Hi,
Here is some news from Denmark (and Germany). The following text is a
shortened and translated version of an announcement made last week by
Danish company A. B. Jensen Maskinfabrik and OpenOffice.org in Denmark.
Best regards,
Finn
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Danish engineer Lars Brandi Jensen and German software developer Simon
Mieth has developed a program extension that makes OpenOffice.org
capable of reading CAD files into an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet and make
automatic calculations on it.
”We didn't choose OpenOffice.org just because it's cheaper,” says Lars
Brandi Jensen who is co-owner of company A.B. Jensen Maskinfabrik A/S.
”OpenOffice.org does of course fullfill the basic needs, but it also
gave us open access to develop the functionality we needed to automatise
the workflow when the production cost of an order is to be calculated”.
The software extension called DXF2CALC makes it possible to import
vector graphic files of type DXF into OpenOffice.org and make
calculations based on the graphic. It's also possible to see an outline
of the drawing directly in OpenOffice.org. With this extension
OpenOffice.org can act as an integrated part of the complete software
setup used by the company to fulfill orders – from first sketch to the
customer invoice.
A. B. Jensen is a production-to-order company in the area of sheet metal
processing. Metal sheets are processed using laser and water beams. The
company uses open source software whereever possible, and the tendency
goes towards using more and more OSS. OpenOffice.org is the software
cornerstone that binds together drawing, calulation and ERP.
DXF2CALC is free for all to use and can be downloaded from this web
address:
http://abj.dk/dxf2calc/
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