About CADFITCADFIT (CAD File Inspection Tool) is a free tool that organizations using SolidWorks can use to discover problems with the integrity of their 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 surveyed data. Additional reports are also available for a fee. 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. |
FAQsQ: This program runs for a long time. What is it doing? A: CADFIT gathers basic information about all of the files in the target directories such as file type, size, creation date, last modification date, etc. A great deal more detailed information is extracted from SolidWorks file types. Custom properties, the version of SolidWorks in use when the file was last saved and most importantly, external file references are also recorded for SolidWorks file type. Q: The program needs access to all of my files. Does it open or alter them? A: None of the files are opened in their respective editing applications (not even in read-only mode). The files are not altered in any way. You can rest assured knowing that your dataset has not been modified. |
Testimonials
Those people that work in a non-PDM environment really have no idea what can happen to their network files. Employees make duplicate files and put them on hard drives, move files around on the network. Without a tool like CADFIT, how would you know?” James Perron |
- Migrate SolidWorks files with all references intact
- Generate reports that display missing child references and duplicate file information
- Custom reporting for all your CAD databases
“What an eye opener! CADFIT showed us how bad our networks really were. We had no idea of the thousands of duplicate and missing files in our system. We actually thought we were handling the data well. The CADFIT tool was the justification we needed for enterprise PDM.