The Measurements Module enables users to enter their actual measurements against the expected values that InspectionXpert extracts from their drawing.  Dimensions are shaded in red or green—both on the drawing and in the measurements table—to show if they are in or out of tolerance.  The CMM Import Module enables users to import measurement values from CMM reports and reconcile them with the expected values from the drawing to create a complete inspection report.

New enhancements include:

• Support for Solid Edge ST3 and Solid Edge ST2; upcoming support for Solid Edge ST4
• Single window integration with Solid Edge for a better user experience
• Inspection project data is persisted in the Solid Edge drawing file for easy updates to inspection projects when drawing data changes
• Better control over the order and placement of balloons in the Solid Edge drawing
• Support for mapping Solid Edge Configuration-Specific Properties to your inspection report form.
• Mapping of Solid Edge Custom Properties to the InspectionXpert Project Properties, such as part number, part name, revision, etc.

“We’re thrilled to be adding Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard to our portfolio of tools for EPDM – it complements our ongoing goal of extending PDM and PLM tools to fill gaps and add value”, said Eric Doubell, president and owner of Razorleaf.“Office2PDM has been a great product from day one, and we’re excited to further extend its reach within the EPDM community.”

Razorleaf intends to further extend and enhance Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard, as the company continues to deliver on its promise of making PLM tools work better for its clients. Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard are SolidWorks Partner Products, offering the highest level of integration for access to the Enterprise PDM system. The transition from Extensible CAD to Razorleaf should be transparent to existing customers, and a net benefit given Razorleaf’s long history with Enterprise PDM and its predecessor, Conisio.

“This transition just makes a lot of sense to us,” said Jeff Cope, president and owner of Extensible CAD Technologies. “We can focus on the incredible growth and adoption of our InspectionXpert product line, while one of the leading EPDM consultants in North America – Razorleaf – can drive the future success of Office2PDM. Our relationships with the people at Razorleaf go back a long time, and the product is in great hands.”

Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard are available immediately for download from Razorleaf’s website and for purchase from authorized resellers. Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard are compatible with the following software versions:

• Enterprise PDM 2009, 2010, and 2011
• Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007, and 2010
• Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, 2007, and 2010
• Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, and 2010

Office2PDM and EPDM Dashboard can be obtained by contacting your SolidWorks EPDM reseller, or by contacting Razorleaf directly.

About Extensible CAD Technologies

Founded in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies focuses on the needs of CAD users to leverage CAD data throughout the enterprise and the supply chain. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage its experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to its customers. For the latest news and information, visit the company’s web site at www.extensiblecad.com or call 800.379.0322.

About Razorleaf

Razorleaf is a consulting services provider that helps companies become market leaders through the measured application of technology and best practices to existing business processes. Razorleaf specializes in process analysis, implementation, training and support of enterprise technologies including Design Automation, Enterprise Portal, Product Data Management, and Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Razorleaf is privately held with headquarters in Stow, Ohio. For additional information visit www.razorleaf.com.

Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

InspectionXpert for Creo Elements/Pro will save users up to 97% of the time it takes to create bubbled Creo Elements/Pro drawing and inspection report forms, and because inspection project data can be saved, it’s incredibly fast and easy to handle drawing revisions. The software enables Creo users to quickly capture and filter on notes, dimensions, hole callouts, geometric tolerances, and finish symbols from Creo Elements/Pro drawings. Users can then instantly export to standard or user-customized report templates.

Check back to hear more about our support of this exciting new product offering from our partner PTC.

Raleigh, NC – May 17, 2011 –Extensible CAD Technologies announces two new products in its InspectionXpert automated inspection software family: InspectionXpert for PDF and InspectionXpert OnDemand. Both products are completely redesigned versions of the company’s flagship automated inspection software, and offer users a variety of new features and a sleek new interface for easier navigation and better workflow. InspectionXpert software saves companies significant time and money by automating the error-prone manual process of ballooning 2D drawings and creating quality inspection forms.

The new products offer the same functionality with two different delivery methods. InspectionXpert for PDF provides a new streamlined installation process that greatly reduces the need for IT support. Its license-based installation process provides users with always-on access, ideal for quality departments with limited or no access to the Internet.

InspectionXpert OnDemand’s easy access requires absolutely no installation, completely eliminating the need for IT support. Users simply click on a web link to instantly launch the software and always have access to the latest version each time they log on.

InspectionXpert for PDF and InspectionXpert OnDemand do not require CAD software so companies that don’t use CAD to create or modify inspection drawings can still use these products to automate their quality inspection drawings. The new release works with PDF/TIFF files created from any source, including scanned drawings.

“We are excited about these new products because of the improvement in the user experience,” says Jeff Cope, president of Extensible CAD Technologies. “Everything from access and deployment to workflow and customization is greatly improved. In addition, the software’s new Publish to Net Inspect feature will provide an end-to-end solution for companies who use Net-Inspect quality management software.”

Other significant new enhancements include:

Increased accuracy. User can now choose between an option for searchable text recognition or the powerful optical character recognition (OCR) that is already available, greatly improving the overall quality and accuracy of extracted data.

Easier navigation. Tightly integrated navigation tools enable users to click on a balloon in their drawing to view and edit the data for that item. Clicking on a row in their characteristic table now highlights the balloon on their drawing.

Better quality. Image capture quality has been greatly improved, even at low zoom factor levels, which provides improved OCR accuracy.

Redesigned interface. The software’s new ribbon user interface makes performing common tasks faster and easier.

Multiple-drawing support. Users can now work with multiple drawings in a single project, in addition to multi-page drawings already supported.

File Management. Simplified file management ensures that all of your inspection project data is stored in a single project file.

Project migration. Project files created with the company’s InspectionXpert First Article can be easily migrated to InspectionXpert for PDF or InspectionXpert OnDemand.

About Extensible CAD Technologies

Founded in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies focuses on the needs of CAD and PLM users. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage its experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to its customers. For the latest news and information, visit our web site at http://www.extensiblecad.com or call 800.379.0322 .

“With Office2PDM, CAD2M will help our customers expand their data management capabilities further into all areas of their business”, says Bert Smeitink, General Manager for CAD2M, “and the Executive Dashboard in Office2PDM helps managers with allocating resources to keep engineering processes on time and on schedule. The InspectionXpert product line integrates with CAD programs such as SolidWorks and reads PDF files and scanned drawings to automate the ballooning of inspection drawings and the creation of inspection sheets to eliminate manual processes. Both products are valuable tools to assist our clients in improving productivity.”
“We are excited to have CAD2M in our reseller program,” said Jeffery Cope, President of Extensible CAD Technologies. “Their reputation as one of the top SolidWorks resellers in Europe and their commitment to their customers’ success make them integral to reaching companies who will benefit from using our solutions.”

About CAD2M
CAD2M specializes in optimizing your design-to-market process. Our thorough knowledge of your field will help us in short, sharp analysis of the opportunities in your design-to-market process. Our experience in implementing solutions and providing professional guidance ensures an effective project approach. Visit our website at www.cad2m.nl.

About Extensible CAD Technologies
Since our founding in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies has focused on the needs of CAD and PLM users. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage our experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to our customers. For the latest news and information visit our web site (http://www.extensiblecad.com) or call 800.379.0322.

Inspection tool automates the creation of quality inspection reports and ballooning of drawings and models

Raleigh, NC – March 15, 2011 –In response to Rand Worldwide’s recent announcement that it will no longer sell or support its Functional Tolerance and Annotation (FT&A) and First Article Inspection (FAI) tools, Extensible CAD Technologies announces support for CATIA V5 users needing automated inspection tools. Extensible CAD Technologies’ InspectionXpert for CATIA V5 automates the ballooning of both 2D drawings and 3D models in CATIA as well as the creation of quality inspection forms, such as first-article inspection forms, in-process inspection forms, AS9102 forms and PPAP forms for quality control inspections.

The latest version of InspectionXpert for CATIA V5, released in January, features a redesigned user interface; greatly enhanced support for AS9102 Forms 1, 2 and 3; single window integration with CATIA; the ability to save product data for easy updates to inspection projects; better control over the order and placement of balloons in CATIA drawings or models; direct publish to Net-Inspect; support for mapping CATIA user parameters to inspection report forms; and the ability to treat dimensions that are entered as notes as dimensions and extract them. InspectionXpert now supports CATIA V5 R18, R19, and R20.

On Wednesday, March 30^th, from 2:00-3:00 PM EST, Extensible CAD Technologies will be offering a free webinar that will show CATIA users how they can save 90% of the time it takes to create inspection drawings and report forms using InspectionXpert for CATIA V5. Those interested can register for the webinar at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/507023139. If you cannot attend, you can find additional information here, or by calling 800.379.0322.

About Extensible CAD Technologies

Founded in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies focuses on the needs of CAD and PLM users. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage its experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to its customers. For the latest news and information, visit our web site at http://www.extensiblecad.com or call 800.379.0322.

Editorial Contact: Barb Schmitz, 440.937.4251, barbschmitz@centurytel.net

Raleigh, NC – March 1, 2011 – Extensible CAD Technologies today announced their new release of InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER. InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER is an inspection report automation and ballooning tool that extracts inspection characteristics from Pro/ENGINEER drawings and instantly exports them to inspection report forms. The new release features a completely redesigned interface and the ability to save inspection project data for later reuse or revision.  Here are a few of the key improvements:

InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER

• Retooled InspectionXpert interface for better ease-of-use and project workflow
• Inspection project data and settings can now be saved for easy reuse or revision
• Better control over the order and placement of inspection balloons
• Automate mapping of custom attributes and project properties to inspection report forms
• Refresh Project option to automatically identify and capture drawing changes

InspectionXpert for Pro/ENGINEER saves up to 97% of the time it takes to create a bubbled Pro/ENGINEER drawing and inspection report form, and because inspection project data can be saved, it’s incredibly fast and easy to handle drawing revisions.  “We continue to expand the capabilities of our CAD-integrated versions of InspectionXpert to meet our clients’ needs, both in functionality and ease of use,” explains President Jeff Cope. ”We’ve also added direct integration with Net-Inspect, and are providing ways to integrate with other quality systems such as CEBOS MQ1 that are helping our clients streamline their quality processes from end to end.”

The InspectionXpert product line eliminates the manual ballooning of inspection drawings and manual creation of inspection sheets for first article and in process inspections.  InspectionXpert integrates with popular CAD programs including Solid Edge, CATIA, AutoCAD, and SolidWorks, and InspectionXpert First Article works with PDF and TIFF file formats.  Visit http://www.inspectionxpert.com for more information.

 About Extensible CAD Technologies

 Founded in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies focuses on the needs of CAD and PLM users. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage its experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to its customers. For the latest news and information, visit our web site at http://www.extensiblecad.com or call 800.379.0322.

“Office2PDM will help our customers expand their data management capabilities”, explains Manfred Gravius, CEO for DPS, “and the Executive Dashboard in Office2PDM helps managers with allocating resources to keep engineering processes on time and on schedule. The InspectionXpert product line integrates with SolidWorks, and other CAD programs, or with PDF files to auto-balloon inspection drawings and export to inspection reports.  Both products are valuable tools to assist our clients in improving productivity and efficiency.”

“We are pleased to have DPS Software GmbH join our reseller program”, said Jeff Cope, President of Extensible CAD Technologies. “Their reputation as one of the top SolidWorks resellers in Europe and their commitment to their customers’ success make them integral to reaching companies who will benefit from using our solutions.”

About DPS Software GmbH                       

At DPS we focus on the individual requirements of our customers to integrate solutions that improve their competitiveness. DPS has 140 employees in offices across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. DPS is the largest SolidWorks Enterprise PDM reseller in Europe. Over 3,250 customers use the DPS portfolio to increase their own power and ability to innovate. Visit our website at http://www.dps-software.de.

About Extensible CAD Technologies                                      

Since our founding in 2004, Extensible CAD Technologies has focused on the needs of CAD and PLM users. Extensible CAD Technologies has been able to leverage our experience and expertise to provide innovative and high-quality solutions to our customers. For the latest news and information visit our web site (http://www.extensiblecad.com) or call 800.379.0322.