View assemblies as a MindMap
Does anyone else layout their assemblies as a MindManager Mindmap for the purposes of interrogating for project information?
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Re: View assemblies as a MindMap
Treehouse is more a tool for the designer - MindMapping is much more powerful for filtering and brainstorming.
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Re: View assemblies as a MindMap
I use Mind Mapping tools for other things in my life, but I can see how this would certainly help with large SolidWorks projects. Looking at your screen shot, I think Treehouse might serve some of the purpose that you are showing there unless you have some metadata in each of the assembly nodes.
Can you explain what you would want out of your MindMapping software
Have you tried using Treehouse to layout a project, then use Assembly Visualization in the SolidWorks assembly for color coded components based on project status or workflow state values?
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I know about the Treehouse and Assembly Visualization - both of these you can consider utilities for the designer. MindMapping the assembly opens up interrogation to the whole company. For instance, manufacturing prints out the mindmap in large format on the wall. A purchaser generates and filters the map for all fasteners/hardware that are ready for purchase. A manager shows the upper echelon the mindmap on a digital projector, and switches back and forth to the Gantt Chart view.
That type of thing - a MindMap is used by the whole company who needs to visualiaze what's happening.
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I meant to say that the metadata in SolidWorks is configured to appear in the MindMap - it is then filterable.
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Now you're talking about some interesting ideas. Can you post some screen shots of what you're talking about. I know of a few other EPDM guys who might have some input on this.
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this picture shows a generated MindMap with SolidWorks metadata configured to appear in each topic. Perhaps it's scaled too small to see
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This image shows the Gantt chart that shows up in MindManager, if Task-specific Information is entered into SolidWorks custom properties. You generate new map when you want to brainstorm the project at a moment in time. For instance
- start date
- end date
- responsible designer
- priority
- percentage complete
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Here's a link to a Flash MindMap on the web, it expands and collapses, and there's a picture that explains what SolidWorks information is configured in each MindManager Topic.
Actually, one can generate SolidWorks assemblies in MindMap format and put it on a website - they'll even work on an iPad.
