AJAX based CAD
AfterCAD Software Inc recently claimed to have introduced the First True AJAX based CAD application.
AfterCAD InSite is a server application that organizes and serves CAD drawings to anyone with a web browser.
InSite serves up 2D and 3D CAD data in the same way that Google Map data is served to users.
The software reads the CAD data and converts it into raster tiles, viewing the drawing (in a Web browser) simply displays the tiles. The need for a multitude of plugins for viewing the CAD data (which could be in a variety of formats) is eliminated and the user can zoom and pan about the image from their Web browser.(I guess this is a good approach for viewing images on mobile phones and other small handheld devices)
The company have applied for a patent on the technology, which is not restricted to CAD data and could be applied to any raster image.
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