CAD & Office Integration

In the realm of CAD & Office Integration a new technology has been introduced that will overturn many accepted ideas, both for developer and end-user. Furthermore this "plug and play" CAD technology makes it possible to use older CAD documents and older software in an entirely new context. OLE for Design and Modeling is an enhancement of Microsoft Windows for OLE for high performance CAD/CAM/CAE-software. This work explains how this new program enables users to introduce and manipulate CAD models within regular text-processing and DTP-documents. It shows readers how the program is able to transfer high-end 3D design objects between different systems using easy "drag and drop" operations. It also outlines how this "plug and play" CAD technology makes it possible to use older CAD documents and older software in an ebtierly new context.