New and enhanced Plug-ins

There are seven new upgraded plug-ins included in this release. Some are specifically designed to help users outside of engineering. For example, the automatic generation of Parts lists is an excellent organizational tool for everyone to use, from Sales to Spares.

Minimum Distance

This Plug-in can calculate the minimum distance between parts or surfaces.

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.4.1 (or above) & .NET Framework 2.0 (or above)

Exploded Assembly

This Plug-in creates automated exploded views of assemblies.

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.4.1 (or above) & .NET Framework 2.0 (or above)

Automatic Part ID

A new markup menu item brings up a panel to set the options for the markup creation. The panel will allow the user to set the following:

Apply markup to all parts, all sub assemblies or single part/sub assembly
- Select markup content (Name, Number)
- Set background color
- Set font for markup

On execution the markup will be created for every visible part or sub assembly in the tree when the "Apply markup" option is set to "all parts" or "all assemblies". If set to single part, the user will be prompted to select the part from screen.

Markup will only be applied to part/sub assemblies that are visible and won't be created for hidden parts.

The NUMBER option for markup content will use the same numbering scheme that has been employed in the parts list plug-in. This means that the NUMBER option will only apply to parts and not sub assemblies. The NAME option will use the name that is shown in the assembly tree at teh time of creation. If the user changes the name in the tree after the markup is created, the markup will not be automatically updated.

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.3 (or above) & .NET Framework (or above) 2.0

Automatic Part List

A listing of all the subassemblies, intermediates, parts, and raw materials that go into a parent assembly showing the quantity of each required to make an assembly.

Basically, a bill of material (BOM) is a complete list of the components making up an object or assembly. ERP and MRP databases contribute information to a BOM. It is also part of material requirements planning (MRP).

Bill of material is a list of the components necessary to make a part or product and the amount of each component required (inclusive of number, size, specification and grade of each piece).

This plug-in allows users to extract this information and use it in a variety of ways, typically in quotations or documentation. Previously this process was somewhat laborious, but not with this plug-in.

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.3 (or above) & .NET Framework (or above) 2.0

Draft Angle Analysis

The Draft Angle Analysis plug-in allows the user to specify one or more parts in an assembly, and ask for visual feedback on what level of draft angle has been applied to these surfaces when compared to a "pull direction".

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.3 (or above) & .NET Framework (or above) 2.0

Model Compare

The Model Compare plug-in compares two sets of parts or assemblies and displays the material that has been added or removed.

By default the added material will be shown in blue and the removed material will be shown in red, but users may change the colors of the added and removed material.

Requirements:
SpinFire Professional 8.3 (or above) & .NET Framework (or above) 2.0

Weight Calculus

The goal of SpinFire Professional Weight calculus Plug-in is to calculate the weight of a part or the whole assembly imported in SpinFire, based on the specific weight of a list of material included in the plug-in.

The result of this operation can be shown on the screen and eventually included in the .3D file as a markup following user needs.