For ~100$ you can purchase autocad readers. There are some freebies online that will do it too....
They open the .dwg etc files and allow you to print out and view some even will let you resave it to pdf -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wyatt Schill Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 1:48 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] New buildings on campus Depending on the project, smaller cabling contractors may not have anyone trained in autocad and not want to pay someone to make as-builts in autocad, or they don't want to take the time to input all the communication jacks and numbering. Just put auto-cad as-builts in your specs as a deliverable and make it mandatory. If you are just talking about general building drawings, Architects are working for you and should absolutely provide all plans in PDF or Autocad, whichever you request. Our facilities department will always get the plans in autocad, then we in IT get handed either autocad or PDF, but a request to the architect has always yielded whichever we asked for. (The builders/contractors may not want to pass them directly to you, but through a proper chain of communication you should be able to request them, they should always be a deliverable of the project) -wyatt Wyatt Schill Senior Network Engineer CCNP-R&S : CCNA-Security Green River College 12401 SE 320th St. Auburn, WA 98092 wsch...@greenriver.edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Todd Hall Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 6:35 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] New buildings on campus When we have new buildings being constructed I am provided plans in pdf format. I'm told that the Architect/builders won't share the Autocad files. Are any of you able to get Autocad files? If so, who provides them? Do you have to justify what they are for? It would be a huge time saver for designing the wireless networks in ESS. One more thing. I'd like to thank everybody for participating in this list. It has been a fantastic resource over the years. -- Todd Hall Sr. Network Analyst Information Technology Services Mississippi State University ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
