Filter Central

I'm pleased to announce that after a lot of trails and tribulations, the DWG IFilter is finally ready

Well it's mid-July and there's been no announcement yet about the downloadable beta ifilter pack, but we are monitoring this website closely for any new information.

The August release date will be here in 2 weeks!  Thank goodness for Microsoft!  It makes you feel good when you adopt the technology of a business (Microsoft) that provides firm release dates to the community, and makes good on those commitments.

This filter pack will help our customers A LOT!

Apart from the long-awaited, fixed OCR Ifilter I wonder whether this filter pack will also include an updated WDS3-compatible JNT Ifilter?

One of the greatest features of the whole Tablet PC thingy (for which MS received raving reviews at least in the German press) was the ability to index and search across handwritten notes with Windows Indexing Service, later Windows Desktop Search. With the advent of WDS3, this does no longer work in Windows XP and this even seems to be true for the brand-new flagship Vista. It's a shame and I'm pretty much disappointed how Microsoft disregards and finally drops cutting-edge technology that significantly contributed to productivity.

One week until August and the filter Pack .MSI .... We can't wait!

I am in process of creating a sharepoint installation for 50000 users.It will be a knowledge management system for a big company.I need to understand as why do i need DWG IFilter when Adode8 and adobe6 filers(as mentioned in the previous entries on this blog).

Can somebody(prefeably not from DWG) please chart down the advantages of DWG ovver adode Ifilter.

Also this 64 bit tag is ralated to new adobe format or is it that new windows server runs on 64 bit technology

I am sorry about my earlier post.

I thought DWG as an IFilter for pdf files.

Didn't knew that it is a autocad file extension.

Please ignore my earlier post.

Hi,

Please feel free to ask me anything related to our DWG IFilter 2007 at my personal email or at ifilter@cadcompany.nl.

Regards, Marco

Any news on the filter pack?

Someone on here said it was released in August, if so where do we download it?

Thanks!

Is there any further news on the Filter Pack? What is it likely to contain? Is it going to be suitable for deployment on MOSS 2007? SPS 2003? SQL 2005? Desktop Search?

We have deployed a product that relies on SQL 2005 Full Text serach for it's indexing capability. Should we still be installing all the individual IFilters we can find (often with the associated app) on our servers, or is it worth waiting to see what is in the pack and how it is deployed?

What's going on with this AutoCAD IFilter (DWGFilt.DLL).  This file and the company that created (CAD & Company) seems to have gone off the map.  Are there any alternatives?  I'm having trouble finding an ifilter than can pull text data from AutoCad files.

Hi Rick;

We at CAD & Company are still around. On top of that, have you seen our new 2007 verstion of the DWG IFilter? It supports the 2008 DWG filetype and it now supports stream filtering as required for both Vista and MOSS. We are working to also add related DWG to SharePoint integration info to the support site.

Please look us up at www.dwgifilter.com - and download your 60 day trial version (desktop and server).

You are welcome to send us any tips to be more visible; we have never gone off the map (as far as I know..)

Ok, thanks for the response.  I think there must be something on my company's firewall that blocks access to the www.dwgifilter.com site.  I tried the link from my personal ip and it works fine.  Thanks a bunch.

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When opening a drawing from within Autocad does the Ifilter cover the attachments of Xrefs and their updates as Xref's are changed.

Regards

Ross

DWG IFilter 2007 does not follow the links into the attached XRefs to add more text to the DWG file. It does list all the names, locations of the XRef referenced files, so you should be able to search all DWGs referencing a particulair XRef.

An IFilter is activated by the search/indexing tool, which can detect file change and decide to re-index the changed files; like WDS, SharePoint. AutoCAD itself does not use the IFilter.

Feel free to send your questions to ifilter@cadcompany.nl

Regards,

Marco van Schagen / CAD & Company / www.dwgifilter.com / ifilter@cadcompany.nl

When is an ocr ifilter going to become available? I have projects on hold because of it.

Own it.  Cannot get support.  Anyone else having this problem?

the website says it has been withdrawn, is there a way to retrieve info from AutoCAD Drawings now?