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CADfix

Company / developer:
  ITI TranscenData

CADfix provides a solution for the problems of data exchange and re-use between different engineering systems and applications. It allows the user to import CAD data and then to repair and manipulate it to a form most suitable for the downstream application - with the main objective of eliminating expensive CAD model repair and rework. CADfix is a suite of translation and repair tools for engineering product data. The result of two decades of ongoing research and development, CADfix offers true interoperability between a comprehensive selection of CAD, CAM and CAE systems through an unrivalled series of automatic and manual geometry manipulation tools.

The CADfix Process

The CADfix Wizard offers an automatic processing capability for fixing the data to a valid well connected surface or solid model. The Wizard is supported by an extensive set of interactive geometry manipulation tools for use as required.

CADfix also offers model defeaturing utilities which are very popular with CAE analysis users who defeature the model with operations such as the joining or collapsing of short edges and small faces, and automatic hole removal.

The CADfix geometry preparation process then makes sure that the model is suitably flavored for the downstream application. This includes detecting and repairing badly parameterized surfaces, twisted or folded surfaces and simplifying overly complex entities - all within user controlled tolerances.

Who should use CADfix?

CADfix is the ideal solution for anyone who needs to:

• Share product data between departments or with customers and suppliers
• Reuse solid model geometry in different classes of CAD/CAM/CAE applications
• Recover legacy data that would otherwise need to be remodeled from scratch

Firebird

Company / developer:
  Firebird Foundation Incorporated

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000.

The Firebird software is free. That means anyone can build a custom version of it, as long as that person or organisation is willing to provide the modifications, under the same IDPL licensing, for others to use.

FlexiDATA

Company / developer:
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FlexiDATA is a data handling program which is designed for use in schools. It is suitable for subjects such as Science, Geography and Mathematics, as well as for delivering all of the data handling required for KS3 and KS4 ICT courses. The software is versatile, powerful and easy to use; pupils only have to learn about the more complex features when they need them.

Cardbox

Company / developer:
  Cardbox Software Limited

Design your own databases by drawing them on the screen.

Index any number of words, numbers and dates for fast retrieval.

Search on simple or complex criteria.

Refine your searches step by step.

View summaries or complete records.

Design your own print formats for reports, forms, letters, labels...

Store photographs and scanned documents.

Automate your work by using macros.

Share data with other Cardbox users on a network or across the Internet.

Exchange data with Microsoft Office and other programs.

Choose the edition to suit your needs: Professional, Home or Client.

Cardbox runs on Microsoft Windows (all versions including 95/98/Me, 2000/XP/Vista). For networks, the central Cardbox Server runs on Windows or Linux.

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Windows NT 4.0

Windows NT 4.0 is a preemptive, graphical and business-oriented operating system designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor computers. It is the fourth release of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on 29 July 1996. It is a 32-bit Windows system available in both workstation and server editions with a graphical environment similar to that of Windows 95. The "NT" designation in the product's title initially stood for "New Technology" according to Microsoft's then-CEO Bill Gates, but now no longer has any specific meaning. Windows NT 4.0 was succeeded by Windows 2000 in February 2000. Windows NT 4.0 is classified as a hybrid kernel operating system.

FileMaker Pro

Company / developer:
  FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro is an easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more

How did FileMaker Pro get to be the world’s leading easy-to-use database application? For one simple reason – it helps anyone with any type of task get things done faster. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or Windows user – you can create and share information with each other through a network, over the web, or in popular formats such as PDF. Millions of people just like you rely on FileMaker Pro every day to effortlessly manage and share their information.

FileMaker Pro

Company / developer:
  FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro is an easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more

How did FileMaker Pro get to be the world’s leading easy-to-use database application? For one simple reason – it helps anyone with any type of task get things done faster. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or Windows user – you can create and share information with each other through a network, over the web, or in popular formats such as PDF. Millions of people just like you rely on FileMaker Pro every day to effortlessly manage and share their information.

FileMaker Pro

Company / developer:
  FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro is an easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more

How did FileMaker Pro get to be the world’s leading easy-to-use database application? For one simple reason – it helps anyone with any type of task get things done faster. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or Windows user – you can create and share information with each other through a network, over the web, or in popular formats such as PDF. Millions of people just like you rely on FileMaker Pro every day to effortlessly manage and share their information.

FileMaker Pro

Company / developer:
  FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro is an easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more

How did FileMaker Pro get to be the world’s leading easy-to-use database application? For one simple reason – it helps anyone with any type of task get things done faster. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or Windows user – you can create and share information with each other through a network, over the web, or in popular formats such as PDF. Millions of people just like you rely on FileMaker Pro every day to effortlessly manage and share their information.

Visual FoxPro

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Visual FoxPro

Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984; Fox Software merged with Microsoft in 1992 and the software acquired further features and the prefix "Visual". The last version of FoxPro (2.6) worked under the Mac OS, DOS, Windows, and Unix: Visual FoxPro 3.0, the first "Visual" version, dropped the platform support to only Mac and Windows, and later versions were Windows-only.

Visual FoxPro, also known as VFP, is mainly used to write desktop database applications running on Windows but it can also be used to write fat client, middleware, and web applications.

In late 2002, it was demonstrated that Visual FoxPro can run on Linux under the Windows emulator Wine. In 2003, this led to complaints by Microsoft: it was claimed that the deployment of FoxPro code on non-Windows machines violates the End User License Agreement.

Rumors suggesting that Microsoft intends to end support for FoxPro have been common since Microsoft's acquisition of the product, despite the product having one of the longest support timeframes for a Microsoft product (extended support until 2014). VFP 9 was released to manufacturing on December 17, 2004, and the Fox team is currently working on a project codenamed Sedna which will be built on top of the VFP9 codebase.