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3D Warehouse Parade

I think 3D Warehouse becomes a hot topic. Number of 3D Content is growing. Yesterday I had chance to try out Autodesk Content 3D Warehouse BETA. So, finally, I got the sequence of the following products which are almost similar (or expected to be similar). Dassault Systems 3DVia Google 3D…

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PLM Alert: Google Image Swirl User Experience

Short alert on Google Labs Releasing Swirl. Google Image Swirl allows you to organize and search images. Official Google’s blog announcement is here. You can run Google Swirl from here. I think, this user experience can be kind of beneficial for engineers working on 3D and 2D drawings. Just my…

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3DLive, HD3D and demand for CAD/PDM immersivity

Few months ago, in this post, I had chance to discuss the future of immersive CAD and Data Management. Looking on the latest DE  article by Kenneth Wong, NX7 with HD3D: Where CAD Geometry and Lifecycle Data Mingle, I found it very interesting to couple it together with some of…

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Open Source Threat for CAD

Open Source and CAD. Do you think something is going on in this direction? I had chance to discuss Open Source topic several times in my previous posts. But, actually, I almost never took an angle of CAD and open source relationships. The following article drove my attention yesterday. What…

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3D Perspectives: Connect PLM with World Content

My new post on DS 3D Perspective Blog today. I’m sure you already had chance to see the new 3DVIA Mobile application, and  I’ll bet you find it really cool. However, all the discussions around mobile applications and 3D got me  thinking about a connection between two worlds created by…

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PLM Prompt: Future of 3D CAD in Touchable Holography

Interesting prompt today. What do you think about future of 3D? What will be real immesrsive 3D experience? We are doing 3D on the screen for the last 25 years and recently started to try touch screens. But what about touchable 3D? Take a look and enjoy this video. Do…

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PLM Prompt: Google Image Recognition and Technical Documentation in PLM

Interesting prompt today came out of Google’s US7,580,568 “Methods and Systems for Identifying an Image as a Representative Image for an Article”. Thanks, Steven Arnold for his blog post and Overflight service. Google’s patent gave me context to think about existing product IP in the organizations and this is related…

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PLM Prompt: 3D on the cloud thoughts

Short Prompt- what will take 3D on the cloud? I was reading interesting paper Pictures in the Cloud by Kenneth Wong. My conclusion is as following: 1. Traditional CAD will be transformed when move on the cloud. 2. Multiple 3D /CAD related services can be introduced in parallel with traditional CAD…

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How We can Tag 3D CAD?

In one of my previous post I discussed Tagging techniques and technologies. Historically PLM was very taxonomy and built on hierarchies nature. However, I think, in today’s world, we need to change approach, we are working with data. Tagging and Folksonomies comes to the play. So, an idea I want…

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