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About: Steve Dunn
Steve is a PLM consultant with a focus on developing enterprise-level solutions and implementing SmarTeam for single and multi-sites. Steve has extensive experience with .NET solutions (primarily C#; Windows apps and ASP.NET), SQL Server, Oracle, and Enovia SmarTeam. At the beginning of his career, Steve worked for seven years in manufacturing before he began working in an IT role to help develop business solutions for engineering. Steve holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA.
For those of you running an Oracle database as your repository for SmarTeam, check out this helpful utility. The SmarTeam Database Oracle General Report tool is a collection of plain text files containing batch commands and SQL statements that can generate a detailed HTML report of key Oracle statuses and settings. The tool is available from Dassault’s support site by searching for QA00000002533. Continue Reading
For those of you planning to move to Oracle 11g with SmarTeam V5R20, watch out for this one. With 11g, Oracle has introduced a feature called Deferred Segment Creation. Generally speaking, this is a nice feature because it saves space in exports and eliminates unneeded storage allocation in many databases. It can create problems with ENOVIA SmarTeam, however. Continue Reading
For any who create or interact with Bills of Material, you know that there are often structures in the design that should be consolidated in the BOM – phantoms (sometimes also called “ghost” assemblies). There are also sometimes components, and even entire structures, that should not be represented at all in the BOM. To help accommodate these needs, ENOVIA SmarTeam’s BOM functionality provides flexibility when it comes to displaying and rolling up items in a BOM structure. In particular, the InBOM attribute and related functionality is worth diving into for addressing these needs. Continue Reading
We are sometimes asked the questions, “Should I upgrade RepliWeb in our ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site / Multi-Vault environment?” and “If so, how should I do the upgrade?” These are reasonable questions since RepliWeb’s RDS product is currently on release 3.1.1 and the version historically provided with ENOVIA SmarTeam has been 2.6 (for the last couple of years). Continue Reading
Global collaboration can be tricky for a number of reasons. For instance, when developing an application that is shared between users in two or more time zones, an important item to consider is the accuracy of time and date calculations. When making decisions based on dates and times, differences in time zones can substantially affect the integrity of data. This article describes some practices meant to limit your risk. Continue Reading
When planning any software development project, whether it is a point or enterprise solution, there are several key questions to answer before a line of code is written. How will you know it’ll work on the required operating systems? How can you give the developers a standard development environment without buying or configuring hardware? Once developed, how can it be tested? Virtualization is a simple yet effective way for addressing these critical concerns related to software development environments. Continue Reading
One of the often overlooked features of VMWare Workstation is the Virtual Disk Mapping utility. Available through the standard VMware Workstation GUI, the tool maps a Windows drive letter to a virtual disk used in a VM. Mapping a virtual disk can be done much quicker and easier than launching the VM to access the files on the virtual machine’s disks. This functionality ships with VMware Workstation for Windows; other tools are available for Linux users, but won’t be covered in this article. Continue Reading