Technical Documentation
SOLIDWORKS Composer
Effortlessly generate step-by-step assembly manuals, complex technical animations, and detailed vector and raster images directly from your CAD data.
SOLIDWORKS Composer is the ideal solution for creating high-impact interactive 3D content and technical documentation. Improve efficiency, ensure clarity, and streamline your technical documentation process.
Key Benefits
What's Included?
SOLIDWORKS Composer Use Cases
Assembly
Whether internal to your company or outwardly facing to your customers, assembly/disassembly instructions for a product will usually be required. With Composer, it is easy to generate these instructions with simple images to guide the reader through each step with clarity.
Manufacturing
It is important to provide as clear instruction as possible when working in a manufacturing environment. An equipment operator, for example, will often have complex tasks to perform in a potentially chaotic environment. Composer can solve this again with simplified illustrations to keep the operator’s attention where it is needed.
Technical Documentation
Technical illustrators will understand the pain of having to develop instructions for a design that has potential to change. Depending on the method used to create the illustrations, there could be an extensive amount of rework required. With Composer, this is not an issue as the technical illustrators can work with the confidence that they’ll be able to update the model without losing their existing progress.
Training
Composer’s ability to produce animations in the form of video and interactively, through Composer player, means that complex and/or repetitive tasks can be easily illustrated. Whether it is for new employees or getting everyone up to speed on a new product line, you’ll get everyone trained faster than ever with self-guided training content made possible with Composer.
Post-Sales
Replacement part manuals and self-service instructions are common to be shipped with a new product. If they aren’t physically included with the product, this type of documentation will usually exist online. Either way, it can be laborious to develop this technical content and it is vital that your customer can make sense of the documentation.
Marketing
Illustrations created with Composer don’t just have to serve a technical need. By using stylised rendering styles and materials, Composer is more than capable of generating attractive imagery suitable for marketing collateral. You can include reflections, shadows, and realistic materials to provide a look suitable for the cover images of your documents or media for your website.
Sales
Depending on the product, it may not be possible for a sales team to show the physical product, or even just photographs, to prospects. If it is impractical or impossible to convey the design in person, your best option is to leverage a digital medium. Composer delivers this ability in many ways. Prospects will appreciate the clear illustrations, detailed animations and rich interactive content made possible with Composer.
Quotation
Pre-sales engagements can make or break a relationship with a prospect and delivering the right amount of information is key. With Composer, you can include beautiful graphics in your quotes to balance out the technical information that can clutter up a document. Your quote will certainly stand out with Composer’s professional level illustrations distinguishing your company from the competition.
Unlock Creativity and Efficiency
SOLIDWORKS Composer transforms technical communication, allowing you to easily generate stunning visual content directly from your 3D CAD data.
Help your team to create flawless documentation, significantly enhance product understanding for every user, and dramatically accelerate time to market.
Interactive Examples
SOLIDWORKS Composer can create interactive documentation directly from your CAD files. The interactive BOM and 3D model below is a simple example, click the thumbnails below to open more thorough examples.
We obviously develop new products at an incredibly fast rate and that means that developing the manuals and the the spec sheets alongside that is something that before bringing in SOLIDWORKS Composer took quite a lot of time.
...Composer has filled a gap there, which means that as we're developing the product in CAD in the in the background Composer is taking care of a lot of the hard work.
It's great for our own products we can have the manuals generate themselves almost autonomously in the background with a little bit of input from us.
Jordan Van Flute
CEO & Co-Founder of Inovus Medical Ltd.