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Exciting Changes in ShareVis Licensing

ShareVis has recently made some significant and exciting changes in their licensing model.  Up to this point, ShareVis’ licensing model was very basic; organizations deploying ShareVis purchased one enterprise license per SharePoint Web Front End.  ShareVis now has licensing based on a rental model and based on a usage modelFull Article >

 

DriveWorks 7: The Wait is Over!

Currently available as a Technology Preview to a limited audience, DriveWorks 7 is slated for General Availability to the entire DriveWorks community by the end of February, 2010. Scratch that, DriveWorks 7 was released Friday, February 26th and is now generally available. The new version includes a redesigned architecture that provides a new lightning-fast rules engine, customizable specification flow, enhanced web capabilities, and full support for interactive updates within SolidWorks sessions.  Full Article >

 

SolidWorks Hotfix for SmarTeam Users

There is a performance problem with a specific element of the SolidWorks API in SolidWorks 2009 SP4.1 and SP5.0 that can cause problems with the ENOVIA SmarTeam integration for SolidWorks.  If you’re using the stated version of SolidWorks with SmarTeam, consider downloading and applying the relevant hotfix for SolidWorks.  Full Article >

 

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Free Virtualization Tools

It’s not uncommon for large organizations to have embraced virtualization, both in the testing environment and for production use.  Many vendors have offerings that make it easier for smaller organizations, or individuals, to take advantage of virtualization too.  In fact, all the major vendors offer free or personal versions of their flagship products.  And you know a software technology has gone mainstream when both Microsoft (with Hyper-V) and Oracle (with VirtualBox) have offerings in the space. Read Article >

 

3DVIA Sync and Automated Deliverables

A common problem many companies face is the ability to have deliverable documents, like web images, catalogs, and technical illustrations, mirror their final product.  Because of the dynamic nature of design and engineering, it is often a struggle to keep this downstream output up-to-date without utilizing some type of automation. Using 3DVIA Sync ensures changes that have been made in the upstream CAD systems are reflected in the downstream content created in 3DVIA Composer.  Read Article >

 

Basics of Aras Mark-up Language and NASH

Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH.  Read Article >

 

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Razorleaf Helps AMF Bowling Score a Strike with SmarTeam

logo-qubica-amf2 Generations of children have stood in wonder on their first trip to a bowling alley, mesmerized by the smooth motion of the automatic pinsetters and the sight of brightly colored balls spinning up the ball return. The technology that makes a bowling alley operate isn’t magic – it just seems that way.

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Behind the scenes AMF Bowling, a division of QubicaAMF , engineers a complex and carefully timed dance of moving parts to be both rugged and precise. AMF designs and fabricates most of the parts it uses and assembles everything from the ball returns to the laminates for the flooring. The pinspotter, for example, includes more than 3,800 different parts, all of which must be engineered to work smoothly without clashing.

Managing such complexity isn’t easy, as Brian Williamson, CAD-PDM Administrator and design engineer with QubicaAMF Worldwide, will be the first to admit. “When I got here four years ago, I think I spent more time trying to locate the designs for the parts in our machines than I did designing new ones,” he says. “CAD files were scattered all over the network and on local drives with very little chance of being found again so they could be reused.”
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