Centro 7.0 Release Notes

Overview

Centro 7.0 is the latest in product visualization software from Actify, Inc. Centro 7.0 is a 64-bit server application that is fully browser based, with a scalable architecture utilizing a graph database and greater flexibility with action sequences. 

Centro 7.0 upgrades from Centro 6 are listed below.

• 64-bit support
• Wholly web-based application with a redesigned user interface
• Stable Linux database environment
• Graph database technology for relational reporting
• Dynamic and flexible pipelines vs static sentinels
• IF / THEN decision based pipeline action
• Pipeline uncompressed of .ZIP, .RAR, .TAR, ..GZ, and 7Z, files
• Populate Catalog with physical properties and CAD attributes
• Personalized Catalog home page
• More flexible Catalog layouts
• Assembly tree navigation on Catalog parts
• Easier Catalog "breadcrumb" navigation
• Ability to manually create thumbnail file and SpinFire Web file in Catalog
• Catalog Favorites
• Catalog Projects to limit Catalog accessibility
• Catalog Resources
• Catalog DataDocs
• Standard views, user views, and CAD views in SpinFire Web
• SpinFire Web module ready for web page embedding
• Centro Control - revision control system
• Multiple sourced Bill of Materials (BOM) Manager
• Administrator controlled finer-detailed application accessibility

In addition, Centro 7.0 gives you the ability to:

• Predefined Most Viewed, and Recently Viewed search
• Create saved Catalog searches based on CAD attributes, Catalog Parts, DataDocs, CAD physical Properties, Resources and Projects
• Greater Search Compare attributes to select from
• Add images to Catalog from SpinFire web
• Add any file types associated to Catalog Parts

Centro 7 Future Features

• Saving notes in SpinFire Web
• 3D Shape Search
• Setting start times for pipelines
• XML extraction of PMI, assembly structure, 
• LDAP user management
• Shattered Assembly support
• Multiple language support

Known Issues

See Centro 7 Known Issues

Supported Environments

* It's recommended to have n-1 core processors where n = the number of total concurrent jobs running.

^† The amount of available free space is dependent on the amount and size of files and revisions uploaded as resources to the Catalog.

Prerequisite Installations

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653 
  (Note - Already included in Windows Server 2012 )
• Internet Information Services (iis)
• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)