Technical Publications - 3D Via Composer

Ever wondered how those illustrations you see in technical documentation or product manuals are produced?

Well you may be surprised to know they are probably ‘traced’ from screen grabs of the CAD screen, photos of the actual component, or drawn from scratch, certainly not high-tech!

Now with 3DVIA Composer you can produce high quality technical illustrations directly from your CAD data irrespective of its format and quickly keep it up to date as your design evolves.

What does this mean to me?

Quite simply this provides the ability to...

• Dramatically reduce your first run technical illustration production times.
• Reduce re-do work through design changes to a minimum.
• Reduce overall product development time by starting your illustration definition well before the design is even finished.
• Improve illustration accuracy and quality by producing a direct representation of the product data, not an interpretation.

In addition to these benefits, you also have the opportunity to reduce your illustration overhead costs, such as design office support or maybe even the need for a trained CAD seat.

Don’t forget, the CAD data needed to produce these images has already been produced, so why not use what is already there?

What can I actually do with the software?

		Illustration Production Produce silhouettes; control line weights, colouration and image quality; remove tangent lines (edges) and apply selective cross sectioning retrievable as one of many 'Profiles'
		Views Manipulate, hide, explode, apply transparency, annotate, markup and then capture each state of the model as any number of ‘View’s to then drive your illustration production.
		Annotation And Styles Quickly apply attribute driven or free form annotations, labels, arrows, panels, images and highlights from your set of custom ‘Style’s.
		BOM Information Introduce Bill Of Materials information by applying BOM ids, controlling their visibility in ‘View’s and producing associative BOM tables within your illustrations.
		Outputs Once produced, output your illustration as SVG, CGM Level 4, Postscript or to Tech Illustrator.
		Keep it up to date Remember that all your illustrations can be quickly and simply updated through associativity with the source CAD data. If the CAD data updates, you can choose to update also.
		Batch Production If you are happy with your illustrations, the 3DVIA Sync tools can update all your illustrations automatically every time a design update is detected.

• Assembly instructions • Customer service procedures • Marketing materials • User manuals • Field service repair manuals • Training materials • Web-based catalogs

3DVIA Composer lets you seamlessly incorporate design changes directly into the product documentation to create up-to-date, accurate printed and interactive materials.
Before 3DVIA Composer, all changes to product data required time-consuming manual revisions of documentation. By using 3DVIA Composer, your entire organization can automate and integrate the documentation process. This reduces the costs and improves the quality and consistency of all the documentation that you create throughout the lifecycle of each of your products.

Benefits:

• Eliminate expensive errors and speed the updating of all product documentation through automation.
• Get new products to market faster and gain a competitive advantage.
• Leverage existing 3D designs in multiple CAD formats to produce accurate, up-to-date product documentation.
• Enable technical and non-technical staff to collaborate effectively in the production of documentation.
• Improve customer service