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Volume 7

Issue 1

January 2013

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© xLM Solutions, LLC. 2013. All rights reserved. www.xlmsolutions.com. Email: [email protected]. Tel: (248) 926-5932.

This newsletter is provided as an information service to xLM clients and other interested individuals. xLM disclaims all responsibility for any damages, losses, costs or expenses incurred by any party from the direct or indirect use of the information contained in this newsletter. You

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Inside this Issue:

.............................................................................................................. 3 About Us

.............................................................................................. 3 What's New @ xLM

...................................................................................... 3 Website and Blog

.......................................................................................... 4 Sandeep Kathe

............................................................................. 4 SolidWorks World 2013

..................................................... 5 EPDM to Enovia V6 Migration Solution

................................................................................................ 5 PLM on the Cloud

.................................................................................................. 6 SmarTeam News

............................................................ 6 V5-62012 (V5R22) Enhancements

.................................... 7 Upcoming Releases and CAD Support Road Map

................................................................................................ 9 SolidWorks EPDM

...................................................................... 9 EPDM 2013 Enhancements

.................................................................. 9 EPDM 2013 SolidWorks Tasks

................................................................................ 10 EPDM CAD Support

........................................................................................................ 12 ENOVIA V6

............................................................. 12 Enovia V6 2013x Enhancements

..................................................................................... 13 Feedback & Contact Us

............................................................................................... 14 Contact Us

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About Us

Welcome to another issue of the xLM Newsletter! If you are unfamiliar

with us, here is what xLM Solutions is, and what we can do for you.

The xLM team consists of experienced and exceptional software consulting and system

integration professionals. We have extensive knowledge in Product, Data, Lifecycle

systems; as well as other enterprise software solutions. Our clients span a wide variety

of industries, all seeking solutions to a common challenge: to effectively and efficiently

manage proprietary, classified or otherwise sensitive and valuable data. To address

this challenge, we provide our clients with quality end-to-end Lifecycle Management

services including requirement analysis, solution installation, configuration,

customization, support, and maintenance.

We take pride in client attention and satisfaction. We listening carefully to ensure that

your PLM needs are properly met in a timely manner. It is our goal to provide you, our

valuable customer, with quality tools, resources, and innovative solutions for successful

information systems management. Call us and let us show you how our solutions can

meet your needs and challenges!

What's New @ xLM

Website and Blog

We are happy to announce a new xLM web site. This web site

reflects a more modernized look and feel. We have added search capabilities to facilitate the user’s accessing information and

improved the download section. Our download section is a good reference site for finding sample code for common customizations requested by users, old conference presentations on interesting topics around PLM and legacy newsletters. We are also very excited to have a new Blog associated with the website. We will be blogging on interesting topics in the PLM industry and specific technical topics around the PLM products we consult on. We encourage you to visit our blog and interact with

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our posts. xLM has a presence on Facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to join these sites. This will be a convenient way for you to receive notification of our latest blog or news from xLM:

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Sandeep Kathe

We are very excited to announce that Sandeep Kathe is now working with xLM. Sandeep is a Senior Enovia V6 consultant / Solution Architect with over 10 years’ experience implementing and customizing Enovia V6 / Matrix One. He also has experience in various Enovia V6 Centrals ranging from Engineering and Design Central to Project Management and Supply Chain Central. Sandeep has a broad diversified industry background having provided services to customers in the apparel industry, the medical device industry, automotive industry and the discrete manufacturing industry among others. Sandeep’s project experience revolves around solution architecture, upgrades, installation, customization and data migration. If you have consulting needs around Enovia V6 or merely some general questions or if would like to see a demo of the Enovia V6 solution, feel free to contact us as we are here to assist with your needs.

SolidWorks World 2013

XLM will be attending, presenting and exhibiting at

SolidWorks World 2013 at the Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Orlando FL. We will be presenting on two topics:

Exploring EPDM Tasks - Working with and Developing Tasks in EPDM This presentation will explore EDPM Task functionality and how it can be configured and modified for specific user requirements. It will discuss what is involved in developing your own custom task. The presenter will walk through an actual example of developing a task and provide sample code.

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Different Customization Approaches and Options for Enterprise PDM “Can I really do that in EPDM?” This presentation will discuss different customizations that can be done with EPDM such as developing executables (exe) and Add-Ins. The presentation will discuss how to develop, test and implement your own customizations. We will also have a booth/kiosk in the Partner Pavilion at location #1144-A. If you are attending we encourage you to stop by.

EPDM to Enovia V6 Migration Solution

In addition to our SmarTeam to EPDM Migration solution, per

feedback from our community, we have started to work on an

EPDM to Enovia V6 Migration tool. The tool will migrate all

designated EPDM data into V6 with high efficiency, minimal

system downtime, and exceptional accuracy.

We are building the tool to be highly configurable, supporting options such as file

renaming, state mappings and it can be expanded to handle any unique migration

requirements. We look forward to adding this tool to our library of other migration tools.

Give us a call and let us tell you more about the tool and how it may solve your

SmarTeam to V6 migration challenge efficiently.

PLM on the Cloud

Have you considered running your PLM/PDM system on the cloud? Some pros of running applications on the cloud are no hardware cost and minimal maintenance cost. You do not need to worry about any hardware or software backups and upgrades. The key aspect you need to understand is that you have less control of your intellectual property (files) as they are being stored outside of your company’s infrastructure to be hosted elsewhere. There are PLM systems today that actually run on the cloud such as solutions from Arena or Autodesk PLM 360 and the CRM company Sales Force have been very successful in this approach. However, Dassault / SolidWorks is not currently offering a fully functional PLM solution on the Cloud. xLM solutions has partnered with EpiGrid to provide the EPDM PLM solution over the cloud. EpiGrid is offering a hybrid cloud model for running EPDM. In other words, they are hosting all the EPDM’s back end servers (database and archive

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server), with the EPDM client (EPDM View) local on the user’s computer. This model brings the power of EPDM to company’s who do not have the infrastructure, IT department or desire to manage and maintain an EPDM server. At the end of the day you get your own EPDM environment managed in the cloud. Some key features of EpiGrid are:

Fast, mobile access enables collaboration without boundaries. EpiGrid’s optimized environment allows for secure global access anytime and anywhere—even through a 4G hotspot.

Advanced security for complete data protection. The EpiGrid data center is protected by armed guards 24/7 and features biometric entry points, redundant firewalls, Cisco ASA security appliances and Cisco intrusion prevention system, and has a minimum VPN encryption of AES128.

Unmatched flexibility and scalability facilitates affordable custom solutions. An EpiGrid implementation starts with the basics but can grow to accommodate any need, which lowers costs, shortens the implementation time frame and allows for smart growth. Since the solution supports a variety of platforms including SolidWorks, PROe/Windchill and others, any company can benefit from our optimized solution.

Turn-key IT, engineering process and EPDM support and training designed to maximize productivity and collaboration potential. EpiGrid provides post-implementation support in the form of training sessions and documentation that explains a clients’ unique vault architecture in detail and can be used as a reference when questions arise. Help desk support and on-site consultation services are also available.

If you feel EPDM is the right solution for you, but the cost to implement and manage it is too high, EpiGrid should be the solution you are looking for. Please contact xLM Solutions for more information on EpiGrid.

SmarTeam News

V5-62012 (V5R22) Enhancements

As you may have noticed, Dassault has changed how new V5 releases are named. The new name signifies that Catia V5 data can be interchangeable with Catia V6 data. This means you can take a Catia V6 2012 file and load into V5-62012 (V5R22) and have many of the CAD features still available to use. Likewise you can take a V5-62012 (V5R22) file and load into V6. It should be noted, there is a conversion process you need to go through to move the file from V6 to V5 or vice versa. In addition to the name change the following enhancements have been added to

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SmarTeam V5-62012 (V5R22)

Support for many of the latest CAD software. See CAD software support below

The ability to export data to multiple excel sheets, where the max export rows per

sheet is configurable per a configuration setting

In Web editor, ability to perform a Replace with Selected Revision on any level of

object in the lifecycle window.

Password protected session, which will prevent the running of unauthorized

scripts that connect to SmarTeam and could bypass the configured security

model of SmarTeam.

Upcoming Releases and CAD Support Road Map1

CAD Version SmarTeam Version Viewer Version

AutoCAD 2013 64bit V5-6R2013 from GA Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

AutoCAD 2012 32bit V5-6R2012 from SP1 V5R21 from SP2 Oracle AutoVue 20.0.1

AutoCAD 2012 64bit V5-6R2012 from SP2 V5R21 from SP2 Oracle AutoVue 20.0.1

AutoCAD 2011 32bit

V5-6R2012 from GA V5R21 from GA V5R20 from SP4 Oracle AutoVue 20.0.1

AutoCAD 2011 64bit


Inventor 2013 64bit V5-6R2013 from GA Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Inventor 2012 32bit V5-6R2012 from SP1 V5R21 from SP2 Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Inventor 2012 64bit V5-6R2012 from SP1 V5R21 from SP3 Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Inventor 2011 32bit


1 Road map information provided by Dassault Systèmes as of October 2012 and is subject to change

without prior notice

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Inventor 2011 64bit


Solid Edge ST4 32bit

V5-6R2013 from GA V5-6R2012 from SP4 V5R21 from SP4 Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Solid Edge ST4 64bit

V5-6R2013 from GA V5-6R2012 from SP4 V5R21 from SP4 Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Solid Edge ST3 32bit V5-6R2012 from GA V5R21 from GA Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Solid Edge ST3 64bit V5-6R2012 from GA V5R21 from GA Oracle AutoVue 20.2.0

Solid Edge ST2 32bit V5R20 from SP1 Oracle AutoVue 20.0.1

Solid Edge ST2 64bit V5R20 from SP2 Oracle AutoVue 20.0.1

SolidWorks 2013 64 bit V5-6R2013 from GA eDrawings 2013

SolidWorks 2012 32 bit

V5-6R2012 from SP1 V5R21 from SP2 eDrawings 2012


V5-6R2012 from SP1 V5R21 from SP2 eDrawings 2012


V5R20 from SP4 V5R21 from GA V5-6R2012 from GA eDrawings 2011


V5R20 from SP4 V5R21 from GA V5-6R2012 from GA eDrawings 2011

Notes:

SmarTeam always supports two previous and two post version of Catia.

V5-6R2012 is equivalent to V5R22 and V5-V62013 is equivalent to V5R23

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding CAD support for

previous releases and service packs.

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SolidWorks EPDM

EPDM 2013 Enhancements

The following are new enhancements for EPDM 2013

Delayed State Notification – If a file is at a state for over a certain period of

time a notification can be configured to be sent

Parallel Workflow Transitions – The ability to have multiple users to execute a

transition before the file is moved to a new state

Improved Workflow Editor – This will allow easier navigation when editing large

workflows

Bill of Materials, Contains and Where Used Tab Improvements – the controls

in the tabs are easier to use and occupies less space. The functionality is the

same

Close SolidWorks Files on Check In – When checking in files from SolidWorks

you can have EPDM close the file after the check in is completed

Notification Editor Update – The Notification Editor has been updated to make

it easier to create and modify notifications

Quantity Specification for Manually Created File References – The ability to

specify a quantity when performing a paste as reference

User Information Pop-up – When mousing over a user name in EPDM, a pop

up window appears with the user’s details

Version Free Variables – The ability to create variables that can be edited

without having to check out and increment the version of the file

Feel free to contact xLM Solutions to get more information on these enhancements and / or how to enable/configure them in your environment.

EPDM 2013 SolidWorks Tasks

SolidWorks 2013 is now using VBA 7 as their scripting / macro language (in the past it was VBA 6). Any EPDM task that was making use of a SolidWorks Macro such as the out of the box tasks of Covert or Print will need to edit the task in the Advanced Scripting Options Section and change the code after the Dim statements at the top of the script to the following: #If VBA7 Then

Private Declare PtrSafe Function SHCreateDirectoryEx Lib "shell32"

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Alias "SHCreateDirectoryExA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal pszPath As String,

ByVal psa As Any) As Long

Private Declare PtrSafe Function PathIsRelative Lib "shlwapi.dll" Alias

"PathIsRelativeA" (ByVal pszPath As String) As Long

#Else

Private Declare Function SHCreateDirectoryEx Lib "shell32" Alias

"SHCreateDirectoryExA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal pszPath As String, ByVal

psa As Any) As Long

Private Declare Function PathIsRelative Lib "shlwapi.dll" Alias

"PathIsRelativeA" (ByVal pszPath As String) As Long

#End If If you need any assistance in performing such an update or with tasks in general do not hesitate to contact us.

EPDM CAD Support2

CAD Vendor - Version Enterprise PDM 2011 Enterprise PDM 2012 Enterprise PDM 2013

File Support Add-In

Support File Support

Add-In Support

File Support Add-In

Support

SolidWorks 2006 Yes No Yes No Yes No



SolidWorks 2009 Yes Yes Yes No Yes No

SolidWorks 2010 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

SolidWorks 2011 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

SolidWorks 2012 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes

SolidWorks 2013 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes

PTC Pro/ENGINEER 2001 No No No No No No

PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire

No No No No No No

PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0

No No No No No No


Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

2 EPDM Cad support information is subject to change without prior notice

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Creo Elements/Pro (R5.0)


AutoCAD 2007 Yes Yes (x32) Yes Yes Yes Yes





AutoCAD 2012 Yes Yes (x32) Yes Yes 2013 SP2 2013 SP2

Autodesk Inventor R11 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Autodesk Inventor 2008 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes




Autodesk Inventor 2012 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Autodesk Inventor 2013 No No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Solid Edge V18 Yes (x32) No Yes No Yes No



Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology (V21)

Yes (x32) No Yes No Yes No

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 (V22)

2011 SP2 (x32)

No Yes No Yes No


No No Yes No Yes No


No No Yes (x64) No Yes (x64) No

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ENOVIA V6

Enovia V6 2013x Enhancements

The number of enhancements for Enovia V6 2013x is too many to list here. We have

listed what we feel are the most relevant enhancements to our customer base. As always if you have any specific questions to what is new in Enovia V6 or any general questions or assistance with Enovia V6 feel free to contact us. Enhancements: General

Rich Text Editor - The rich text editor control for use on Webform and other

pages (structure tables) provides basic text formatting. Users can mark text as

bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, superscript, or subscript. In addition,

special characters can be entered.

Spellchecker - 2013x supports integration with a 3rd-party spell checker tool.

The tool must be licensed and installed separately from the ENOVIA server and

applications. When installed, fields or columns defined as text area show a Spell

Check button that opens a window where the user can check the spelling and

grammar, or use a thesaurus.

Grouping Rows - A row grouping tool is added to the toolbar for structure

browser pages. This feature allows the user to better decipher the data by

grouping similar items. With this feature, the user can group the data by up to 3

logical groups.

Consolidated Notifications - Notification emails may be consolidated

periodically into a single email, compared to prior releases that sent individual

emails for each notification. The default interval for accumulating notifications

may be set for each notification type by the applications. The user may override

these settings.

Improved Security through Hiding of Web Session Credentials - The following variables are no longer set in the session during user login: (i) ematrix.user, (ii) ematrix.password, (iii) ematrix.vault Getter/Setter API Methods for Web Session Credentials. The getter/setter API methods for user name, password, and vault, previously available in a web session, are deprecated in the current release. They are targeted for removal in V6R2014x.

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Collaborative Design for SolidWorks:

Performance Optimizations - Performance enhancements have been added to

this release of ENOVIA Collaborative Design for SolidWorks that improves the

performance when users open large files and perform various edit and save

operations.

My Workspace – A private folder that other cannot see. You can put files

directly into this folder or share files to the folder by using drag and drop or Copy

and Paste Shared. This lets you work directly in My Work without having to

browse for the files.

Auto-naming during File Save Operations - ENOVIA Collaborative Design for

SolidWorks can be configured to create auto-name generators for use in naming

SolidWorks files.

Check In of Derived PDF Files – The ability to configure Designer Central to

automatically create and Check in a PDF file based on the SolidWorks file(s)

being checked in.

Baselines - This lets you capture a design or design structure to use as a

benchmark before making more changes to the design. You can use the History

or Get dialog boxes to retrieve a baselined document.

VPM Collaborative Platform

Working Offline and Offline Mode - You can now work for a limited period of

time without connecting to the ENOVIA V6 server.

Creating New Objects - You can now create objects through an immersive

dialog box and you can administrate some parts of the dialog box.

Managing Report Models and Report Templates - This functionality lets you

create, complete or delete report models or report templates from ENOVIA.

Feedback & Contact Us

We’d love to hear from you! Please send us your thoughts on this newsletter and

future topic ideas that you would like us to cover. Also, send us your interesting V6,

SmarTeam, SolidWorks EPDM, Autodesk and SharePoint experiences and we will

share your story with our readers!

XLM is a consulting company with extensive experiences in delivering innovative

solutions and customizations to solve difficult PLM and IT challenges. It is our goal to

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assist you with your V6, SmarTeam, SolidWorks EPDM, Autodesk, and SharePoint

implementation and to partner with you in developing and deploying the best PLM and

collaboration solutions for your environment. Contact us and let us show you how we

can meet your challenges with our solutions, and make things simpler and better for

you.

Contact Us

To contact us, please visit our web site at:

http://www.xlmsolutions.com

Call:

(248) 926-5932

Or send email to:

[email protected]

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