Visualizing the Forest Beyond the Trees

摘要

Allen Gager frequently goes hunting. He doesn't use a crossbow or a shotgun; instead, he fires up Autodesk Inventor. He's looking for what he calls "wild files," nesting somewhere deep within the assembly trees of his design files. "We have a lot of data in (Autodesk Vault) that came from somewhere out in the wild," says Gager, a mechanical engineer for the global packing machine manufacturer KHS. "Basically the files were distributed across network drives. They're now in a single managed repository."