CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 October 2012
Product News
Razorleaf Launches CADFIT 3.0
Razorleaf, a consulting service provider for engineering and manufacturing tools, announces the latest release of CADFIT. CADFIT is a free utility that organizations using SolidWorks computer-aided design (CAD) software can use to understand patterns in, and discover problems with, their relational data. Once the tool is run, a free summary report is generated and provided to customers as feedback on the quality of their data. Reports indicate missing child file references, duplicate file information, SolidWorks versions, usage of Configurations, and more. A more detailed report with information on each instance of a problem is available for a charge.
CADFIT offers an easy way to assess the quality of CAD data and to target repairs to the data set. The capabilities of CADFIT are particularly useful to those considering PDM. By quantifying the scale of existing problems in the CAD data, CADFIT can help justify the need for, and use of, better CAD data management processes and tools.
“I wish I had known about CADFIT earlier on because I think it could have helped keep us out of the weeds with our SolidWorks data,” said Karl Cressotti, director of R&D at Retina Systems. “CADFIT highlighted some problems in our data set, but overall it confirmed the approach we were taking to manage our SolidWorks files.”
Razorleaf’s CAD File Inspection Tool (CADFIT) is also helpful to those preparing to load their SolidWorks files into a PDM system. The old saying, “garbage in, garbage out,” is particularly relevant with PDM. CADFIT allows companies to identify problems with their SolidWorks data before loading it into PDM, thus maximizing the value of their PDM investment.
“What an eye opener,” said James Perron, systems administrator at OYSTAR Packaging Technologies. “We had no idea of the thousands of duplicate and missing files in our system. Without a tool like CADFIT, how would you know?”
In this release of CADFIT, Razorleaf has addressed one of users’ major concerns about having their CAD data inspected: security. CADFIT 3.0 runs without any connections to the Internet and reports are generated locally, without intervention by Razorleaf.
For more information, visit: http://www.razorleaf.com/cadfit/
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