Join Pulse If you would like to be included in Pulse, please submit your news, press releases, or blog URL to pulse@novedge.com Novedge reserves the right to exclude certain items from Pulse. | Novedge Novedge Pulse of Jeff SweeneyThe Pulse of the Graphics & Design CommunityJun 28, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Off site backupsWhat are you paying for off-site backup storage? You do have off-site storage don’t you? Hey a building is just a building, but you lose your data and it is g-o-n-e! …and aren’t tapes a hassle? Trying to come up with a nice rotation schema, hoping [more...] Oct 3, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Searching for NULLsSometimes in EPDM you want to find all files that do not have a value for a field in the datacard. Your first thought may be to use a datacard to search but that doesn’t work because any fields left blank are not considered in the search criteria. You have to [more...] Aug 25, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Color Selection in DriveWorks SoloI’ve done some research. Even though all pictures from 1903 are in black in white, there were actually eight colors back then! Red, yellow, blue, green, orange, brown, purple, and black. If life would have stayed like that everything would be simper. Sadly someone [more...] Yesterday 3DVision Technologies Blog SolidWorks World AdviceThere are lots of great things about SolidWorks World, but the most important part is the breakout sessions. Tons of topics taught by the authorities in their field. You want to attend them all but at best you’ll be able to attend 8% of them <citation needed>. [more...] Jan 30, 12 3DVision Technologies Blog What am I supposed to ignore?After all of these years of Great Aunt Eleanor giving me the silent treatment, you would think I would be the world expert on being ignored. However it has always been hard for me to remember how SolidWorks Enterprise’s “Ignore permissions in previous states” [more...] Jan 17, 12 3DVision Technologies Blog Assembly Visualization – the search for the missing file propertiesReleasing your drawings to the machine shop with missing information makes a machinist angrier than a baby boomer looking at a teenager that doesn’t have his pants pulled up all the way. As we all know, looking through a large assembly, checking file properties can [more...] Jan 9, 12 3DVision Technologies Blog DSOFile beaten by SolidWorks Document ManagerHey macro lovers! Have to change a lot of SolidWorks file properties, but don't want to your code to have to open each file one at a time? Dec 30, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Tips for your “Configure my product” web siteI’ll never admit this publicly, but when I’m specifying a component for my design, it’s a pretty big deal if a supplier has a nice 3D model for me to drop into my design. If other variable are pretty close, the company with the easiest to use CAD [more...] Dec 21, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog How the Grinches stole the ChristmasEvery year the employees of 3DVision have a competition to see who can design the best Christmas card in SolidWorks. The winner’s image gets to be on the card the company sends out to our friends. I’ve never thought it was fair that the image had to be [more...] Dec 2, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog DriveWorks Headstart Webinars AnnouncedLooking to get a head start in your design/sales configuration? Next week, Driveworks is offering two free classes to help you hit the ground running with either your DriveWorksXpress or DriveWorks Solo projects. The DriveWorksXpress webinar is running on December [more...] Dec 1, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog How Pack and Go Finds DrawingsHave you ever been a room and some n00b clicks the “Include drawings” options from within Pack and Go? “Wait! Wait!” Everyone in the room will shout…but the damage is done. There is nothing anyone can do but roll their eyes and scowl [more...] Nov 23, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Backing up a revisionWhen you are the Data Specialist Man, the world is your stage. Here is a little excerpt from a screen play I am writing for an upcoming movie, tentatively titled: “SolidWorks Enterprise PDM – The Movie” The scene opens with our hero [me] teaching [more...] Nov 18, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog How to search for every file owned by any user in WorkgroupRecently a customer asked me to write a routine to release ownership of every file in his SolidWorks Workgroup PDM vault. I thought finding the files would be rather simple until I realized Workgroup’s PDMWSearchOptions (Workgroup’s API search function) [more...] Nov 16, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog CAD as SaaSThere are five us in my house. We have four, nice computers. Until this week we were a happy family living the dream. This week the youngest had homework and we found ourselves short one computer. The fighting began. So I went to the basement, threw some parts together, [more...] Nov 11, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Adding the vault to your favoritesWindows 7 Tip: Certainly one of your favorite places to be is inside your SolidWorks Enterprise PDM vault. Would you like to prove your love and add the vault to your list of favorites? Drag your blueberry into your favorites list. Make sure the cursor says “Create [more...] Oct 25, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Virtual Data Centers running EPDMVirtual data centers (Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)) can be a very nice option for both small and large companies running SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Here are a few advantages: You can easily adjust the “horsepower” of your server. Start small then [more...] Oct 19, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog A worthless EPDM EnhancementOne of my favorite new SolidWorks Enterprise PDM enhancements is, at least today, practically worthless….this enhancement didn’t even make it into the “What’s New” document. However its potential may make it one of the biggest EPDM enhancements [more...] Oct 12, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog How I lost a bet to GalloA few weeks ago during our weekly “how are we going to take over the world” planning sessions with Lou Gallo, we were brainstorming on ways EPDM could alert you when a file had been in a workflow state more than a certain number of days. I theorized that [more...] Sep 23, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog SolidWorks 2012 RolloutsToday’s the first day of fall. It is the best time of the year. Football and hockey is starting (though I’m not sure hockey season ever ends). Baseball and soccer playoffs are soon starting and the new release of SolidWorks is published. SolidWorks 2012 [more...] Sep 15, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Enterprise’s Label FunctionRemember that kid that was always picked last to be on a kickball team? I think SolidWorks Enterprise’s Label function was that kid. Rodney Dangerfield makes fun of the EPDM’s label function. What good is it? I have seen it used three different ways. First, [more...] Sep 9, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog DriveWorks Colors, Part 37I had no idea that a simple topic of colors could have so many options in DriveWorks. Today I received an email from Glen Smith. (Yes, though you cannot prove it by his blog, he is still alive.) …. To show he still has some sweet automation skills, he made a [more...] Sep 6, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Colors in DriveWorks ProSince my post about color selection in DriveWorks Solo, I’ve had several questions if DriveWorks Pro had better options. It does. With Pro, you have a lot more control over your input forms…you can replace your typical radio buttons, check boxes, etc. with [more...] Aug 30, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Free Weldment Profiles!Back in January, when Jordan Tadic published his cut lumber library for use as weldment profiles, the CAD community went crazy! For a brief period of time there was concern that we may need to get a larger server to help handle the additional page requests. Did you [more...] Aug 23, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog EPDM FundamentalsLooking for a way to convince your manager that you need PDM but you know he only responds to pretty pictures and peppy music? It’s intervention time. Tell him there are doughnuts in the conference room, get Big Larry to stand by the door to keep him inside [more...] Aug 19, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog EDSM, What are SolidWorks User Groups Like?Mail Call! Dear Engineering Data Specialist Man, I have been wondering about attending a SolidWorks user group meeting. What are they like? Peyton M, Indianapolis Indiana. That is a good question Peyton, as a matter of fact I was in your town last night for a user [more...] Aug 12, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog LoadDraftingStandardImagine you received a set of SolidWorks drawings from an outside source. Unfortunately the people who created the drawings didn’t use your drafting standards. [The peasants!] You may be tempted to create a little macro that goes through every one of your settings, [more...] Aug 11, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Can Improve Your ECN ProcessSolidWorks Enterprise PDM’s (EPDM) customized workflows make it rather easy to duplicate many processes within an organization. As an example, a common request I get during implementations is to incorporate a company’s existing Engineering Change Notice (ECN) process [more...] Jul 29, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Copy From Your PreviewA wise man once said: “The fastest way to open a document is to not have to open it in the first place.” When I said that, I meant I want my data fast, if I can skip the step of having to open an application first it’s all good. I just learned today [more...] Jul 25, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Search for Dimensions in EPDMGreat Aunt Eleanor can do many amazing things. She can name and describe all RAID configurations, she can rewire an HDMI connection so her old black and white movies will be black and white again (she curses Ted Turner the entire time) and apparently she is the lead [more...] Jul 20, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Spice up your EPDM web interfaceYou know the default EPDM Web interface? Kinda pretty eh? People all over the world are using it. Yet I still hear complaints: “It’s ActiveX so my users can only use Internet Explorer”, “It’s kind of plain”, “My back hurts”, [more...] Jul 12, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Troubleshooting DriveWorksXpress EquationsUse Excel as your DriveWorksXpress equation editor. Jun 10, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Eight reasons why DriveWorks is better than pizzaPizza -without a doubt, mankind’s greatest achievement. It doesn’t take a back seat to being on the moon or even those over-hyped pyramids. However, I’ve argued even DriveWorks is better than pizza. Here is why: SolidWorks’ “Pack and [more...] Jun 8, 11 3DVision Technologies Blog Hidden in plain sightHey Windows 7 users, recognize this? Yup, it is our new SolidWorks Enterprise PDM’s tool bar, Pretty ain’t she? The other day I noticed something while looking at an XP machine: That blueberry on the left looks like a button…so I hovered over it [more...] |
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