I'm a little strapped for time so this will be brief.
Our Smarteam VAR presented the Connexus software to us to provide the
printing service:
http://www.inflow-tech.com/connexus.html
We have either do an API call or user exist when we create the shop packet
(I don't recall off-hand which) that FTP's a control file to the server
that houses Conexus. Conexus then uses the item number in the control
files and additional parameters in the software to look through the
Smarteam database and pull the current release of all documents associated
with that part number. Since we index all documents (drawings, work
instructions, material spec, etc.) by part we will print all related
documents on a printer shortly after shop packets are released.
Marc Rohde
IT Manager
Pentair Filtration, Inc. & Everpure, LLC
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Please don't go offline!! I am interested in how you are doing this
also. We have Solidworks--no document management and no Conexus--I was
going to search also. This would be a huge time saver for us.
Thanks,
Teresa Biby
Virginia Panel Corporation
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Hello Marc,
We have the same 3 systems, but what is Conexus? I Googled it, but too
many unrelated hits.
Much of the drawing related programming we have is modified batches & VB
from
our previous Oracle based Applicon system . Now we have SmartTeam on MS
SQL
and the fellow who implemented SmarTeam retired! So it has stagnated a
bit.
Any chance I could contact you off-line for a brain-drain?
Are you planning to attend Inforum in Sept in Vegas?
Thanks!
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We run Solidworks and Smarteam (a document management software that
integrates with Solidworks) so we bought a package called Conexus that
accepts FTP control files that contain the item numbers we need to print
and the Intel server manages the print.
Although our solution is specific to our document management systems you
should be able to write some VBScript to operate on a similar
architecture
for simple Autocad.
Our shop packet prints from Mapics and needs to get collated with all of
the related engineering documents that auto print the latest release.
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Hello all,
I once again find myself in need of support from the learned members of
this august body. (Oops, been watching CSPAN again!) Seriously, I
would
like to have my MAPICS shop packets also print a copy of the blueprints
automatically. We are on XA/R6 (sigh), using EPDM. I know there's an
attachment file for each item that I can use to load the file names of
the
blueprints, plus the obvious Engineering Drawing Number in the ITMRVA
record. We'd have to use the attachment file, since we frequently have
multiple prints for each item.
Surely someone out there has done this already - it's far too obvious.
I
have wanted to try this for a long time, but until recently we used a
stone-age (1994) DOS-based CAD package and there would be no chance of
the
i5 printing THAT! If anyone is doing this, I would greatly appreciate
any
suggestions as to how it was done. I was thinking of changing the shop
packet print program (we had to customize ours to conform to union
contract
requirements, so I already own that code), to close the print file at
the
end of each order, call a print command for the blueprint(s) for the end
item (we use AutoDesk/Inventor), then go to the next order and reopen
the
print file. That will create a gazillion and two print files during MRP
Order Release and slow down the processing, but I can deal with that.
Help?
Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA 15501
midrange.com
