Design communication used to be about telling a story - communicating the how's and why's of a design to multiple audiences. SolidWorks does a great job of providing all of the actors (no pun intended), but 3DVIA Composer makes the story come alive!

1. Storyboards with 3DVIA Composer Johnny Molica, Consultant Razorleaf Corporation

3. Razorleaf specializes in process analysis, implementation, training and support of enterprise technologies including Design Automation (DA), Enterprise Portal (SharePoint), Product Data Management/Technical Data Management (PDM/TDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and Technical Publication/Online Communication (3DVIA ).

5. Design War Boards Using 3DVIA Composer to display sketch ideas “Napkin” sketches Display various ideas for review Using scanned images

7. Using Existing Models Ultimately we need a 3D model for 3DVIA Composer Reviewing all current models What information can we reuse from these models? Do we need to recreate all?

9. Resources 3DVIA Composer can read all types of CAD and modeling formats Which means that all types of web sites can be used to get 3D model content CAD models .SLDASM; SLDPRT .IGES; STEP .CATPart; .CATProduct .PRT; .ASM Design/Surface models .3DS .OBJ Vector images .SVG Raster images .JPG

11. Kit-Bashing Kit-bashing or model bashing is a practice whereby a new scale model is created by taking pieces out of commercial kits. These pieces may be added to a custom project or to another kit. Using existing model to recreate concepts and ideas The benefit of using 3DVIA Composer is the model doesn’t need to be a similar size to be used for kit-bashing

13. Capture change Geometry tab Actors can be scaled, updated and copied when the Assembly selection is turned off Assembly groups can also be copied using Ctrl+C and pasted using Ctrl+V or by using the right mouse button in the Assembly tab Using the Geometry Copy will return more predictable results than a Windows Copy and Paste Created a view for the change and creating visual changes Geometry update can be unpredictable when updating

15. Performance Using SMG files instead of reading in the entire CAD format Faster updates when changes are made Use the SMG files to create the main assembly SMG files can be created from within SolidWorks Creating Project files Using 3DVIA Sync to create Shattered file structures

16. Redesign concepts The ability to reference other sources can help get ideas across more clearly 3DVIA Composer does not need to have a complete model to develop and idea SMG file are read into existing file more quickly than importing from a CAD format file Updates more quickly than re-importingCAD data

18. Communication Communication with 3DVIA Composer can be done through: 3DVIA Composer Player Web browser Downloadable app from Apple Iphone/ipad

20. Telling the Story Once the designs have been reviewed and decided 3DVIA Composer has already created a design history and resource path for all the files A user can quickly go through the view images or review an animation to understand how the final product was generated The SMG files becomes a portfolio for the design

21. 3DVIA Composer animations

22. Questions?