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 Composer, your company can use 3D CAD data to automate the product documentation process—without modifying product designs.
Over the past decade, dramatic advances in 3D computer-aided design (CAD) technology have given designers and engineers powerful tools for designing, engineering, and manufacturing new products. Powerful CAD tools are helping engineers not only create and visualize innovative designs, but also shorten design cycles, accelerate time-to-market, reduce development costs, and improve product quality. For many manufacturing organizations, however, most benefits associated with implementing CAD technologies have involved processes that occur before production. As a result, product design and engineering primarily reap the advantages of CAD data. While 3D CAD has made designers and engineers more productive and efficient, the innate value in the CAD models they create often ends with the delivery of 2D drawings or printed materials to manufacturing.
