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Data, bibliographic and document management software
News Release from: Synergis Software | Subject: Adept
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2008
Software unites AutoCAD and Soldworks
Allows Guntert and Zimmerman to search for a part and see the relationships between a SolidWorks assembly and its AutoCAD components.
Guntert and Zimmerman Construction Division is using Adept document management software to increase productivity and facilitate collaborative engineering G and Z chose Adept for its outstanding ability to manage, control and share both very large SolidWorks files and 2D AutoCAD design files
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Synergis Software's 18 years experience in supporting document management also factored heavily into G and Z's selection of Adept.
"The company's technical expertise, US-based sales and support, single focus on document management and flexible implementation plan narrowed our choice to Synergis Software", says Jerry Dahlinger, Vice President of Engineering, Guntert and Zimmerman Construction Division.
"We required a document management solution that could handle both AutoCAD and SolidWorks information", said Dahlinger.
"We have used AutoCAD for years and continue to use it to maintain drawings of older products".
"If we do a major modification in SolidWorks, then we have a hybrid product - a combination of SolidWorks and AutoCAD drawings".
"Adept allows us to search for a part and see the relationships between a SolidWorks assembly and its AutoCAD components".
"That way we can use our legacy information and still use new 3D tools".
"We couldn't go on using SolidWorks without a data management system that supported its interdependent file structure", says Dahlinger.
"We had lots of problems when we had several SolidWorks users working on the same design project, with different overlapping areas of the machine".
"Our productivity was very low and it finally became a crisis".
G and Z also uses Adept in manufacturing and sales to guarantee the latest revision of a part is made and ordered.
There are 25 people in the Engineering Department, the Shop Floor and Sales using 11 concurrent Adept desktop client licences and six Adept Explorer web-based client licences.
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