Category Archives: Technical illustration

3DVIA Composer helping DLP to help the disabled

This customer story was released on the solidworks.com website a couple of days ago. It’s about DLP Ltd., a UK-based company that specializes in manufacturing “barrier-free and low level access shower bases and specialist shower doors, enhancing independence, well-being and quality of life,” under the trade name AKW.

Along with using SolidWorks for their design, they are using 3DVIA Composer to more quickly create technical illustrations for installation manuals that get delivered around the world. How much more quickly? How about an 80% time savings! Pretty impressive!

According to DLP Technical Author Paul Smith:

3DVIA Composer allows us to export high quality technical line drawings for producing detailed installation instructions. By creating these technical views quickly and exporting them in a simple usable format, we have saved most of the time it had taken us to create views manually in SolidWorks.

AKW Mullen Shower Base

3DVIA Composer featured in Desktop Engineering

Desktop Engineering Online

SolidSmack blogger and Desktop Engineering contributor, Josh Mings, took 3DVIA Composer for a test drive and has written about it in the latest issue of Desktop Engineering online. Continue reading

3DVIA Composer at TEKOM 2008!

3DVIA Composer - tcworld

For three days between November 5th and 7th, 2008, Technical Communication was the center of attention at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden. 3DVIA was there, and it was a big success for us at this year’s tcworld conference. Continue reading

3DVIA Composer Erfolg auf der TEKOM 2008!

3DVIA Composer - tcworld

Wie jedes Jahr in Herbst war Wiesbaden mit der  Tekom Jahrestagung für drei Tage DAS Forum für Technische Kommunikation. Vom 5.-7. November 2008 hatten weit über 3000 Besucher die Möglichkeit, sich mit den neusten Trends in Sachen Dokumentation vertraut zu machen.

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Taira Promote Deploys 3DVIA Composer and 3DVIA Virtools

Taira Promote, a customer in Japan, is making great use of 3DVIA products to liberate 3D data out of engineering and into the hands of technical publications and training manuals. They are using 3DVIA Virtools and 3DVIA Composer to develop and launch their “i-manuals”. These are in-depth , interactive, and on-line technical manuals to communicate and simulate highly complicated concepts.

You can view the press release here.