Designate™
Designate 1.5 — Now Available
A Web-based framework for managing ngineering design documents
View, Search, Report and Publish Valuable Engineering Calculation Information
The heart of the Calculation Management Suite, Designate is the only enterprise application that helps engineering organizations capture the methods, results and critical values behind each project design for reuse, audit and oversight. Designate delivers these organizational benefits throughout the product development process by supplying a Web-based framework for centralized access, auditing, reporting and publishing of design work created using Mathcad as the client-based application.
Designate is Mathsoft's application for viewing, searching, reporting and publishing an organization's valuable engineering information.
Key Capabilities
- Access online engineering libraries of content, and understand the context of each resource via annotations and provenance information.
- View Mathcad worksheets with just a browser—no plug-ins are required.
- Quickly search across all worksheets that are managed in Designate, including general full-text search, advanced search on selective worksheet regions and customer annotation meta data (such as author, title, project code, source of equation, etc.)
- Create new worksheets based on existing worksheets.
- Create portfolios and binders to improve organization of files and folders.
- Interface with your e-mail system to notify other engineers of critical changes.
- Track the lineage of every worksheet through its various uses.
- Report on the interdependencies of every worksheet.
- Publish Designate-managed information in other formats, including PDF, XHTML and XSL-FO.
- Provide full publishing support for the Mathcad Application Server.
- Manage security and user configuration through easy-to use tabs and administrative tools.
- Leverage support for international languages and formats.
Key Benefits
- With improved control over engineering information, create better products more quickly and at a lower cost.
- Provide employees, customers, and partners global access to valuable engineering information for research, management and reuse.
- Enforce best practices by making it easy to create worksheets based on existing templates.
- Publish reports in HTML, Adobe PDF or Adobe FrameMaker.
- Minimize impact on IT departments through open standard, highly reliable and easily integrated technologies such as XML and the Microsoft .NET framework.
