June 2012 Blog Posts (24)

A few weeks ago we announced support for SpaceClaim data types.  If you use SpaceClaim, you can now use Inforbix to help you find, aggregate, access, reuse, and share SpaceClaim data types from multiple locations in your company...read…

Chaos Group has released an update for V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino. The update features improvements and fixes that are designed to make …

Clayoo is an advanced modeling application with the ability to effortlessly create any form of an efficient and accurate however complex. Ideal for designers, architects, jewelers, engineers, artists, or anyone who needs to create complex organic shapes.

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Bill of Materials are the meats and potatoes of every manufacturing company.  To have Bill of Material information available is essential to manage product development processes. To have drawing Bill of Materials is especially important to feed other processes with initial product structure. Keeping track of drawing BOMs can be a big challenge.  On today’s post, I want to show you how easy it is to extract a drawing bill of materials from any CAD drawing in your company and…

The Work In Progress (WIP Version 2012.6.8.0) of the Scan&Solve Scripting plugin for Rhinoceros is now available to owners of Academic and Commercial licenses of…

Inforbix attended SolidEdge University (SEU) this week in Nashville, TN.  Upon my morning arrival to the hotel, I was greeted by many stars:

And despite the steamy June Nashville climate outside, thanks to the very efficient A/C, temps inside the hotel were kept…

Our good friend Paul Gaboury has just released his new ZBrush book, ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques. For those who have seen any of our…

Data has been with us forever.  Our life and work is all about data such as documents, projects, dates, personal files, plans, and so on. With the growing pace of life and business we are generating ever increasing amounts of data everyday. Our lives today are driven by data and all things digital more so than ever before.  For companies,…

Create project reports on the fly using data sourced from anywhere in your company.  Here's how. 

Cadwax Ring Wizard V3.94 for Rhino is now available. This update includes a new 3D texture tool and scale by weight.



A free demo is available here (open to previous users who wish to trial the plugin…

This week Inforbix will be attending the SemTech conference in San Francisco.  In addition, I’ll be given an opportunity to give a presentation on how semantic technology is applied in manufacturing. Navigate here to read a synopsis of what I will present.  On today’s post, I want to…

Massachusetts is well known as a place where many engineering and manufacturing software companies were started.  In a recent Boston Globe article, Rt. 128 was named as a center of manufacturing software development, navigate here to read the article.  Mass is well on it’s way for also taking a leadership role in the important topic of big data.  I recently read about…

Design, Engineering and Manufacturing are all becoming extremely collaborative.  These are the types of environment where a single person cannot do much on their own, they need to work with others. People need to work with their customers on requirements; collaborate within design teams with different…

How many data types and sources exist in your company?  If you work for a typical manufacturing company there are many data types and sources in use.  For example, data can be found within CAD documents, in assemblies, in Excel, in PDFs, in PDM and PLM systems, and even in ERP and CRM systems. Moreover, regardless how data is organized in a company, chances are the product you need for a given task or project is fragmented across different sources and locations.  Some of it will be…

We promised to continuously deliver new apps to help you get more out of your product data . Today, I’m going to share a sneak preview of an app that will soon be available.  Have a look at a recent blog post I wrote about finding file duplicates, …

In anticipation for the upcoming UEFA Euro 2012, Next Limit Technologies is gearing up for their UEFA EURO 2012 Promotion! Here's how it works:

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