Archive for May, 2009
Many SolidWorks users prefer, or even consider it to be a best practice, that the SolidWorks file name be the same as their company’s part/item number. There are advantages and disadvantages to this that would make good material for a separate newsletter article. However, what if your company has decided that it does not care what the SolidWorks file name is and to have SmarTeam automatically generate the file name. There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach as well. This article will cover an approach to displaying the part/item number in the SolidWorks Feature Manager Tree (FMT) rather than the automatic file name given by SmarTeam.
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A CATIA Graphic Representation (CGR) is a handy way to handle the interchange of CATIA graphics data between software systems. A CGR can contain graphical information like polygons and bodies, metadata and assembly structure but is not a reasonable substitute for standard data exchange formats like STEP, Parasolid or ACIS.
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The new generation of web browsers is faster with more features and is more “people” focused than browsers of the past. With the increase of social networking sites on the web, such as twitter, facebook and myspace, browsers such as Flock are integrating the user’s favorite social sites directly into the browser with easy, sometimes one click access. Google Chrome allows users to create desktop shortcuts to web applications, it has a built in element inspector for web developers and it includes a process management utility that allows a user to see what websites are using the most memory or CPU time. The point is that each web browser has its “Claim to fame” as far as features are concerned and a user only needs to do a little research to find what is right for him.
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The new generation of web browsers is faster with more features and is more “people” focused than browsers of the past. With the increase of social networking sites on the web, such as twitter, facebook and myspace, browsers such as Flock are integrating the user’s favorite social sites directly into the browser with easy, sometimes one click access. Google Chrome allows users to create desktop shortcuts to web applications, it has a built in element inspector for web developers and it includes a process management utility that allows a user to see what websites are using the most memory or CPU time. The point is that each web browser has its “Claim to fame” as far as features are concerned and a user only needs to do a little research to find what is right for him.
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Enterprise PDM (EPDM) supports more than just your SolidWorks CAD platform. EPDM can handle any file type/extension inside the vault, but there are also Plug Ins and Add Ins for several popular CAD platforms. These integrations to other CAD platforms allow EPDM to successfully manage part, assembly, and drawing relationships as well as Xrefs in the case of AutoCAD. Below you will find a list of supported CAD platforms and integrations.
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Longview Advisors recently held their 2009 Collaboration & Interoperability Conference in Estes Park, Colorado, wrapping up the event on May 20th. Derek Neiding of Razorleaf co-presented with Wes Shimanek of Intel and Don Richardson of Microsoft at the event’s Post-Conference Workshop on Mobility Technology. Each presented a topic relevant to the session’s mobility theme: enabling engineers to collaborate regardless of platform or presence. Continue Reading
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software can help businesses of any size proactively manage their mission-critical intellectual property and control their product definitions to help them avoid problems and lost design cycle time due to unmanageable design and change processes. This whitepaper takes a closer look at PLM and product data management (PDM) technology, explaining each of the applications used to define and manage the data associated with products, from concept through retirement.
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