CoCreate OneSpace Manager Server 2007 Readme

January 2007

Thank you for purchasing a OneSpace Manager Server product. Our newest release of Manager Server contains several enhancements and new features. Please see the "Update Training" document for a list of new features.

This document contains information that may not be included in the documentation for Manager Server 2007 (15.00). Please read this document before installing the product for any last minute information.

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Late-breaking Changes

HP-UX Status

As previously announced, OneSpace Modeling, Drafting, Model Manager and Drawing Manager are not supported on HP-UX with the CoCreate OneSpace 2007 release. HP-UX database and file servers continue to be supported. Refer to the platform support document for more details.

HP-UX customers may continue to use OneSpace Designer 2005 on HP-UX or they may upgrade to Microsoft Windows and run OneSpace 2007 on Windows.

Schema Updates

Beginning with OneSpace Manager 14.20, the installer has been improved to automatically detect whether an upgrade or a new installation is required. The detection process uses a client to connect to the database and that client is unable to connect to unsupported versions (like WorkManager 5 and WorkManager 6). Customers that need to upgrade from those very old versions will need to upgrade in two steps, from the old version to an intermediate supported version (like OneSpace Manager 13), then from that intermediate version to Manager Server 15.00.

Licenses

This release is upgrade protected. All customers with support contracts should have already received upgrade licenses as part of the Manager Server 2007 upgrade process.

Beginning with the 2004 (12.00) versions of CoCreate products, a version compatibility check is performed between the application and the license server. You will receive an error message if the license server version number is less than the application version number. Details of the licensing changes are included in the following sections:

When Manager Server is upgraded to 2007, you must upgrade to MEls 15.00.

Version Requirements:

Starting with the revision 11.60 of the license server and the revision 11.60 of the applications a version compatibility check is done between these components.

If the major version of the application is greater than the major version of the license server a warning is shown within the application and at the license server but licenses will be granted and used if they are available.

With the major revision 12 of the ME License Server the warning will be converted into an error, and the license(s) will not be granted, therefore the software application cannot be used.

In summary the following condition must be fulfilled for every application revision 2004 (12) or greater:

Major Version(License Server)  [EQUAL or GREATER]  Major Version(Application)

Blocked Licenses:

Starting with revision 12 the License Server will reject blocked licenses.
Blocked licenses are licenses which are marked as "blocked" in the CoCreate license database.
Usually licenses were blocked if they were split or moved to other License Servers during a license exchange process.
No operations can be performed on blocked licenses.
During the license exchange process the customer confirmed to remove them from his license configuration and never use them in the future.
Therefore it is never valid to use any blocked license.

Example:

If such invalid licenses are found in an active license configuration the License Server will select and disable them.
Attention: The license administrator has to remove such licenses from the active license configuration to have a valid license configuration.

Only the License Server revision 12 will keep blocked licenses active during a grace period of three months.
This grace period will give the license administrator enough time to consolidate his license configuration to setup a valid license configuration.
After this grace period all blocked licenses are disabled by the License Server and cannot be used anymore.
All further License Server revisions after revision 12 will not have any grace period any more. Blocked licenses then will be disabled immediately.

Known problems and workarounds

PDF Output

In Annotation revisions 14.50 and earlier, the default PDF generation settings used a default pen size of 0. At 15.00, the default pen size changed to 0.5, making it difficult to see all of the lines when you have scales of 1:2 or smaller.

The plot attributes can be modified in Annotation by creating a custom style, which can then be sent to Model Manager to use when creating a PDF. See the Model Manager Customization Guide, "PDF customization" for more information.

Running Design Data Management and Drawing Manager on one computer

Design Data Management and Drawing Manager both need the environment variable WMDT_DIR. Design Data Management needs:

WMDT_DIR=C:\Program Files\CoCreate\OneSpace Manager 2007\desktop

Drawing Manager needs:

WMDT_DIR=C:\Program Files\CoCreate\Shared\Model Manager 2007\desktop

Customers who need to run both Drawing Manager and Design Data Management on the same computer will need to change the values of the WMDT_DIR environment variable when they switch between Drawing Manager and Design Data Management. When the WMDT_DIR value is changed, Drafting must be restarted.

Drawing Manager requires that the environment variable WMDT_PROFILE is set to EXPERT.

Design Data Management information

Comparison of Drawing Manager 2D BOM scan and DDM 2D BOM scan.

The following table shows functionality differences between Design Data Management 2D BOM scan and Drawing Manager.

 

DDM 2D

Drawing Manager 2D

Scan Add

Yes

No

Scan Clear

Yes

No

Top Down Sync
  Add & Clear, but retain manually added

No

Yes

Scan to level

Yes

No

1 level scan

Yes

No

USING macro "Awm_val_store_old_version" within the Drafting application

Examples

LET Awm_val_store_old_version "STORE_270" This macro makes it possible to store a Drawing 2D into MI format 2.70

LET Awm_val_store_old_version "STORE_270 ANNO" This macro makes it possible to store a Drawing 2D into MI format 2.70 with Annotation info (MI File Creating System). (Useful for users using Drafting and Annotation synchronously)

LET Awm_val_store_old_version "STORE ANNO" This macro makes it possible to store a Drawing 2D into MI format 2.80 (current) with Annotation mode. (Drafting <> Annotation's users)

Note

Load of different versions in OneSpace Modeling

"Show Alternative Versions" is a new option inside of the Design Data Management function that is new to the "Reload" option within OneSpace Modeling.

"Show Alternative Versions" expands the "Reload" option with the possibility of reloading any version of elements from Manager Server.

New version replace function

Use of the New Version Replace functionality will cause previous versions of thumbnails to no longer be visible. Use of the functionality will also interfere with replication of versions when using Global Data Management.

Expanded store option in OneSpace Modeling

Store functionality is now expanded with the new "Store Modify" option, which allows you to store all parts and assemblies beneath the selected assembly automatically. All new and modified parts and assemblies are stored to Manager Server with the previous selected store conditions. This is the same as manually saving all elements from bottom to top separately.

SAP Process Adapter

Installation on Windows

The SAP Process Adapter can only be installed as part of the Windows installation from the CDROM. You must install the Design Data Management personality to obtain the macros for the SAP Process Adapter.

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