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For those of you non-French-speakers who could not enjoy last week's radio interview with Bernard Charlès, here is a short video of an interview he gave to CNN -- this time in English. What is interesting in this video is how Bernard talks about the French software industry trying to find ways to take technology start-up companies and transform them into sustainable businesses. In case you have not been keeping track: before we were acquired by Dassault Systemes, Seemage was a tiny startup based in southern France. So we know what he's talking about, and we are one of the success stories -- thanks to our great founders, great leaders, superbly great developers, and great fellow employees across the company. And most importantly, thanks to our great customers!

Have you ever spent hours to create a complicated exploded view, with thrust lines and callouts, only to have to re-do it when engineering makes a change on you?

This week, Tod Cruikshank shows us how to quickly create exploded views for technical illustrations. While in animation mode, he uses an innovative set of 3DVIA Composer functions to complete his demonstration. In particular he:

• uses "associative paths" to create jagged thrust lines in one easy step;
• uses a combination of assembly motion and part motion to create those thrust lines;
• moves one part in an assembly, and then quickly applies that placement to other selected parts;
• creates convenient hot keys to further increase the pace of his work.

When I first saw this technique, I was blown away at how fast these illustrations can be created. I hope you are just as amazed when you watch this week's podcast. If you are looking to reduce your time to market, use 3DVIA Composer to speed up your technical illustration process!

 

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BFM : Les sagas du pouvoir 2008

Le rendez-vous incontournable des acteurs de l'économie et de la politique. L’émission propose des interviews sans concession d’hommes et de femmes qui font la Une de l’actualité. Écouter les Sagas du Pouvoir, c’est aussi prendre le temps de dialoguer avec des invités qu’ils soient hommes politiques, ou grands patrons.

Voici l'enregistrement de l'émission avec Bernard Charlès.

 

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Here is yet another in-depth demonstration of a 3DVIA Composer integration to ENOVIA SmarTeam. This time you will see 3DVIA Sync Integration, 3DVIA Composer, CATIA, and ENOVIA SmarTeam all comimg together to create a very robust environment for creating, managing, and updating 3D animated content.

The example will show how SmarTeam meta data can be integrated into the 3DVIA Composer content, how the 3DVIA Composer file can be managed and updated by SmarTeam, and how CATIA modifications to the product structure can be automatically propagated into 3DVIA Composer.

Thanks again to Evgeniy Fedotov for the great sample integration and video.

 

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Back in May, 3DVIA was featured in Time magazine. The article mainly talked about 3D coming to Web 2.0, and how 3DVIA.com had amassed over 15,000 users who have generated a lot of 3D content. 3DVIA.com offers several free tools to allow consumers the ability to create 3D content and to leverage that content in several ways. In particular:

Eventually, subscribers will be able to use the software to conceive and create their own online games. Already users can build models of the exteriors of their homes or other buildings and place them in real settings on Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

But that is only the tip of the iceberg… you can use 3DVIA to integrate with Facebook too. And now all that great content on 3DVIA.com can be used in 3DVIA Composer too. So you need a model for your 3DVIA Composer animation? Try searching on 3DVIA.com. What you want is not there and you don't have a CAD system to create a simple little 3D tool? Use 3DVIA Shape to create that model and then bring it into 3DVIA Composer.

Now with over 30,000 users and nearly 3,000 3D models available for free, 3DVIA.com gives 3DVIA Composer the ability to leverage even more 3D content than ever before.