This screen is used to view or enter a link to a drawing, photograph,image or .pdf file to be used as an on-line reference for engineering, purchasing, quoting or any other item master usage. It can be an assembly drawing, purchased part specification, spec. control drawing, photograph or any other image or .pdf file linkable to Manex. The image or .pdf file is not stored in Manex. The file in which the image or .pdf file is stored is linked to this screen in Manex and can be maintained without access to Manex.

Header Information: Displays the Part Number, Rev, Class, Type and Description selected in the Summary screen. Displayed on the 2^nd line is the manufacturer information:Mfg. Name, Manufacturer’s Part Number, Marking, Package, Body and Pitch.

Load Picture or PDF document (Buttons): Used to link the Image Space below to a file on the local hard drive or any other location on the network connected to the Manex Server. To Load a Picture, while in the add or edit mode, the LOAD PICTURE button becomes active. Pressing this button prompts the User to enter the location of a picture file created for this particular inventory part.

Files (pdf.; word; jpeg;, etc.) should be stored in a permanent directory on the server (all users need network security access). The user will define the directory and file for each product in this module, but the information will be available elsewhere throughout the manufacturing module.

After defining the location for the document, the document is available for viewing, as displayed

Scroll bars: The bars at the bottom and side of the picture allow viewing of the parts of the image that are outside the window’s display. This allows detail viewing of large drawings.

As soon as you enter the module, Acrobat will load.The user may load a PDF file to the Mfgr Part Spec tab. This allows users access to whole textbooks from within MANEX.PDF files can be drawings, images, CAD files (as printed to a plotter), and multiple pages of mixed text and graphics.Users may also print these PDF files from MANEX.

PDF and Image files:

PDF and Image files used in the MANEX system should be placed in the server, where all users have access to them. These files are used in the Product Data Management, Inventory, Customer and Supplier Contact programs. We suggest that the users create an additional directory, called "Images" under the MANEX System directory on the server. So then under the Main MANEX system directory, there would be the \apps, \dbfs, \images and \reports subdirectory.

If the user is going to make extensive use of the image capability, they may wish to further provide subdirectories under the Image. These might be called "inventory", "PDM", "photos" etc. These files could, in turn, have further subdirectories. For example, under \manex\images\inventory there might be one for each class of part. Or one for make parts and one for buy parts. Under the PDM group could breakdowns by customer.

Such organization will make it much easier to find files when it is time to update them. MANEX can accommodate file path-names up to 100 characters long.

While viewing a PDF document, the user may scan and zoom throughout the document. Items may be copied from it, and the document can be printed from the MANEX program, as long as there is a default printer assigned to the workstation.