News: CCE EnSuite 2013 Released

Inspiration for this post:

CCE has released the newest version of EnSuite 2013 featuring enhancement to their support of both SolidWorks and CATIA…

  • Full support of SolidWorks 2013.
  • CATIA V5 assemblies that include Catshape components can now be processed.

This suite of Viewers and Translators touts an array of features that can fill out your CAD management needs…

 CAD File support  EnSuite Features
  • CATIA V4, V5, V6
  • NX
  • Creo
  • SolidWorks
  • Solid Edge
  • Parasolid
  • STEP
  • JT
  • CGR
  • STL
  • 3D PDF
  • IGES
  • View/Translate CAD Files without their native CAD system
  • Assemble and compare CAD files of different formats
  • Measure and analyze geometry
  • Check interference between parts
  • Create Bill of Materials

What Intrigued Me

Frankly, a product like EnSuite awakens my inner-most CAD Manager persona. I can actually feel my heart rate actually increase as I think about it. … Yeah. Really. (I know. I’m weird)

The fact is, often times engineering organizations don’t accurately consider the time wasted outside the direct context of production. If a task they categorize as either direct engineering or design related, it is often delegated to non-production staff and considered overhead. File translation is often one of those tasks, and is assigned to a CAD Manager or IT person.

As more and more of these organizations grow both their multi-CAD commitments, while their software licensing budgets tighten, it’s tools like EnSuite that provide a way to address both issues. Specifically, EnSuite can be an effective tool for an organization that doesn’t use SolidWorks, yet encounter their files in their workflows on occasion.

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