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3D and Communication Strategy

3D and Communication Strategy
Oleg
Oleg
24 August, 2011 | 2 min for reading

Communication methods are interesting. These days lots of things are changing in this space. Internet, Web 2.0, Video communication converted some of our hottest dream to reality available in our everyday life. However, you can say – it is all about gadgets and toys. What modern CAD and PLM software can propose in the space of communication between engineers, designers and other people in manufacturing companies? 3D Mojo (the former blog of Seemage and now Dassault 3DVIA) brings the following topic on the table – 3DVIA 3D Communication Strategy Forum. So, what is this about? According to the 3DMojo teaser:

3DVIA will be hosting the 3D Communication Strategy Forum. This half-day event is designed to promote an open dialogue and exchange of ideas between 3DVIA product leaders and industry representatives who are interested in exploring the use of 3D product communications.

Open to all Dassault Systemes’ customers attending DSCC, the forum will provide attendees with a detailed 3DVIA brand and product strategy, along with an exclusive preview of upcoming 3DVIA mobile and cloud solutions. This will be followed by panel discussions on overcoming obstacles and establishing optimum workflows in enterprise 3D product communications.

The key term I read here is something called 3D Product Communication. Let me guess. One of the 3DVIA products – 3DVIA composer is well known as a tool capable to convert 3D CAD objects into something that supposed to be much easy transferred between people in an organization, especially for people having no specific CAD skills. Examples are easy coming from manufacturing, marketing, sales, etc.

The answer I didn’t find in this passage is how 3D communication will become ubiquitous and independent of a specific software and formats. XVL, 3D PDF, JT Open – these formats weren’t mentioned. Is it part of Dassault 3D Communication strategy? One of the best books about that I had a chance to read was – 3D Manufacturing Innovation. If you have some time, find this book and have a read. Disconnecting 3D data from heavy CAD systems and making this data available for all people in the organization is considered as the most important objective that can significantly improve product quality and communication between engineering and manufacturing.

What is my conclusion? Multiple 3D CAD is the reality of the majority of manufacturing organizations. How to make the most efficient 3D product communication between people using these systems and other people in an organization sounds like an important task. I hope to learn more about this later this year and share it with you. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

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