Live Edit™

Edit CGM Drawings for Tech Pubs, IETMs and Illustrated Parts Catalogs

Live EDIT complete support available for new WebCGM 2.0 profile. Create overlay hotspots, embedded hyperlinks, and link all your drawings together with this standard technology.

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Live Edit toolset includes:

  • Edit CGM - A powerful feature enabling revision of existing CGM's. Edit line and fill colors, change fonts, reposition objects, or delete them.
  • Add hotspots: With Live EDIT, you can quickly add hotspots and enter associated metadata. Simply click and drag rectangle to indicate hotspot, or select group of objects
    to create a hotspot for entire group.
  • Edit Metadata: The metadata "Tree View” window makes it easy to modify hotspot attributes like object id, name(s), embedded links. Hotspot metadata can also be edited
    by clicking with Control-key on hotpots to bring up metadata properties window.
  • Tabbed and Split Views: Tabs permit several files to be opened in a single session and then click tabs to quickly navigate between images. Split views further enable multiple files to be viewed simultaneously for quick comparison and revision.
  • Auto Hotspotter Option: Now Larson's powerful Auto Hotspotter technology is available as a fully integrated option. Simply select a file and click “Start AutoHotspotter” and a file is scanned for all vector and raster text. Text to be hot-spotted is identified according to a set of parameters, like alpha, numeric only, or a regex text filter. The CGM file will be hot-spotted on screen, and attributes will be automatically generated which can be edited, if necessary, for the final results.
  • Layout Tools: Align, Crop, Group, Un-Group, Flip, Rotate, Arrange, Crop, Copy/Paste, Snap to Grid, Zoom
  • Mark-up Tools: Text, Bezier Curves, Circles, Ellipses, Rectangles, Polygons, Transparency, Lines, Hotspot, True Type Fonts, Line and Fill Attributes


Live Edit is a cost-effective solution for any technical publication group.

Technical Specifications


Input:  Vector: CGM, AI, EPS, PDF, DWG, DXF 
            Raster: CALS, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
Output: CGM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
License types: Desktop or Network

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