Re: Is CAD the right tool for the concept?

If I understand this problem correctly, you can do all of what you
want in AutoCad.

You want an image that can locate data about light fittings and be
displayable on a web page. That is DWF format, which AutoCad produces,
you can add URL's in AutoCad to specific objects or blocks, you can
even do this in 3D and still be web compliant.

AutoCad allows for Image attachment, which you can "send to back" to
use as an underlay.

Information extraction can be done in a number of ways, but the
simplest would be to apply hidden "attributed text" to each light
"block" and extract that thorugh a template.

I don't think you need to go to all the expense and hassle of a fully
programmed solution to this.


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