ENOVIA V6 Readiness Intro
If you’re like most of Razorleaf’s ENOVIA SmarTeam clients today, you’re past the excitement of the artizone transition, comfortable with the long-term future of your PDM system, but interested to know what ENOVIA V6 will offer and how you might upgrade to it. Leaving the advantages of ENOVIA V6 aside for a moment, let’s dig deeper into how you might upgrade from ENOVIA SmarTeam to ENOVIA V6 and, more to the point, how you might prepare today for an eventual upgrade. Continue Reading
In late April 2010, Aras announced a new open release (9.2) of the Innovator software suite. The new release can be freely downloaded from the 
The Visual Studio Integrated Design Environment (IDE) is highly customizable and can be extended. In fact, it’s possible to automate repetitive and tedious item creation tasks through the use of Item Templates. Consider the insertion of a copyright as the first line in all new class files. Under normal circumstances, this would be a manual task with each new class file created, but Item Templates can automate the process. The steps below outline the procedure for accomplishing just that using Visual Studio 2005. 
Your typical DriveWorks user interface (UI) is, unfortunately, pretty boring. Administrators will occasionally throw in a logo, but other than that, the UI remains a jumble of controls or a collection of columns. With some advance planning and experience, more can be done with UIs to increase the effectiveness of the tool. For instance, using VISIBLE rules to control the appearance of controls or parts of forms can allow for simplified and advanced versions of DriveWorks UIs. Here are a number of other tips and tricks related to the DriveWorks user interface. 
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (SolidWorks EPDM) is not a difficult system to upgrade, but any IT system requires preparation and planning to upgrade effectively. Since we do this all the time for our clients, we thought it made sense to share our SolidWorks EPDM upgrade best practices to save you time and effort in planning your next upgrade. What follows is a 12 step checklist, with explanations, of the steps to follow in upgrading SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. 
