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SolidWorks Products: SolidWorks 3DVIA Composer
The Concept of SolidWorks 3DVIA Composer
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What is 3DVIA Composer?3DVIA Composer is a Visual Product Communication tool that leverages your existing CAD and transforms it into a magnitude of publications. Imagine having the ability to start all your documentation while your product is still undergoing design! 3DVIA Composer will change forever the way you create, update and distribute rich product communications. By reusing digital product definition data including 3D design data and bills-of-material information, 3DVIA Composer revolutionizes the product documentation process for enterprises of all sizes. You spend a lot of time making 3D models; get the most out of your efforts. With 3DVIA Composer the possibilities are limitless and the user interface is designed to be operated by anyone. By leveraging the power of 3D, you can provide your customers, partners, and stakeholders with more clear, easily understandable product communications that significantly improve their ability to understand and retain complex information. |
Interactive Deliverables
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Online Part Manual (Internet Explorer required) Regardless if you need part manuals or maintenance manuals for internal or external purposes 3Dvia Composer will leverage your exciting CAD data and give you the power to create streamlined HTLM Vector based technical manuals with interactive BOM’s, hyper linking to any document and interactive animated 3D models. |
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Assembly Instructions (Internet Explorer required) |
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Interactive Rotate-able Animations (Internet Explorer required) Videos and animations are nice, but wouldn’t it be nice to have an animation that you can rotate, zoom and dissect at any time. Now you can, the rules of static animations are broken! |
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Customizable Product Websites (Internet Explorer required) Believe it or not but with 3Dvia Composer it’s possible! With 3Dvia Composer you can give your customers complete control or a multitude of pre-selected options and allow then to fully customize their purchase using a friendly 3D interactive interface. |
Static Deliverables
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Assembly Instructions Need to print out your documentation? No problem! 3Dvia Composer is compatible with all technical writing software while still keeping an associative link back to the original CAD data. 3Dvia Composer is capable of embedding 3D interactive models straight into a PDF or export high resolution raster images which are then linked into any document of your choosing. |
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Video Animations Sometimes a controlled animation is required, 3Dvia Composer offers just that. Using Composers fully automated or intuitive timeline based interface anyone can now create video animations. |
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Technical Illustrations Raster or Vector based illustrations allow anyone to create very high quality technical illustration for the use on the web, printed material or for internal operations. |
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High Resolution Images 3Dvia Composer’s super fast rendering engine is cutting-edge. Renderings literally take fraction of seconds compared to minutes or even hours with comparable rendering packages. |
 The 3DVIA Composer Concept |
 3DVIA Composer First Look Video Demo |
 Detailed Fly-Through Video using 3Dvia Composer |
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 Who's Using 3DVIA Composer? |
Datasheets
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3DVIA Composer Recognize 3D as an important virtual asset and put it to work for your organization. With 3DVIA Composer™, individuals in manufacturing, technical publications, marketing, and training are able to repurpose 3D data to create accurate graphics and interactive content early in the design process. |
Case Studies
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Case Study: OMAX Ranked as one of the top U.S. companies for manufacturing precision abrasive waterjet machining equipment, OMAX is utilizing 3DVIA Composer to create technical documentation with less equipment and personnel. |
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Case Study: Kvichak Marine Recognized as a worldwide leader in the design and construction of high quality, hardworking aluminum vessels, Kvichak Marine is using 3DVIA Composer to integrate content from SolidWorks with their existing ERP system to create a seamless Flow through design and production. |
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Case Study: LeMond Fitness As the First American to win the Tour de France, Greg LeMond transformed the world of cycling with his dedication, enthusiasm and innovation. With 3DVIA Composer LeMond Fitness is now transforming their technical documentation proficiency to unheard of levels with over an 80% increase in time savings when creating and updating their documentation. |
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Case Study: AREVA Ranked #1 in the global nuclear power industry, AREVA is using 3DVIA Composer to utilize their 3D data to graphically show, with animations, what their customers are receiving. |
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Case Study: Azure A world leader in the development and production of hybrid electric and electric commercial vehicles AZD successfully moved forward using the high quality images created by 3DVIA Composer in their marketing content. Leveraging the 3D data allowed AZD to create views and images that were previously considered impossible to create with photographs. |
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Case Study: Unifiller Unifiller is the world leader in the baking depositing and cake building technology uses 3DVIA Composer to make high quality work instructions faster and easier than ever before. |
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Case Study: Brayton Brayton Energy is a leading developer of innovative energy applications that combine abundant renewable fuels with a gas turbine – the technology used to power jet aircraft engines. By selecting SolidWorks Premium 3D CAD sofware and 3DVIA Composer documentation software, Brayton Energy has been able to maintain its edge as an innovator in gas turbine technology. |
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Case Study: Cardiovascular Systems Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI), is revolutionizing vascular disease treatments with sophisticated, high-tech devices that doctors use to treat patients who do not respond well to traditional therapies, such as angioplasty. By adding 3DVIA Composer software to its SolidWorks product development solution, Cardiovascular Systems has improved the effectiveness of its assembly instructions and sales training materials. |
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Case Study: Cardiovascular Systems Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) is revolutionizing the treatment of vascular disease through the development of a disposable, diamond-coated catheter-based device. Utilizing the principle of centrifugal force, CSI’s device orbits the interior wall of the artery at speeds of 200,000 revolutions per minute and grinds away up to 90 percent of the plaque creating the obstruction – a procedure known as orbital atherectomy. A new version of the Diamondback 360® OAD System, which is cleared by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in limb arteries, will begin clinical trials for the treatment of coronary artery disease in 2010. |
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Case Study: KaVo For more than 100 years, KaVo has provided top quality, innovative technology and equipment to dentists and dental technicians. With more than 3,300 employees in over 21 countries around the world, the company is one of the recognized leaders in the global dental marketplace thanks to a legacy of introducing innovative, high-tech equipment, including chairs, cabinets, imaging systems, laboratory equipment, diagnostics, lasers, instruments, and more. |
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Case Study: KaVo As part of its ongoing program of continuous improvements, KaVo wanted to increase the value and usability of its technical documentation for product assembly. Engineers were creating assembly drawings from KaVo’s 3D CATIA models and converting them to PDF files for use by workers in production. But information on the PDFs was not detailed enough to ensure that all aspects for high quality assembly were detected fast enough and without further assistance from the engineering departments. |
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Case Study: 3DMP 3DMP (3D Marketing & Production) is a recently formed company in France that specializes in multimedia and audiovisual tools. Part of Master Image, specialists in corporate branding and creators of documentaries, publicity for television, and corporate films, 3DMP provides services to marketing and communication teams of companies that need expertise in 3D digital imaging and animations. |
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Case Study: Mustard Longline AS As the leader in automated longlining systems—with more than 90 percent of the world’s market share—Mustad Longline strives to offer reliable, innovative equipment to its customers.In 2000, management decided to evaluate whether a move from the AutoCAD® 2D design tools that Mustad engineers had used to a 3D CAD system would increase productivity and spur development. |
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Case Study: Zesar Winning new business in a global economy can be difficult for small, family-owned manufacturers like Zesar. The Turkish company competes in a highly competitive niche market: developing custom machinery for battery production. Zesar’s machines automate the production of batteries for both automotive and marine use. |
White Papers
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White Paper: Streamlining Product Documentation Across the Manufacturing Enterprise with 3DVIA Composer For many years, manufacturers simply had to accept more time delays and greater costs as they developed product documentation in multiple languages to support growing global markets. But today, product developers are gaining competitive advantage, saving time, and cutting costs with a new class of integrated software tools. With 3D authoring software like 3DVIA ComposerTM, your company can use 3D CAD data to automate the product documentation process— without modifying product designs. By addressing the changing nature of CAD data, this associative documentation tool seamlessly and effortlessly keeps your documentation up to date. |
3DVIA Composer Technical Documentation Training
3DVIA Composer (2 day)
Learn the fundamental skills and concepts to use 3DVIA Composer software to create 2D and 3D output from CAD design data. Discover how to create views such as vector line art and raster images. Explore creating animations that could be used for service/assembly procedures, marketing, training and more. It will be the best two days of training you will ever receive. Our customers have raved about this class.
Learn the fundamental skills and concepts to use 3DVIA Composer software to create 2D and 3D output from CAD design data. Discover how to create views such as vector line art and raster images. Explore creating animations that could be used for service/assembly procedures, marketing, training and more. It will be the best two days of training you will ever receive. Our customers have raved about this class.
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