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About: Jonathan Scott
Jonathan is a PLM evangelist and solution architect promoting the use of product lifecycle management (PLM) concepts and methodologies for discrete manufacturers. As a former project manager and technical consultant on multiple PLM platforms and CAD platforms including Dassault, Autodesk, and PTC toolsets, Jonathan’s strengths include vision and strategy planning, as well as detailed solution development. Jonathan also speaks at industry conferences like SolidWorks World, COE, PLM Summit, ENOVIA Americas Customer Conference, BOM Summit, daratechPLANT and Boeing’s/Northrop Grumman’s GPDIS.
Aras EPLM, a new commercial offering from Aras, is available now for managing SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid Edge, and Pro/Engineer data in an enterprise PLM solution. The EPLM tool provides pre-configured PLM functionality on top of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) to give new and existing EPDM users an ability to scale up to PLM quickly while retaining best-in-class CAD data management. 
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CADFIT inspects SolidWorks file relationships to analyze your CAD data’s health.
CADFIT (CAD File Inspection Tool) is a free tool for discovering problems with the integrity of SolidWorks relational data. Once the tool is run and the raw data is uploaded to the web, a free summary report is provided as feedback on the quality of the inspected data. Additional, more detailed reports are available for a fee so that users can begin correcting problems in the CAD data set.
CADFIT offers engineers an excellent way to easily understand the quality of their CAD data, and to target repairs to their data set. This is particularly useful to those preparing for a PDM data load. Those seeking to justify better CAD data management processes/tools will also find the tool invaluable as it quantifies the scale of existing problems.
CADFIT cycles through file sets to gather information about the files and the external references reported by the files. The information is loaded into a database for data extraction in a variety of formats.
Standard reporting aspects include:
- All parents with missing child references
- All parents with child references that are not within the intended load set
- Duplicate files – same name, same content
- Duplicate files – same name, different content
Additional detailed reporting areas:
- File counts by SolidWorks version
- File age bracket reports
- Alternate locations for missing files
- Files with reported locations on client machines
- Custom property usage summary
Free
Summary Report
$2,500
Detailed Report
SolidWorks 95 through SolidWorks 2011
Direct from Razorleaf, or through your SolidWorks reseller
Razorleaf’s DriveWorks Backup Tool helps protect your company’s investment in DriveWorks by providing backup and restore for all critical DriveWorks files.
You’ve put a lot of work into your design automation system – are you sure it’s safe? If design automation was important enough for your company to invest time and money in DriveWorks, you should take steps to be sure that all of that valuable content is secure. Continue Reading
RevPack for Admins can intelligently set the EPDM revision on thousands of files at once, saving hours of time and effort.
There is no easy answer for manually setting advanced revision values for large volumes of files in EPDM. Razorleaf’s RevPack for Admins solves this tricky problem, letting administrators take charge of their SolidWorks Enterprise PDM revisions by jumping ahead several revisions in the revision sequence using the revision value stored in a file’s custom properties. And as great as this sounds for data migrations and legacy data loads, it can be equally helpful for cross-system collaboration, too.
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RevPack for Users saves time by putting revision letter assignment in users’ hands, while maintaining order through detailed access control.
There just aren’t simple answers for dealing with revisions set outside of Enterprise PDM, or for manually setting advanced revision values. Razorleaf’s EPDM RevPack for Users solves these tricky problems, letting users take charge of their EPDM revisions by manually bumping revisions, or jumping ahead several revisions in the revision sequence.
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SmarTeam Transform Tool lets admins change class for PDM objects to repair problems, migrate data, and enforce standards.
Traditionally, users learning SmarTeam are always told, “once you create an object, you can’t change its class.” But that doesn’t mean that the need for class changing doesn’t come up regularly. Razorleaf’s SmarTeam Transform Tool addresses the need to change classes by allowing administrators and power users to select objects and switch them over to a new class within the SmarTeam class hierarchy. This saves time and energy and prevents the errors associated with deleting and recreating objects in the system.
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Office2PDM lets Microsoft Office users access the power of Enterprise PDM without leaving their native interface, making PDM adoption more likely.
Office2PDM is an add-in for Microsoft Office that brings the document management functions of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM directly into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Office2PDM is a SolidWorks Partner Product and supports version 2003 and later of key Microsoft Office applications. Continue Reading
