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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.

DriveWorks Backup Tool

Razorleaf’s DriveWorks Backup Tool helps protect your company’s investment in DriveWorks by providing backup and restore for all critical DriveWorks files.

DriveWorks Backup ToolYou’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

EPDM RevPack for Admins

RevPack for Admins can intelligently set the EPDM revision on thousands of files at once, saving hours of time and effort.

Rev Set Concept
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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EPDM RevPack for Users

RevPack for Users saves time by putting revision letter assignment in users’ hands, while maintaining order through detailed access control.

Rev Jump Concept
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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ENOVIA SmarTeam Transform Tool

SmarTeam Transform Tool lets admins change class for PDM objects to repair problems, migrate data, and enforce standards.

Razorleaf SmarTeam Transform Tool LogoTraditionally, 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

Office2PDM lets Microsoft Office users access the power of Enterprise PDM without leaving their native interface, making PDM adoption more likely.

 

Office2PDM LogoOffice2PDM 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

Configuring EPDM Dashboard in Office2PDM

EPDM Dashboard is a very interesting part of the Office2PDM package – it provides a quick look into the status of files in your SolidWorks Enterprise PDM vault.  Despite its obvious usefulness, configuring the tool requires a few pieces of information, and following a couple of simple steps.  Here are the basics of getting EPDM Dashboard for Office2PDM setup and running. Continue Reading

Razorleaf Announces Office2PDM Acquisition

Razorleaf is proud to announce the acquisition of Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard from Extensible CAD.  Office2PDM offers a seamless integration between Microsoft Office products and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM).  EPDM Dashboard provides real-time access to Enterprise PDM vaults, right from Microsoft Outlook, for monitoring the status of documents and workflows.  More details about these tools are available on Razorleaf’s utilities page for Office2PDM and a separate dedicated micrositeContinue Reading