Metadata (or metaproperty) can be added to parts or assemblies. usually it comes from the PLM/PDM/ERP or CAD software. In seemage, user can also creates is own metadata. Such information is stored in the XML of the part or assembly. It means that in seemage you can search for a metadata even if the geometry is not loaded. Imagine that you have a big model (60 thousand parts) and you need to search and see just one of them (on a poor laptop...
In seemage you can load the tree structure without the geometry (very fast), then search for the reference and then decide to load the result. And this is also available in seemage free Viewers (EXE, PDF, HTML etc.). The video below will show you how to search ... and find.
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Search on metadata when geometry is not loaded
Category: document properties, free players
ProductGrabber™
See how easy it is to use dynamic views in seemage free Player.
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Category: free players, podcast, view
Excel 2003 and Seemage Embedded
Using Excel 2003, when inserting a Seemage Embedded object, it is created in "run" mode rather than in "creation" mode.
This is why the object is not editable (size, property) and the Player starts to play with no animation.
To avoid this, one has to toggle to creation mode using the toolkey "Creation Mode" :
Category: free players
Installation of seemage Free Players
It is possible to embed seemage model in different free Players:
- seemage EXE which does not need requieres any installation (application, plug-in or activeX),
- seemage PDF which needs seemage free plug-in for Acrobat® Reader 7 or higer. To install the plug-in, Administrator rights are requiered,
- seemage ActiveX for webpage (in IE or Firefox), MS Office® documents which needs seemage ActiveX (seemageEmbedded.ocx) to be registered. Administrator rights are also requiered for this plug-in.
Visit www.seemage.com to download seemage free Players.
Category: free players, installation