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This week I would like to welcome a guest podcaster from SolidWorks Germany,  Markus Koechl, who not only brings us a great tip, but also brought us our very first German-language podcast last week!

Today Markus demonstrates how to use 3DVIA Composer to import CAD sub-assemblies and have them automatically and properly positioned relative to other sub-assemblies. This powerful ability allows massive assemblies -- along with multi-CAD assemblies -- to be broken up and easily imported into 3DVIA Composer. You may never have seen the full assembly before, or may not even have the full assembly at all, and now you can bring all of the data together into a high-performing 3DVIA Composer environment for repurposing into 2D and 3D documentation.

Markus also describes the "Project Mode" of 3DVIA Composer, and cites some of the benefits of using this mode. Many thanks to Markus for this excellent example!

If you have ideas, like these, for future 3DVIA Composer podcast episodes, please let us know!

 

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Our very first German post and podcast!

Diese Woche begrüße ich herzlich Markus Koechl von SolidWorks Deutschland, der uns mit seinem podcast nicht nur einen großartigen Beitrag, sondern auch den ersten Beitrag in deutscher Sprache zur Verfügung stellt!

Markus wird uns heute zeigen, wie man mit 3DVIA Composer CAD Sub-Assemblies importiert und sie automatisch und an der richtigen Stelle im Verhältnis zu anderen Unterbaugruppen positioniert. Damit können große Baugruppen, zusammen mit Multi CAD Assemblies, sehr leicht aufgeteilt und in 3DVIA Composer importiert werden. Vielleicht haben Sie die gesamte Baugruppe nie zuvor gesehen oder als Datensatz vorliegen gehabt; dennoch sind sie jetzt in der Lage alle einzelnen Daten in 3DVIA Composer in hoher Performance zusammenzubringen, um sie für 2D oder 3D Dokumentationen weiterzuverwenden.

Markus beschreibt auch den „Projekt Modus“ von 3DVIA Composer und zeigt dabei den wesentlichen Nutzen seiner Verwendung auf. Vielen Dank an Markus für dieses exzellente Beispiel!

Sollten Sie ähnliche Ideen für zukünftige 3DVIA Composer Podcast Beiträge haben, dann lassen Sie es uns bitte wissen!

 

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Recently, I received some user comments to several blog posts. Normally I strive for non-censorsed, authentic content. Unfortunately, this user insisted on making personal attacks at me as well as other rude comments that do not bear repetition.

Among the fluff, this user did manage to articulate a point, and here is the text:

All I read about is how everyone else is terrible and Seemage is great, but I don’t hear discussions about business value that you guys have delivered. You should really start taking the high road, as I know Seemage is a decent product but this kind of lame, baseless contempt for the competition is becoming a standing joke amongst my peers. For those of us looking to buy Seemage, it would help if I didn’t have to explain to my executives why your blog always sounds like you guys have your backs against the wall….Help a brother out!

So to "help the brother out", here is a recent email that I received from a customer, explaining why 3DVIA Composer (aka Seemage), is great:

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This week, Tod continues to build out his technical illustration that he started last week. He covers several options for ballooning the illustration, and then outputs the view to line art format.

Watch closely as he performs the following:

• Sets up the default balloon widthC
• Creates Bill Of Material id's for different levels of the assembly
• Creates BOM id's using part names and meta properties
• Controls the how the balloons are aligned
• Quickly changes the styling of the balloons
• Updates a view with his changes
• Outputs the view to an interactive line art (CGM4 or SVG) while controlling the desired line weights of outlines, silhouettes, and shadows

It takes Tod less then 5 minutes to cover these topics and generate a fully interactive technical illustration. And if that isn't fast enough, it would take him less than 30 seconds if he wasn't providing the instructions!

Now think about how much more productive your technical illustrators could be if they were using 3DVIA Composer...

 

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Yesterday, IBM formally announced that it will sell and support Dassault Systèmes V6 portfolio, including 3DVIA Composer. Check out the press release here.