New User Onboarding

During the DMC Beta release, only current DMDII members as well as special friends will be able to sign up under their organization. If you're organization is not a DMDII member or your organization did not have a chance to sign-up on the platform during the alpha release, you can still get access to DMC features and such. During the new user onboarding process simply leave the "I am a DMDII member" check box unchecked, an e-mail askdmc@uilabs.org to request to be verified.

FAQs

The Frequently Asked Questions page has been updated to include more information about functionality that has been added to the site in addition to updated instructions on workflows. If you are having trouble doing something on the platform, this is the first place you'll want to look for answers. If you can not find an answer to your question(s) there or via the respective links, we've added a new live chat feature that connects users to our development team and helpdesk associates.

Contact Us

The Contact Us page has not changed much but just like the FAQs page, you now have the ability to live chat with developers and helpdesk associates to help troubleshoot to you you trouble shoot issues you may be experiencing.

Terms Service

The Terms of Service, both for General Users and for DMDII Members have been update. We recommend that all current users as well as new users read over these. Our Privacy Policy will soon be updated and view-able here on our public wiki as well as on our platform located in the footer (In the same location ).

Explore

Organizations List

The DMC as a platform attempts to make communication accross our membership base as well as interested organizations as simple, clean and frustration free as possible. To help with this, we've introduced a new page called Organizations. It is located under the Explore tab in the top menu and allows you to see all organizations that are either part of the DMDII network and all organizations that have signed up to be on the DMC. With this feature, users can visit organization profile pages, learn more about intersting companies, find skills they have as well as skills they find value in. Additionally you can find organizational contacts here as well. This is simply our way of making a very large network much more tightly knit.

Marketplace

Finally, the long awaited DMC Marketplace is up and operational. The marketplace is where users can go to find applications they want to run in their workspace. The application found in the marketplace during the Beta release are not necessarily Digital Manufacturing based but will give users a taste for what is to come soon. The marketplace is filled with demo applications in categories such as Physics, Fracture Mechanics, and much more. Try them out and let us know what you think.

Applications

As mentioned above, you can find applications in the marketplace and add them to a workspace to run them. During the Beta release, you can run all of our Demo applications for free. Demo applications that can be found in our marketplace come from many categories but are many considered solvers that use applications such as Excel, Matlab, Python and much more to solve complicated equations. But you don't have to worry about interacting with our applications as we've provided our users with a simple interface that simply asks for inputs variable such as numbers and strings, and file names. All the hard work is completed on our servers and you'll receive the answer/solution in the browser when the work has been completed.

After our main launch later this year, user will find many exponentially more complicated applications populated in our marketplace that will be based on Digital Manufacturing that can help manufacturers, OEMs, SMMs, SMEs, and suppliers work through difficult Digital Manufacturing problems that span across the digital thread. We'll also be unveiling application linking, where users will be able to run sets of applications together to help solve their manufacturing problems more quickly and efficiently.

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My Account

Basic Information

Create New Organization

During the DMC Alpha release, the entire DMDII Membership base was automatically added to the list of organizations, but we also allowed users not part of the DMDII Membership Base to add their organizations to the DMC but during the Beta release of the platform we will be limiting users to the set of organizations available at the time of launch. If your organization did not have a chance to create an account, do not despair as we have created an organization for non-DMDII members to join during this time called "Digital Manufacturing Commons."

Servers

Servers for DMC Administrators

The ability to add your own personal servers to our platform's infrastructure was a feature that was available in our Alpha release but during the Beta release is available only to DMC administrative accounts.. For this release, we are restructuring the platform to do this in a much clear way. Adding your own personal DOME server to our infrastructure allows one to run applications they've written on our website. We still plan to support this feature in our full launch later this year, so look out for this great feature in the coming months.

Digital Manufacturing Commons

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