Autodesk Integrations

Overview

SmartDesk

A seamlessly integrated, affordable, out-of-the-box, Windows based drawing and document managementtool for users of AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop

SmartDeskSmarTeam Corporation’s Integration to Autodesk Products

Autodesk Applications

•AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002

Commitment to Autodesk Products Line !

•Mechanical Desktop 4,5,6

•Inventor 4

New integrations to MDT and AutoCad

Improved (simplified) Life Cycle Dialogs

BOM Editor

Support ‘OutOfProcess’ mechanism

Access to Local File explorer (all Autodesk integrations)

Bulk Loading (all Autodesk integrations)

Plot Mechanism Support

Support embedded images (AutoCad 2000 and higher versions)

Automatic File Naming on save (all Autodesk integrations)

Comprehensive documentation

Release 4.0 - Highlights

SmartInventor

Standard Parts

Parallel Documents/Items trees

Data Management Tree (DMT)

Over the internet Collaboration

And much more …

Commitment to the Autodesk Product Line:AutoCad 2000, 2000i, 2002

Mechanical Desktop 4, 5,6

Inventor 3,4 and 5 (TBA)

Fully embedded into Autodesk productsDocument, Drawing, and file management –ties together all product related informationRevision controlEasy search and documents retrieval

By any attribute (revision, description, part number etc.)“Where Used” and “Composed of” queries

Full Xref supportFull assembly support (external & local parts)Bi-directional Title Block updatingEmbedded viewer (over 200 formats)

SmartDesk Features

SmartDesk - Seamlessly Integrated

• Revision Control– Full life cycle management– Automatically maintains design modifications

log– Automatically generates revision numbers– Controlled access to files– Ability to view different revisions of the same

design– Management of Minor and Major revisions– Quick find and easy retrieval of legacy designs– Facilitate concurrent engineering

SmartDesk User Benefits (I)

Time spent on design not on data management Significantly reduces error Productivity Improvement

• Full X-Ref Support and Assembly Management– Understands the hierarchical structure of

assemblies– Understands the relationships between different

designs– Ability to extract Bills of Material info.

Automatically– Easy “Where Used” and “Composed of” queries

SmartDesk User Benefits (II)

Prevents design contradictions and collisionsKnowing in advance what is going to be affected by a changeProductivity Improvement

SmartDeskUnderstands the Hierarchical Structure of Assemblies

• Bi-directional Title Block updating– Ability to map to any custom Title Block– Automatically fills-in & update Title Block fields– Keeps TB information consistent and up-to-date– TB Information is filled-in once – eliminate the need to re-type

information – TB Information can be viewed even without opening the

design file– TB information can be shared with any other ERP/MRP

system

SmartDesk User Benefits (III)

Keeps system integrityReduces administrative time & typing errorsShare TB information with other groupsImproves Productivity

SmartDesk User Benefits (IV)

Simple and easy to usePlugs into the CAD environment via the “in process” methodologyWindows standard user interfaceIntuitive and friendly

Keeps focus on design - not on data managementReduction of design errors Share information and collaborate with team members

The “In Process” Methodology

• Work within the application…

• Staying in the design environment while managing the data

• The management simply becomes part of the normal design process.

• All the key operations such as Search, Locate, and Life Cycle/Revision control have been intuitively designed and are located inside the design application

• No need to spend extra time re-keying data

•Improves Product Innovation and Team Collaboration

•Reducing Concept creation to Product realizationCycle Times

•Streamlines and automates work processes and procedures

•Automatically tracks all of the vast amounts of information required to design, manufacture, and maintain products

•Adheres to market standards (ISO, MIL, etc.)

SmartDesk Organizational Benefits

Rapidly implemented

Ready to use out-of-the-box

Quick load of legacy data

Scalability – a clear and simple migration path to an enterprise information management solution – SmarTeam

Bridging islands of information among teams within the enterprise in a secured way

SmartDesk Organizational Benefits (cont.)

SmarTeam Family of ProductsFor product data management within larger

organizations, SmarTeam, SmartFlow,

SmartWeb, and SmarTeam Viewer provide a direct and simple migration path to department and enterprise level applications.

These products are fully scalable, so retraining is not necessary, and you can keep the same database throughout.

SmarTeam revolutionizes the collaborative PDM market with affordable, rapidly implemented,

Windows™ & Web centricnext generation Team cPDM

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