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3DVIA Composer

Authoring software to create better product documentation content

3DVIA Composer is an authoring tool for creating 2D/3D images and 3D animations for technical publications, interactive product documentation such as assembly instructions, customer service procedures, marketing materials, user manuals, field service repair manuals, training materials and web-based catalogues.

 

 

In addition, 3DVIA Composer permits the creation of styles which can be applied to any content to ensure visual consistency. Animations including kinematics and reverse-kinematics as well as high-resolution image outputs including SVG and CGM files can be created easily. Producing 2D line art is quick and easy with 3DVIA Composer’s built-in technical illustration capabilities.

3DVIA Composer reads any standard 3D CAD data from SolidWorks and many other systems, and can create a highly compressed lightweight file format. 3DVIA Composer outputs many standard file formats, including Microsoft Office®, PDF, HTML, SVG, CGM and more, which permits users to integrate 3DVIA Composer deliverables into existing product documentation. Long-standing, expensive, manual methods of product publishing, like elaborate text documents, producing sketches from photographs and waiting for technical illustrations are a thing of the past.

 

3DVIA Composer Benefits

• Eliminate error-prone and costlier documentation processes involving human intervention and lots of rework to incorporate product design changes.
• Gain significant cost savings and competitive advantage by taking products faster to market.
• Leverage existing 3D design data (independent of CAD systems) to produce accurate and up-to-date product documentation.

 

3DVIA Composer Add-ons & Related Products

3DVIA Safe

3DVIA Safe allows users to control and manage access to their intellectual property in 3DVIA Composer-generated deliverables. With 3DVIA Safe, content creators can manage access control when playing content with 3DVIA Player and may also use patented technology to prevent copying or theft of the intellectual property.

3DVIA Sync

3DVIA Sync delivers XML-based associativity among 3DVIA Composer and your  engineering CAD data. With 3DVIA Sync, changes in metadata, geometry, or BOMs can be updated in 3DVIA Composer deliverables on the desktop, ensuring accurate and consistent information.

3DVIA Check

3DVIA Check makes product deliverables more useful by validating that the procedures can actually be performed in the real world. 3DVIA Check offers dynamic and static clash detection, allowing users to quickly qualify service and assembly procedures.

3DVIA Player

3DVIA Player, a free utility, allows content creators to distribute 3DVIA Composer content to any end-user. 3DVIA Player offers the same high performance as 3DVIA Composer. Much more than a simple viewer, 3DVIA Player makes it possible for content consumers to have a highly interactive experience with product deliverables, and can be embedded into Microsoft Office applications, HTML and PDF.