A little DOS batch hack: dates for filenames

for /f “tokens=2-4 delims=/ ” %%i in (”%date%”) do copy foo.bat foo%%k%%i%%j.bak Thought I’d save this for reference. I’ve seen more complicated ways to create “yyyymmdd” strings, but this seems to work pretty well for me. Go to Source  Read More →

A little DOS batch hack: dates for filenames

for /f “tokens=2-4 delims=/ ” %%i in (”%date%”) do copy foo.bat foo%%k%%i%%j.bak Thought I’d save this for reference. I’ve seen more complicated ways to create “yyyymmdd” strings, but this seems to work pretty well for me. Go to Source  Read More →

Intralink 3.4 - the next chapter… M060

You may have seen my posts last year about struggles with Intralink 3.4 installation and more notes on Intralink 3.4 M040 - well, I’m pleased to report the next step in that process is much simpler! Upgrading M040 to M060 is a stroll in the park… I’ve had 100% success on 3 runs, though Windows 2000 Server isn’t supported with... [Read more]

CADminTools 4.0 pre-release

I’ve just made the latest CADminTools available - version 4.0 pre-release - if you’ve some time, please take a look…https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128350 There’s the usual asp files + database in the CADminTools package - plus a short movie showing installation in the CADminToolsMovies package. For v4.0... [Read more]

Intralink Backup

Recently I’ve heard questions about Intralink backup scripts, so here’s an example of one I use, built over the years with info from various sources… Please add comments, suggestions, improvements below. These are the CORE (minimal) commands: Set Read-only, Run Export, Set Read-write set PDM_ORA_APPL=intralinkcd ???\dataserver\intralink\objPDMTransactionSetRO... [Read more]

CADminTools 4.0: Quick Install

4.0 is live to the world… I was going to make a nice instructional video, but made this instead… it’s a Friday after all Go to Source  Read More →

Slow news month ;-)

Now we have a new baby daughter and I’ve joined a band, there will be even less posting going on here… However if anyone has suggestions, let me know. Edwin Go to Source  Read More →

Pro/E Sleight of hand : switch drawing models

Joe Slow has duplicated a complex assembly, made changes, replaced parts, etc… but when they come to edit the drawing they realise they forgot to include it in the duplication process! (Or they somehow duplicated the drawing, but left it pointing to the old assembly.) How can they have a copy of the “donor” drawing referring to their... [Read more]

Useful new blog

Take a look at this new blog by Marc Mettes, regular contributor on PTC/USER exploders on topics such as SQL, Intralink UI scripting, etc… it’s worthwhile reading for anyone delving behind the scenes of Intralink.  Years ago I encouraged him to organise all his tips on a website after gaining a lot of benefit myself from his programming... [Read more]

Pro/E with Mathcad (part 1)

Finally I get round to posting some knowledge gained from my struggles with Mathcad Pro/E integration… It has been a struggle, since there’s still no smooth join between the 2 applications (even though I envisioned it in April 2006!).  The information here is a mix of what you find in the user manuals + what you pick up as you go along…... [Read more]

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