Have you ever needed to copy text or a complex hyperlink between two different computers? Of course you have. Depending on how often you do this sort of thing, you might have some creative solutions like using a USB thumbdrive or copying a plain text file across the network. But the folks at cl1p.net are offering a different answer – one that is useful in a number of other situations where thumbdrives and network shares aren’t feasible. Continue Reading
The majority of businesses these days have a need to manage documents in at least one location other than the “main” site. If the documents have any size to them, the vaulting process can be very painful and time consuming, regardless of the PLM system in use. Luckily, most PLM systems, including Aras Innovator, have the ability to house vaults in multiple locations to support such a multi-site environment. This allows for the vaulting operations to be moved local to the user, saving time and money. Continue Reading
If you’ve worked with virtualization long enough, you may have noticed that performance can degrade over time. This phenomenon is related to disk fragmentation, particularly in scenarios where a lot of software installation, removal, and updates are performed. As you might imagine, this is the situation for many test environments and development environments. To recover lost performance capabilities, try defragmenting your virtual machines. 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
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5R20 was released for General Availability (GA) in February, 2010. Service Pack 1 was co-released, so effectively it can be considered part of “what’s new” in V5R20. So what is new with Dassault Systemes’ most prevalent PDM platform? New packaging (installation packaging, not the shipping boxes), new viewer capabilities, enhanced CAD support, specific module feature enhancements, and PLMDB support have all been introduced in this version. All in all, there is nothing revolutionary in this release, but there are a lot of significant improvements.
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Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH. Continue Reading
One of the new tools in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) 2010 is the automated EPDM Task Tool. This tool helps users and system administrators automate a number of things related to Engineering output. With the tool, you can create renditions (alternate format/presentation of content) of SolidWorks Parts, Assemblies, or Drawings. The Task Tool also enables remote printing, and can create these types of output content during EPDM Workflow state changes or from right-click menu options. Continue Reading