3DVIA Composer is a desktop content-creation system that enables the reuse of digital 3D data from CAD and other sources. 3DVIA Composer is easy-to-use and allows the quick and easy creation of assembly and dis-assembly procedures, technical illustrations, interactive 3D animations, training materials, marketing materials, sales tools, and more.
Highlights
• Based on a lightweight, open, XML-based architecture.
• Easy-to-use desktop product that allows users in sales, marketing, customer service, training, support, and manufacturing to create associated 2D and 3D product deliverables directly from digital product data – without requiring CAD knowledge or CAD training.
• Creates 3D interactive documents such as interactive assembly and service procedures.
• Creates high-resolution raster images including BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIF files.
• Produces 2D line art as SVG and CGM files with automatic hidden line and construction line removal.
• Adds annotations, labels, dimensions, arrows, images, and cutting planes that can be used in any way and format the user wishes.
• Controls visual consistency of content through the use of styles.
• Imports data from many 3D CAD systems and can be maintained in the file system or in any PLM system.
• Outputs industry-standard file formats, including PDF, HTML, AVI, and graphics formats like SVG and CGM.
• Lets you document a product while it is incomplete by letting you update all deliverables quickly and easily.
• Uses occlusion detection to find internal, non-visible parts on a single view, all views, or the animation timeline.
• Uses decimation to reduce the tessellation of selected parts to reduce the size of the .smg file.
Benefits
Before 3DVIA Composer, creating graphical content for product documentation was a costly, error-prone process that had to be repeated, usually from the start, for any product or process change. Now, by using 3DVIA Composer, users can:
• Deliver products more quickly to market
• Quickly and easily incorporate changes into their documentation images
• Reduce product documentation costs
• Improve manufacturing yield rates with 3D interactive assembly instructions
• Provide more comprehensive training materials by leveraging 3D information
• Improve customer service through delivery of crystal clear interactive documentation
• Produce product documentation content in parallel with the design of the product
• Reuse 3D product data in departments such as sales, marketing, customer service, training, support, and manufacturing
• Increase the value of 3D information while ensuring the creation of accurate, always current deliverables
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