (also part of the design realm). In that way the concept of multitasking is passing from a concept barely applicable to big expensive systems to the normal desktop environment.
- In this way, a new scheme for the implementation of CAD applications can be thought. Main applications and sensitive data can reside on a main server, and the specific CAD modules can run temporarly on CAD terminals, finally, requested data can be send and inquired from Internet terminals in different places (building sites,consultants offices,user's offices.)
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