Hi,
Our organization has a fair sized IT department with very able
programmers. They have a lot of experience in using Pro/Toolkit and
have written some large sized applications to connect Pro/Engineer to
Metaphase.
We are currently employing Intralink 3.3, but we'll need to move to Intralink 8.0 or PDMLink 8.0 in the future.
PDMLink is rather complicated to use, doesn't recognize all the
features of Pro/Engineer (it has problems with family tables,
inheritence features, external copy geometries etc.) and has a great
lot of PDM features that we don't actually need.
We have absolutely no intention to move our PDM system to Windchill, so
most of the PDMLink abilities will be lost on us and we are going to
pay very dearly for them (difficulty of usage, management, porting from
Intralink etc...)
The worst of it is that we do need to rewrite all our home brewed
programs to port information from Pro/Engineer to Metaphase. PDMLink
doesn't help us a bit with that
So we are toying with the idea of writing a CAD data manager of our own
that will have only the functionality we need, based on the already
existing home made programs of ours. We have all the knowledge
necessary to undertake such a project, but before we plunge into it,
I'd appreciate your ideas about it. We might have overlooked some
caveats....
Thanks in advance for your remarks
Our organization has a fair sized IT department with very able
programmers. They have a lot of experience in using Pro/Toolkit and
have written some large sized applications to connect Pro/Engineer to
Metaphase.
We are currently employing Intralink 3.3, but we'll need to move to Intralink 8.0 or PDMLink 8.0 in the future.
PDMLink is rather complicated to use, doesn't recognize all the
features of Pro/Engineer (it has problems with family tables,
inheritence features, external copy geometries etc.) and has a great
lot of PDM features that we don't actually need.
We have absolutely no intention to move our PDM system to Windchill, so
most of the PDMLink abilities will be lost on us and we are going to
pay very dearly for them (difficulty of usage, management, porting from
Intralink etc...)
The worst of it is that we do need to rewrite all our home brewed
programs to port information from Pro/Engineer to Metaphase. PDMLink
doesn't help us a bit with that
So we are toying with the idea of writing a CAD data manager of our own
that will have only the functionality we need, based on the already
existing home made programs of ours. We have all the knowledge
necessary to undertake such a project, but before we plunge into it,
I'd appreciate your ideas about it. We might have overlooked some
caveats....
Thanks in advance for your remarks