VueLink for Matrix provides powerful viewing and markup tools to speed and facilitate the design and review process directly within your Matrix environment, both locally and remotely.

VueLink provides an interface between the Matrix PDM system and AutoVue Professional. VueLink works with the Matrix client-server and web interfaces (through Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer).

Markups/Annotations/Redlines are automatically saved in the vault and are available to other users to edit or view, depending on their document access level.

VueLink and AutoVue fully support the special handling of CAD documents created in AutoCAD or MicroStation which may contain Xrefs or Reference files. CAD, Raster, and Hybrid files are also fully supported.

VueLink and AutoVue Professional for Matrix provide users the following functionality - locally, or remotely via a web browser:

• Securely view documents in your business objects without editing them.
• Support for over 450 Engineering and Business documents formats
• View multiple markup files
• Create markups/redlines/annotations using a rich set of annotation tools.
• Create hyperlink connections to other related documents.
• Consolidate several markup files (perhaps from different reviewers) into one markup file
• Control Regular, Read only, Master, and Consolidated markup access to markup files.
• Markups are associated with a specific revision of a documents. Markups may be migrated to new revisions if needed.
• Graphically compare different revisions of Engineering drawings.
• Add information contained in your chosen fields from Matrix as print Watermarks, Header or Footers.
• Sign markups using the CIC electronic signature package (CIC product required).

VueLink for Matrix also provides users the basis to add further powerful functionality to Matrix installation through the use of custom designed tools.

Custom designed tools offer many possibilities. Users can create intelligent custom stamps that query for document information to include in a markup.

Custom applications can be created to extract relevant information from an AutoCAD or MicroStation file, and automatically link it with information (such as a Bill of Materials) available in the Matrix vault. This brings the concept of intelligent drawings to a new level.

These features are also available from within your Web Browser using AutoVue Client-Server Edition.