Archive for July, 2008

API development and customization is all about automating repetitive tasks and I am sometimes amazed at how much I have been able to do over the years to make end users’ daily tasks easier to accomplish.  One place I have fallen short, however, is automating my own repetitive development tasks.  That is why decided to create a Visual Studio Template to automate the creation of PDMWorks Enterprise Addins.  This is similar to the SolidWorks Software Development Kit offered by SolidWorks for developing SolidWorks Addins.

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Over the past few months I have received numerous emails from folks using the original PDMWE Number Generator.  It is such a simple little app that I was pleasantly surprised at all of the nice feedback people gave me regarding it.  To show my appreciation, I have modified the Number Generator to allow it to work with multiple serial number sequences ”on the fly.” 

 You have always had the ability to set up muliple serial number generators in PDMWorks Enterprise but now the user can decide at File/Folder creation time which serial number to use.  An anticipated use case with this improved version of the tools is for users who have multiple categories of parts with numbers being assigned by category.  Note:  Even though the functionality has been expanded, the tool is still very easy to install and configure. 

So how does it work?

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