Archive for July, 2010
The purpose of a design automation system is to control different aspects, or parameters, of your CAD models. These could be dimensions, features, component instances, and more. Creating a truly powerful and profitable automation requires a good number of parameters. Keeping track of these parameters can get tricky, so some CAD model organization techniques are in order. Continue Reading
Many developers struggle with the use of 32-bit and 64-bit address spaces. In a nutshell, 32-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 64-bit address spaces and 64-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 32-bit address spaces. Web applications are no different. As a result, special attention needs to be paid to the requirements of web applications running on 64-bit servers. Continue Reading
Razorleaf is planning the follow-up to its successful 2009 ENOVIA SmarTeam BOM event, to discuss BOM and configuration management challenges and how ENOVIA SmarTeam can be used in addressing those. Last year’s BOM Summit was jointly driven by Razorleaf, Dassault, and the customers in attendance, and focused on process and methodology rather than tools and technology. Continue Reading
For those administering an ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site replicated environment, there is an age-old problem in diagnosing and re-synchronizing replicated databases when issues occur. This process has always been tedious and manual. Whether you have two sites in neighboring cities or multiple sites around the world, database transactions are regularly being replicated, with each site synchronizing with the others. For multiple reasons, a site can become corrupted and sometimes have more, less or even different data than other sites. To identify and resolve these problems, Razorleaf is introducing ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site Diagnostic Services. Continue Reading
As you may know, Aras offers standard Project Management, Quality Planning, and Configuration Management solutions for their Innovator product. What you might not know is that there is also a whole community of other open source solutions and projects that are available to download and add to your Innovator environment. These solutions range from integrations to CATIA, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics to examples of workflow automation. You can find the complete list of solutions by selecting the Projects tab at the top of practically any page on the Aras website. This article will discuss one solution in particular, the CMII Affected Items Wizard with Bulk Change. Continue Reading