Dassault Systèmes have recently announced the release of 3DVIA Composer.

The application is a useful tool in the product documentation publishing marketplace and provides technical illustrators with the ability to quickly produce product documentation associated with 3D CAD model data.

Various CAD systems are supported directly including SolidWorks, CATIA V4 and V5 and Pro Engineer. Supported file formats include STEP and IGES. The system can also be integrated with any PLM system using simple XML.

3DVIA Composer is available for Microsoft Windows platforms and will be initially supplied through Dassault Systèmes global network of resellers and partners. Early next year it will also be available through SolidWorks Resellers.

Find out more information from the web-site at

http://www.3dviacomposer.com

or

http://www.3dmojo.com/

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Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft have recently announced the release of a Technology Preview of Microsoft Virtual Earth - 3DVIA, a web-application which allows you to create 3D models, such as buildings and other structures and share them through Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Details about the technology preview and download link is available at

http://maps.live.com/Help/en-us/VE3DVIADownload.htm

Details and a download link for Virtual Earth is available at

http://maps.live.com/Help/en-us/View3DInstall.htm

A comprehensive set of tutorials are provided to help you get the most out of Virtual Earth - 3DVIA. To create a model you simply start with 2D shapes such as lines, rectangles and cirlces and pull these shapes into 3D boxes and cylinders, combining them to make the 3D models of houses or other buildings. Colours and textures can be applied to the models to achieve a more realistic finish.

When you’ve finished creating your model you can publish it to one of you Live Search Maps collections by simply using the publish button and signing in with your Windows Live ID.

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Have you always wanted to create your own virtual TV news program?

TVnima is an online 3D application that allows you to create a news style TV programme that can incorporate your own photos, videos and soundtrack.

http://www.tvnima.com/

Here’s a sample on You Tube, although the only one I could find is in French,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtlr–AdH4

The TVnima application has been made using the Virtools toolkit which is available as part of 3DVIA from Dassault Systèmes. Find out more about Virtools at

http://www.virtools.com/

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