Actify DesignShare™ enables workgroups to quickly and securely track, collaborate on, and manage CAD data, plus all related documents, enterprise-wide. Easily deployed, it unites the Actify Suite of Products with the document management, sharing, and collaboration capabilities built into every Microsoft SharePoint™managed environment.
Actify DesignShare Benefits Overview:
- Provides a platform for implementing innovation and lean initiatives
- Allows access to any piece of product information by anyone, anywhere regardless of role
- Eliminates collaboration cycles
- Reduces collaboration expenses & rework expense caused by out-of-date information
The DesignShare solution performs a range of sophisticated digital design communications tasks such as creating team worksites that can be further customized to meet job- or department-specific needs. Intuitive dashboards enable you to view, annotate, and upload project information, as well as automatically convert—on demand or in batch mode—all major 2D and 3D native CAD data formats to Actify’s system-neutral .3D format.
Unlike product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, Actify DesignShare is affordable, easy to work with, and equally well-suited for use by small teams or large enterprises.If your company designs or manufactures mechanical products, and wants to both facilitate CAD data collaboration and control the communications process and information —Actify DesignShare is the answer.
"With the release of Actify DesignShare, organizations are better able to communicate and collaborate on product information with internal and external teams allowing them to stay more competitive with a much lower total cost of ownership than other methods."
Bill Gerould,
Industry Director
Worldwide Discrete Manufacturing
Microsoft Corp
FEATURES
Find
One of the most difficult tasks manufacturing information workers are confronted with is locating the information that is required to complete the task at hand. Using DesignShare, this becomes much easier as information can now be organized in whatever way, using whatever data structure, is relevant to the people in the organization. Metadata that is exposed as a result of the DesignShare process of converting 2D and 3D, such as part numbers, geometrical attributes, etc. can be used in search queries to locate relevant product information. Search scope can be as limited or expansive as the customer desires.
Use
DesignShare centralizes and allows the automation of publishing from native CAD files to Actify’s system neutral .3D. With DesignShare’s Viewer, Browser, and Uploader web parts, users have the ability to view, measure, and markup 2D and 3D data directly within SharePoint. Furthermore, DesignShare, when used with Actify’s SpinFire Professional and SpinFire for Microsoft Office, enables the authoring of rich SpinFire and Office documents with static or interactive product information.
Share
Through the managed, server-based SharePoint environment, DesignShare is able to provide secure, easy-to-use, and customizable browser-based worksites that allow users to manage all relevant documents, not just .3D. By having a centralized location for all product information, users can access and upload data from anywhere, anytime.
Manage
DesignShare has the ability to control all information pertinent to a project or task. With the DesignShare web parts, SharePoint users can manage collaboration processes that require access to all product information including 2D and 3D data. Users can manage document ownership, associations, and ensure that all data is versioned, secured and reflects the systems of records
Web Parts for Accessing SharePoint Platform
- DesignShare Viewer - Open, view, cross-section, demension, pan, zoom, and rotate CAD files; add markups and notes; navigate the 3D model assembly tree.
- DesignShare Browser - Browse your enterprise's parts library to quickly find and access specific project or CAD data. Then manage the automated publishing process: view the queue, reorder file priorities, pause, cancel, and more.
- DesignShare Uploader - Upload files for batch processing according to the parameters you select.
- DesignShare Publisher - Automatically convert all CAD data to Actify's .3D format and centrally manage the process.
