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I found this article yesterday from Your Renewable News and thought I'd share it with you.

It mostly talks about the application of Dassault Systèmes software in a very sophisticated and experimental fusion energy devices called JET and its soon to be built ITER. Here's an explanation from the article about this really cool sustainable energy device:

JET (Joint European Torus), located at Culham, UK, is a an experimental fusion energy device in which, by creating temperatures greater than that of the sun (around 100 million degrees C) and applying magnetic confinement, fusion of atomic nuclei takes place. The next stage of fusion technology development has started with the building of ITER, which is eight times larger in volume than JET. ITER is one of the most challenging scientific experiments ever undertaken, leading initially to a trial generating station followed by full-scale generators, supplying fusion energy to the grid by the end of this century.

There is a mention of 3DVIA Composer too, where one of the suppliers (Oxford Technologies) explains how it has enabled more effective communication and  understanding of how complex systems interact, augmenting all of the production efficiencies they have gained by adopting DS software.

Overall, as a guy who studied sustainability in university, I think it's a pretty interesting application of technology, and I'm thrilled that we're a part of it!

Ever had the need to document something in 3D, but not had the data in electronic, 3D format? Do you wish there was a better way to work with that data without having to spend hours re-modeling it in CAD?

Creaform used an innovative hand held scanning approach to combine existing CAD and physical data into a solution to meet a very demanding timeline to produce interactive assembly instructions for an aircraft OEM.

Click here and go to Page 16 to check out the article in this month's digital edition of Design Product News.

Click here for a 3DVIA Composer review from Jason @ rocksolid on April 25, 2009. My favoriate quote from his post:

This tool is a must have if you create a lot of technical publications.

'nuff said!

Thanks to Jason for his great review.

Interesting editorial in the Military Embedded Systems Technology Feature, written by Jeff Covert. There is a 3DVIA Composer video sample in the side bar.

I like his introduction to the side bar:

Gone are the days of trial and error, along with expensive mistakes and long training periods inherent in using static data. For example, when the avionics module is redesigned, the changes are automatically updated in the training materials. That means zero rewrites, quality checks, or out-of-revision documentation. This completely efficient process is made possible by leveraging the data found inside your PLM system.

The rest of the article is also interseting, and covers several other use cases.

The connection of PLM to the product documentation offers one additional benefit: the ability to have a full impact analysis of a proposed part change. Imagine being able to fully understand the scope of that change all the way to the specific documents that will be affected, and then have a way to seamlessly and automatically drive the updates and revisions to those documents. This can also provide the full cost of that change (and not just the engineering cost). I believe that you will see more and more of this in the future.

ModernTech won top honors for selling the most 3DVIA Composer in North America for our SolidWorks channel. They received this sales award at SolidWorks World 2009.

So here's a shout out to the team @ ModernTech! Many thanks for all of your hard efforts in 2008, and here's to an even better 2009!