What's new 2007 - Table of Contents

[20070524][ENG]

Enhancements

Administration Tools

The new Administrative Control Panel of DBWorks
Copy or move documents across projects in a simple interface

Autocad 2007 enabled dwg viewer

Vectorial DWG Viewer with Autocad 2007 support

BOM

Assignment of the Physical Quantity directly from the Create a new Bom Item dialog
Create New BOM Item default directory
New option in the Order BOM Position Numbers dialog
New option in the Open/Save→Save dialog

Browser behavior

Full Preview Tab
Default ORDER BY fields

Configurations

LAST_MODIFIED_DATE and LAST_MODIFIED_BY alignment at check-in

Cutlist

NO_BOM attribute set automatically for part-generated weldment insertions

Data Input Form

Improved interface for Not Null Fields
$(CONFIGURATION_DESCRIPTION) macro for ID and DESCRIPTION
$LINKED_FIELD macro
Improved .LST files with .SQL commands

Database Management

All the _DATE fields are now managed as HMS dates
Delete Records: check for any active referencing parent documents

DBWARM

New option for avoiding to show all the projects when not assigned to any project
DBWArm: short-cut bar items visibility depending on the DBWArm Group
Editor: new right for the Transfer Ownership functionality
Editor: synchronization with the DBW_PROJECT_USER table
Editor: script fired when a user is added/modified/removed

Event Log

CHANGE_CURRENT_PROJECT event

File Attachments

Introduction
DBW_ATTACHMENTS table structure
Add an attachment … functionality
Script OnCustomQueryTab_Attachments.LST
Preview of the attachments
RMB commands for the attachments
"As built" ADW-generated attachments

Inventor

Support for Inventor 2008
Previous revisions visualization available for Assemblies with Inventor 11

Link Mode

Improved fields alignment for new Drawings

Localization

Polish language

Log file

TRACE_CUSTOM_PROPERTIES

Master Drawing Mode

New option: Always create Master Drawing on a new revision
New WorkingSet function for copying the Master Drawings to the clipboard for Copy/Paste operations

MechWorks Standalone Client

Single Window Application
Add Document functionality can register assembly structures
DWG/DXF Batch Plotting
"Draft Quality" eDrawings plotting

Open

New RMB function: Open Part/Assembly Configuration

PDF Layers

Additional parameter for the DBWShell("MDOpen")

Plot

Support for custom SHEET_FORMAT(printer_name).LST when plotting TIF or PDF documents
Multiple sheets plotting with MW Standalone Client

Remote Access

Out-of-date downloaded local copies highlighted in RED color
Ability to download foreign documents in checked-out state
Ability to preview remote documents with the server-side-file-transfer enabled
New option: Always download linked documents
New RMB command: Remote Access→Share/Unshare this Project

Rename/Replace

eDrawings available in the Replace References dialog
Reassign project on Rename

Revisions

New options page Revisions→Outputs
New command @GETNEXTFROMSCRIPT
Revisions Containers
Tree file comparison Tool

Scripting

.NET scripts
Add-in
Database BLOB-type fields support
New DBWShell commands FileZip, FileUnZip
New DBWShell commands SetPrimaryDatabaseTables, ResetPrimaryDatabaseTables
New DBWShell command EMail
New DBWShell command ShowDocumentSelectDialog
New DBWShell command GetTreeParentProject
New script OnDrop.LST
Improved OnShowPreviewLabel.LST script
Improved ShowConfirmationDialog command
Improved LoadQuery command
Improved EditRecord and EditRevisionRecord commands
Improved CreateNewBOMItem command
Improved PlotPDFTif command
New i/o parameter for Dataentr.lst script

Solidworks

x64
Windows Vista edition
Improved consistency for child in-context references when renaming a parent assembly document
New sub-option: Environment→Use SolidWorks Materials→Apply the material to all the configurations
Improved message displayed when references are not found
SolidWorks@ConfigurationProperty@... parameters accepted from the Dataentr.LST script
Summary Info properties imported through the CustProp.txt
New sub-option: Track only out-of-context 'base part→derived part' relations
Improved support for Toolbox

Tree

Documents locked by other users functionality available in the Tree Page
Options for disabling grids active also in the Tree Page
Configurations tab in the Tree Page
Custom Query tabs in the Tree Page
Better visualization of existing drawings
Improved Find a Document … functionality on closed Projects
New sub-option: drag-and-drop on Assemblies Only for fake components

User Interface

User Interface Style
Automatic Login in the Support Area of www.mechworks.com
Improved display of Checked-out-by-others, Not-revision-managed, Standard-part attribute
Hot-keys file
No limits on CTRL-C (Copy) for Grids
Improved Delete/Plot dialog
Improved Document Selector dialog
Do not show this message again check-box

Variant Notes

$FIRSTREV(FieldName) macro

Visual Cues

Multiple Visual Cues Definition files
Right-aligned visual cues

Workflow

New parameter @SILENT passed to the OnGetWorkflowProcess.LST
Example of OnWorkflowStateHasChanged.LST

Other applications

Wizards

Assembly Duplication Wizard: Duplication As-Built
Conversion Wizard
PDMWorks Import Wizard

Other

DBCustomizer
Visual Cues Manager
Excel BOM
Category Maker
Workflow Viewer
Advanced Filter
WebClient

Behavior Changes

Briefcase

CAD Specific issues

Documents locked by other users

DWGViewer

Link Mode

Old Excel-based Bom no more available