Techno Babble

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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Dassault and Microsoft plan to compete with Google and create a 3D Data Warehouse.

Press Release:

Combining Microsoft’s geolocalisation technology with DS’s proven 3D modeling and realistic visualization know-how, this alliance will enable consumers to add an entirely new level of realism within Virtual Earth, providing an unrestricted freedom for creativity and innovation.

3DLive delivers a breakthrough lightweight 3D paradigm for on-line collaborative intelligence, leveraging enterprise 3D and PLM information. It provides a single immersive user interface where everyone across your enterprise can search, navigate, work and collaborate on any aspect of your PLM intellectual property (IP) to optimize decision making and accelerate business execution. It fully leverages existing DS applications and data, and is downloadable online.

All the details are available here … http://www.3ds.com/…/3dlive/overview/

3 configurations are available:

1. ENOVIA 3DLive (LIV)
2. CATIA 3DLive (LIC)
3. DELMIA 3DLive (LID)

Find out more detail from the attached brochure: 3dlive_brochure.pdf

Related links

• Watch videos and images galleries
• Experience 3DLive!
• Customers and analysts speak about 3DLive!

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Dassault recently announced the integration of NVIDIA CgFX technology into CATIA V5.

This allows designers using CATIA access to advanced visualization capabilities in 3D, creating a seamless engineering and design environment, to increase productivity and reduce product development costs.

Our customers need to be able to collect and visualize information from multiple sources, to make effective business decisions. Real-time 3D visualization allows our customers to act at any stage of a project and review products virtually. Before this required a physical prototype,” outlines Philippe Laufer, project coordination leader for CATIA Research & Development.

“CgFX in Catia V5 delivers advanced interactive rendering by using the workstation’s graphics processing unit (GPU),” explains Jeff Brown, general manager of NVIDIA Professional Solution Group. “With Cg integration, Dassault Systèmes delivers interactive rendering into the PLM environment”.