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Ryan Foss was a guy with some ideas. He happened to share those ideas with some folks at Right Hemisphere, and now alleges that his ideas were actually stolen by them. He blogged about this on April 30, and you can read his story here.

It goes to show that you always need to watch your back, create contracts, look at the fine print,  and always beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing. This is especially true when implementing a new software system.

In their efforts to build a system that reuses 3D CAD and PLM data for the downstream user, Right Hemisphere has embedded the requirement for a server-based product. One that is necessary if you want the slightest chance of seeing any of the proposed benefits of their product. One that manages its own workflow, searching, and processing. One that must be connected to your other servers in a complex array of SQL and API scripting. One that is expensive and difficult to implement in a global environment. And, dare I say, one that is illogical.

Companies have heavily invested in PLM and ERP systems, data replication and redundancy, vaulting and revisioning, workflows, approvals, and many other IT systems. But then Right Hemisphere comes along, in their sheep's clothing, and talks about simplifying things for the non-engineers and gaining all sorts of wonderful benefits. But the wolf underneath is asking for these companies to invest in another disconnected set of servers and add even more complexity to their systems.

It just doesn't make sense. Any improvement you want to make in your downstream infrastructure should not require massive process changes, and should make use of existing systems. They say that logic is governed in the left hemisphere of the brain, something that seems to be missing with Right Hemisphere.

So don't be bitten by the wolf. 3DVIA Composer does not need a complex server solution to give you incredible productivity gains. Just ask our customers. And if you want to integrate the system into your existing environment, it can be done extremely quickly and can be setup to do exactly what you want it to do.

Go with the product that has the full brain working. Go with 3DVIA Composer.

I am pleased to announce that 3DVIA Composer can be seen at the upcoming ENOVIA Americas Customer Conference, May 6-9 in the Orlando World Center Marriott.

Please be sure to stop buy the Dassault Systèmes booth at the ENOVIA Americas Customer Conference. Also, on Tuesday, May 6 @ 2:30 pm, stop by the Solutions Theater for a 3DVIA Composer presentation.

Back in podcast episode #44, you saw how easy it was to create complicated motion paths using the simple technique of combining assembly movements with part movements.

Yesterday I was browsing the 3dmojo forum, and I found a very good question posted by 3DComposter (clever and humorous username, by the way!). I thought the answer to this question would make a perfect podcast episode -- how you can create a complicated motion path using very simple techniques.

Enjoy this podcast episode, and please feel free to continue posting questions to the forum. And if you have created any of your own interesting animation techniques, please feel free to share them with us by posting them directly into our forum under the "Share It" thread.

 

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Newsflash: 3DVIA Composer has been added to the breakout session grid at COE!

Chris Williams, the General Manager of 3DVIA Enterprise, will host an in-depth session titled Revolutionizing Design Communication: Creating Product Information with 3DVIA Composer. This presentation and discussion will begin on Tuesday, April 29 at 4:30 pm, as part of the “COE Briefing Center #1” track, in the Australia 3 room. This news is so late-breaking that the COE website has not yet been updated with this information.

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You may recall the Dewoitine D520 example that Laurent BEAUVAIS had created in 3DVIA Composer. Mr. BEAUVAIS had done a fantastic job of creating all of the views needed to show how to assemble the model plane -- and this podcast episode will show you how easy it is to reuse those views and build an animation from them.

3DVIA Composer is all about giving you many ways to reuse and leverage your content, so that you can get your job done more quickly than ever before.

 

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