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

Searching Tip: Context

Are you ready to take your search capabilities to the next level?  If you’re like many professionals today, you’re inundated by information at work, and sifting your way through it can be challenging.  You probably already use Google, Bing, or some other search engine for the Internet.  And maybe you even use the search tools built into Microsoft Windows, built into your applications, or built into your smartphone.  But if you’re not using this tip on search context, give it a read and see how it can help you sift through that growing mountain of information you deal with every day.   Continue Reading

ENOVIA SmarTeam Excel Add-in Problems

ENOVIA SmarTeam has a number of integrations to third party software applications like CAD, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.  Occasionally, after installing SmarTeam Editor with the Microsoft Excel Add-in or PLMDB Add-in for Excel, the add-ins may not appear when loading Microsoft Excel.  This can happen to either add-in, or both at the same time.  Luckily, one solution to this problem is relatively simple – although it does involve the Windows RegistryContinue Reading

Create SharePoint Lists From Excel

SharePoint plus Excel

Excel can be very helpful in cases where you need to create a custom list in SharePoint and want to populate that list quickly, and perhaps using some advanced logic.  If you have an Excel workbook with your data in it there is no need to manually create a SharePoint list and manually enter this data.  You can port this data over to SharePoint from right inside of Excel.  Continue Reading

Data Clean-up Superhero: Excel

Cleaning SuperheroEveryone knows Microsoft Excel. Well, everyone knows of Excel. Very few people, though, realize that it is a fully functional data tool with over 340 functions ranging from math to text to counting to searching and on and on. Continue Reading

Why You Need SP4.1 for SW2009

SolidWorks LogoSolidWorks Corporation released a minor service pack, 4.1 on August 10th.  A minor release is never a good thing.  If you have an earlier version of SolidWorks software and are having trouble with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office, Windows Vista, or other 64-bit applications, then you need this service pack update.  Continue Reading