My IT department has ask me to post this for you guys and see what you think.  We are a large component manufacture and have been in the business of making parts since the early 1950's.  Needless to say we have thousands of drawings in our system.  Back in the early 1990's there was a major over haul to convert all our hard line drawings into .dwg files so 95% of our drawings are in .dwg format.  in the last 5 years or so we have implimented solidworks and starting using .slddrw files.  These drawing file are all located on a networked drive.  The probelm we have is getting the drawings to our machine shops and metal foundrys.  The business system we are using is Genero and it uses a central data base to translate inforamtion for all of us to use.  Every depart uses the same bussiness system Genero.  In Genero all our drawings number are tied to items numbers in a very large data base.  Currently our system is set up so that when a work order is issued Gerero goes out finds the drawing and it is printed on the back of the work order.  The probelm is that Genero can't read .dwg or .slddrw files in their native format.  We in the engineering depart have to make an image file of the drawing that Genero can read.  For auto cad it is a .plt file and for solidworks it is a .jpg file.  This image file is a hassel becasue everytime we make new drawing or reveisons to old drawings we have to update the image file and make sure the native drawing file matches the image file.  Our IT deparment is wanting to know if there is a plugin that Genero can use to automaticaly convert drawing files into image files so we don't have to maintain two types of drawing files for the same drawing.  It would also help clean up some hard drive space ( each jpg is appoximately 10MB X several thousand drawings).  Any ideas would be much appriciated.

Thanks

Kyle