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The purpose of a design automation system is to control different aspects, or parameters, of your CAD models. These could be dimensions, features, component instances, and more. Creating a truly powerful and profitable automation requires a good number of parameters. Keeping track of these parameters can get tricky, so some CAD model organization techniques are in order. Continue Reading
For those ENOVIA SmarTeam customers with scripts in their environment (just about everyone out there), there is a limitation on naming scripts that is worth noting. This probably doesn’t impact customers using out-of-the-box scripts, but it is nonetheless worth checking. It appears that somewhere in the evolution of V5R19 (it is not clear at what service pack – it may have been the GA release), Script Maintenance started to impose a 31-character limit for the names of scripts. The problem is relatively easy to resolve (assuming that you don’t have scripts calling other scripts), but does require attention; scripts will fail to run and users will receive the error message “can’t find specified entry point.” Continue Reading
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
Your typical DriveWorks user interface (UI) is, unfortunately, pretty boring. Administrators will occasionally throw in a logo, but other than that, the UI remains a jumble of controls or a collection of columns. With some advance planning and experience, more can be done with UIs to increase the effectiveness of the tool. For instance, using VISIBLE rules to control the appearance of controls or parts of forms can allow for simplified and advanced versions of DriveWorks UIs. Here are a number of other tips and tricks related to the DriveWorks user interface. Continue Reading
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (SolidWorks EPDM) is not a difficult system to upgrade, but any IT system requires preparation and planning to upgrade effectively. Since we do this all the time for our clients, we thought it made sense to share our SolidWorks EPDM upgrade best practices to save you time and effort in planning your next upgrade. What follows is a 12 step checklist, with explanations, of the steps to follow in upgrading SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Continue Reading
Although electronic workflow tools are great at automating and optimizing business processes, sometimes you just need a static copy of the finished workflow form. In some cases, the static copy is for public distribution while the actual process lives in a more restricted area. Fortunately, ShareVis makes creating a static copy of a workflow form a simple process, and one which you have some control over. Continue Reading
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 Registry. Continue Reading
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