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Tools for creating and publishing 3D content and interactive visualizations for presentations, training, and communications.

3DVIA/SOLIDWORKS COMPOSITOR

CREATE, UPDATE, AND DISTRIBUTE RICH PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION

Preparing product documentation, whether it's manufacturing work instructions, assembly instructions, or maintenance manuals, can be a labor-intensive and error-prone process, often compounded by translation into multiple languages to support a global market. By reusing digital product definition data, including 3D design data and specification information, we can revolutionize the product documentation process for businesses of all sizes.

GEO-MENTOR's digital product documentation solutions are based on 3DVIA Composer software technology.

With its easy-to-use desktop content creation system, 3DVIA Composer effectively automates processes that are critical to improving quality and reducing the time required to create high-quality documentation.

Leverage 3D capabilities and quickly repurpose existing 3D design data to create high-quality results, including:

  • Documentation
  • Animations
  • Technical illustrations
  • 3D experiences

3DVIA Composer is technical communication software that allows you to clearly explain products using existing 3D CAD data. Among the new enhancements in 3DVIA Composer R2014x:

  • Windows 8 support with gestures
  • Compatibility, ACIS R23, Pro/E Creo 2.0, SolidWorks 2014 support
  • New browser-based user support portal
  • Viewport scaling factor property
  • Back boundary property for polylines
  • PMI enhancements
  • Polyline enhancements
  • Numerous property changes and additions

Before 3DVIA Composer came along, the production process was expensive, error-prone, and usually had to be repeated from scratch for any product change. Now, with 3DVIA Composer, companies can quickly and easily automate their production processes, reducing costs and improving quality. 3DVIA Composer allows product documentation to be produced simultaneously with product design.

3DVIA Composer is designed for universal access to product information. With 3DVIA Composer, you can deliver product information in the right form to the right person at the right time, increasing the value of your company's investments in CAD, PLM, ERP, and CRM increase to deliver greater value. Thanks to 3DVIA Composer's XML-based, CAD-independent architecture, products are delivered faster, with higher quality and at a lower cost. 3DVIA Composer users such as PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault F1, John Deere, Faurecia, Delphi, SNECMA, Alcatel Alenia Space, and Thales, are raising the bar for customer satisfaction with products created using 3DVIA Composer.

For many software users, virtualization is a key factor in improving productivity. 3DVIA Composers' capabilities allow you to access, manipulate, analyze, and publish product information. Reasoning based on verified and secure information and the rapid exchange of models and ideas between project participants throughout the product lifecycle are becoming a necessity.

3DVIA Composers' visualization tools simplify the inherent complexity of the product lifecycle by providing different perspectives and quickly filtering key information from the complete model. 3DVIA Composer allows participants to make and share all decisions based on factual data in context.

How 3DVIA Composer works

3DVIA Composer Importers allow you to read and convert all major CAD file formats into the internal 3DVIA Composer format: memo3D. This is done on a standard PC and does not require access to the original CAD software or special workstations. 3DVIA Composer Importers are fully automated and do not require any special CAD knowledge to operate.

Various parts of the model, such as geometry, product assembly structure, properties, and more, are saved with a very high degree of compression for use by the 3DVIA Composer system. Geometry is saved with a high degree of accuracy.

3DVIA Composer is a product designed to provide information about your product from the design office to the rest of your organization. Access to this information will allow you to reduce your product's time to market and improve support during operation.

3DVIA Composer simplifies the creation of outputs for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, .pdf, or HTML.

With 3DVIA Composer providing access to 3D design data, it is easy to create rich products for marketing and sales.

The XML-based 3DVIA Composer file format is the ideal repository for collaborative 3D workflows within and outside the enterprise. The 3DVIA Composer file format contains the 3D product structure, part geometry, and associated PLM data, including:

  • 3D annotations and dimensions
  • 3D views with exploded parts
  • Real-time 3D animation
  • 3D dynamic cutting planes

3DVIA Composer Sync ensures associativity with the underlying CAD model.

GEO-MENTOR's product development expertise, training and support services, and development and system integration capabilities will ensure you get the most out of these dynamic software tools.