Tips 'n tricks related to CAx and PLM software and hardware. Primary posts are about Solid Edge, Insight and Teamcenter data management but there's smatterings of other "stuff" that as a hacker I feel is handy to get your job done. I'm a Siemens PLM Software employee. All opinions posted are my own and do not represent those of my employer. If you are looking for dish commentary, not gonna happen here. This is a technical how-to get stuff done better and faster blog.
February 20, 2012
January 24, 2012
Tuning Microsoft SQL Server for Teamcenter
GTAC Software Field Bulletin SFB-Teamcenter-6464 has some great tweaks for tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with Teamcenter.
January 06, 2012
How to Apply Revision Display Filters in Teamcenter
Saw the following question come across the LinkedIn forums regarding how to filter for only the latest Item Revision in Teamcenter:
December 21, 2011
Using Solid Edge Quicksheets to Predefine Drawing Layouts
The Cadconsult PLM guys over in New Zealand have published a great article on using Solid Edge Quicksheets to predefine and standardize (standardise) your Solid Edge drawing layouts. Go check it out:
Quicksheets – Standardizing your drawings
December 15, 2011
Optimizing Insight and Teamcenter SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment
SQL Server Pro has a great post by Denny Cherry with seven
tips for optimizing SQL Server on the vSphere and Hyper-V virtual platforms. Given that many Insight and Teamcenter customers
are running SQL Server databases for their PLM backbone this article is a must
read:
December 12, 2011
Slow Solid Edge ST4 Startup Times
With ST4 MP2 and earlier an issue has been discovered that can result in
slow Solid Edge startup times. Specifically
the issue revolves around the Most Recently used (MRU) list.
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