Neutral formats like PDF, PDF/A or TIFF/G4 can be stored for the long-term and viewed at any location. It is often the case that these formats are not made public, and are changing constantly with new releases of the application, making long-term readability almost impossible. Proprietary application data does not currently fulfill these requirements, and is not an acceptable archiving format.
To meet Security requirements of long-term archiving, document formats are required that are not editable and can be viewed long-term.
The SOLIDWORKS application converter provides an automatic, batch-enabled, conversion from SOLIDWORKS drawings into neutral data formats including TIFF, PDF, or PDF/A (digital paper).