ZDB Launcher App
ZDB Viewer for Alibre Design
Above, s specific term was searched... With over 40,000 files, all files in which this term appears anywhere are found in less than a second!
The SQLite database is extremely fast and very efficient and compact, even with very large amounts of data!

ZDB PDM DMS Alibre Drawing Management

First things first: your existing folder structure will NOT be touched.
Everything remains as it is! The ZDB drawing management for Alibre Design EXP, PRO and Atom3D automatically reads the drawings into a fast SQLite database and also works without an Alibre licence (e.g. in Production planing).

NEW Drawing-Management and Database for Alibre Design and Atom3D, inclusive "Where used".

With ZDB Alibre Drawing Management you import all information from your drawing inventory into a super fast SQLite database. Individual Alibre files or directories with subdirectories can be imported fully automatically. All General Properties, Standard Properties
AND Custom Properties are considered and imported cleanly into the database. This gives you the possibility to search for all contents within all Alibre files. Furthermore, information is displayed where a certain component has been used or where a 2D drawing of it already exists.
Another new feature is the option to sort by files with high activity. This means that the list of all files can be sorted according to the number of save operations. This gives you a good overview of which components and projects are being worked on and how much, especially in a multi-user environment.
SEARCH EXAMPLES:
- which parts you have defined with a certain material?
- which parts, assemblies, drawings all belong to project XY?
- what is the change index for part ABC?
- in which project was a certain part used?
- which manufacturer supplies what?
- which supplier delivers what?
- which is the largest file?
- which projects were processed in December 2020?
- Display of the standard properties
- Display of user-defined properties
Where used? Yes!
  -> In which assembly was a certain part used?
  -> Does a 2D drawing of a 3D part or assembly already exist?
  -> In which 2D drawings was a particular part used?

You can search for any term and combination!

"We have been working with the ZDB-Tool Tool for a year now and are very satisfied with it. It speeds up the search considerably and reduces the error rate at the same time. We can only recommend it to everyone. Above all, it is already integrated in Expert, which is surprisingly positive anyway and has to be purchased at a very high price from our competitors. Personally, I can only recommend everyone to take a closer look at this lean and fast search tool  :-)"

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All programmes are bilingual in English / German. The language is automatically detected.
Operation instructions
After you install ZDB Setup and start it for the first time, you can proceed as follows:
(FYI: Your file structure will not be touched! All your files remain in place).
Start the Launcher.exe
The Launcher App starts all existing programme modules in one interface.
We recommend that some regularly running applications can be entered into the Windows Task Scheduler.
The scheduler can do this for you and also delete the task again.
ZDB Launcher App for Alibre Design

Now start the programme ZDBImport.exe

This reads in all Alibre files from a freely definable directory.
We recommend that you run this module regularly so that changes to the database are adopted and the database is always up to date. (In the scheduler, the programme runs in the background.)
(This can be conveniently entered into the Windows task scheduling with the launcher above.)
ZDB Import Alibre Design Data

 The first import of all Alibre file information may take a little longer depending on the amount of data. This concerns the  Launcher-Button:

 

Start ZDB Importer...

 

After that, these programm only took a few seconds per run!


Then start the programme ZDBConstituents.exe
This programme searches for all components of an assembly or a drawing.
We recommend that you run this module regularly so that changes to your parts, assemblies and drawings are adopted and the database is always up to date. (In the scheduler, the programme runs in the background.)
(This can be conveniently entered into the Windows task planning with the launcher above.)
ZDB Import Alibre Design Constituents

 The first import of all constituents take longer depending on the amount of data.

This concerns the  Launcher-Button:

 

Start ZDB Constituents...

 

After that, these programm only took a few seconds per run!


Now you can only work with the ZDBViewer.exe
From now on, you can search in the viewer for everything in the properties, parts lists or file names. Furthermore, a print function is available to print out the corresponding data sheets.
ZDB Alibre Design Viewer
Please sponsor so that this tool can be further developed.
Without donations, further development and maintenance will not be easier. Therefore our thanks go to all who contribute.
After you install ZDB Setup and start it for the first time, you can proceed as follows:
(FYI: your file structure will not be changed! All files stay in place).
(FYI: your file structure will not be changed! All your files will stay in place).