Razorleaf is pleased to announce our recent relationship with Rand Worldwide, a global provider of technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements. Rand Worldwide selected Razorleaf to provide Rand’s Dassault Systèmes customers with ongoing phone support for ENOVIA SmarTeam, CATIA, and other Dassault products. Rand’s customers began transitioning to Razorleaf’s support […]
PTC Introduces Creo
If you’re a 3D CAD user, you no doubt recognize the name PTC, or at the very least, Pro/ENGINEER. But with the recent announcement by PTC of their new product line, Creo, the Pro/E brand’s days have become numbered. Creo is a new line of products based on technology from PTC’s three main design and […]
SmarTeam SolidWorks 2011 Certification
Wow. For those of you in the SolidWorks – SmarTeam communities, be prepared to be pleasantly surprised if you haven’t read about this elsewhere already. With the release of SolidWorks 2011 early last week, ENOVIA SmarTeam provided the fastest certification they have ever provided for a new version of SolidWorks. In less than one week, […]
CATIA V5 UUID Uniqueness
Given that UUID stands for Universal Unique Identifier, it may seem strange to talk about uniqueness in this context. But it comes up more often than users might like inside of CATIA V5. It isn’t simple to determine the UUID of a CATIA V5 file, nor is it easy to manipulate the value. With a little […]
SolidWorks EPDM 2011 Launched
For avid SolidWorks users, this certainly isn’t the first announcement related to the launch of SolidWorks 2011. But as you might expect, this article is more focused on the latest release of Enterprise PDM than on the release of SolidWorks itself. It appears that EPDM 2011 will be another solid release of SolidWorks’ flagship PDM solution, […]
Razorleaf at COE 2010 Aero Workshop
Razorleaf will be speaking at COE 2010 Aerospace & Defense Workshop on October 12, 2010. Jonathan Scott from Razorleaf will deliver “Cleaning Up CATIA V5 Data for PDM or V6” in support of one of Razorleaf’s partners, Adaptive Corporation. This hands-on session is extremely timely given CATIA V5 users’ need to get their data under management in anticipation […]
Dassault Publishes V6R2011
Dassault Systemes delivered the first real release of V6 back in 2009 with V6R2010. Since that time, the PLM software provider has been releasing new iterations of V6 twice a year. The most recent release, V6R2011, shows increasing maturity in a number of areas such that parts of the product which were only “preliminary” in […]
Organizing CAD Models for Design Automation
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 […]
Dassault Announces Beta of DraftSight
DraftSight, a new 2D drafting program from Dassault Systemes, is available in public beta for free, and to enterprises for a small fee (to access extended features and support). It can be downloaded here. The tool is meant to offer all of the same functionality in AutoCAD, and to read and author data in DWG […]
SolidWorks Event Wrappers
The SolidWorks API (Application Programming Interface) is immensely powerful. In fact, if something is doable within SolidWorks, the chances are good that there is a corresponding API. As a result, automation possibilities are endless. The SolidWorks API documentation is outstanding and, in most cases, provides exceptional detail. However, one area that is somewhat tricky to […]
