3DMojo

So, first off I want to apologize to our regular readers and subscribers that we didn't post a podcast episode last Friday as is our habit. We had FTP server problems. We'll be back with some killer new episodes starting week after next (this is a holiday week in the US).

I was in France for the last two weeks working with our new colleagues to re-brand and re-package the former Seemage as 3DVIA Composer. That work has gone spectacularly. Our new name is just the beginning of what we intend to do to extend our vision of product information everyware in some fascinating ways.

In short, we have achieved escape velocity as an important part of DS's global efforts. And customers are already taking notice.

Consider this snippet of an email thread I saw the other day:

We have been able to stall an IsoDraw purchase and from the [removed customer name] presentation they have identified areas that IsoDraw does not address fully.

Our new DS reseller partners are helping us get the message out that 3DVIA Composer is the right solution for more and more companies.

So, if you were us, you'd feel like we had a lot more momentum than the "mere" 11.186 km/s you need to simply escape Earth's orbit.

Today's podcast episode is a little different. Instead of focusing on Seemage features, we are presenting a sales success story in both French and English.

To get this breaking story, Garth Coleman interviewed Fabrice of Axemble in France via Skype, one of the EU's largest SolidWorks resellers. As you will hear, Fabrice tells the amazing story of how an important customer was so excited about Seemage, they purchased it on the first sales call.

Now I realize some of you may think this is pure propaganda. (Though when, I ask you, was the last time a PLM company posted such an authentic, unedited story? When we said we were going to continue to using the blog to be completely open about Seemage after our acquisition, we meant it.)

But in reality, this is a story about compelling technology...technology so compelling that customers respond to it instantly. Why? In a nutshell, it's because it can literally transform the publishing process, which until now has been nothing but a source of cost and delay.

So, enjoy listening to the story. Of course, we'd love your feedback.

 

 Seemage your iPod #51: “Cleo success story" (English version) [3:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (719)

I am writing this post from the Agora, or exhibit floor, at the European CATIA Forum (ECF).

Those of you with whom we've talked since we were acquired in October by Dassault Systèmes might have heard us use a new name for Seemage: 3DVIA Composer.

I've waited until now to publicly announce our new name because I didn't want to steal Bruno's and Chris's thunder in announcing the new name, which they did yesterday (Monday) to partners and today (Tuesday) to the world in the general session at ECF. (The very UGC-y photo above is a cell-phone photo of Bruno premiering the name for the first time in public.)

Needless to say, we're very excited about becoming part of 3DVIA, DS's newest brand. 3DVIA's mission is to extend 3D to new users and new applications, something that we believe is a direct match to the mission that Seemage set out to accomplish. And based on the reaction of the partners, customers and DS people I've been meeting and speaking to here at ECF, the opportunity for Composer to achieve this mission as part of 3DVIA is very real and very large.

While our name is new, it's likely that for a while, you'll still see Seemage creep into our language as we transition to our new name: 3DVIA Composer. And of course, it will take some time for the new name to show up in our branding and in the product itself.

Our new name symbolizes our expanded mission: to bring revolutionary, desktop technology to new users to enable them to reuse 3D and enterprise system data easily to create the most compelling product deliverables possible.

We welcome you to our next evolution.

This week's episode demonstrates an important capability in Seemage: application integration. In this video, you will notice that Seemage is being used to integrate 3D data with procedural information in a custom application. The application includes the business logic required to prevent users from making errors or skipping parts of the process. Notice also in the video how the XML architecture of Seemage improves the creation of these product procedures.

This video illustrates that when we talk about content authoring in Seemage, it is not limited to production of PDFs and Word documents, or even the planet's best product animations. It includes programmability. It's a pretty amazing capability of Seemage, and one customers are increasingly taking advantage of.

 

 Seemage podcast for CAD and PLM users, episode 48, Seemage application integration [3:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (801)

 

 Seemage podcast for CAD and PLM users, episode 48, Seemage application integration [3:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (438)

This week's podcast episode has three related and interesting things to see(mage).

First, Jonathan shows us how to hide parts. This is useful not only to reduce file size, but also to make it easier to work on create documentation for the specific function or part of the product desired.

Next, Jonathan shows us how to manually reduce the accuracy of the product data to secure the intellectual property contained in that digital data. While this can be useful, Seemage offers an even better way.

Jonathan demonstrates Seemage Secure3D technology to quickly and easily secure the IP while also displaying parts and assemblies correctly.

We hope you enjoy this video podcast episode and my thanks again to Jonathan Riondet for the recording.

 

 Seemage podcast for CAD and PLM users, episode 47, Seemage occlusion and Secure3D [4:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (706)

 

 Seemage podcast for CAD and PLM users, episode 47, Seemage occlusion and Secure3D [4:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (321)