SolidWorks UK: 19 November, 2008

3DVIA Composer is an authoring tool for creating 2D/3D images and 3D animations for technical publications, interactive product documentation such as assembly instructions, customer service procedures, marketing materials, user manuals, field service repair manuals, training materials and web-based catalogues.

In addition, 3DVIA Composer permits the creation of styles which can be applied to any content to ensure visual consistency. Animations including kinematics and reverse-kinematics as well as high-resolution image outputs including SVG and CGM files can be created easily. Producing 2D line art is quick and easy with 3DVIA Composer’s built-in technical illustration capabilities.

3DVIA Composer reads any standard 3D CAD data from SolidWorks and many other systems, and can create a highly compressed lightweight file format. 3DVIA Composer outputs many standard file formats, including Microsoft Office®, PDF, HTML, SVG, CGM and more, which permits users to integrate 3DVIA Composer deliverables into existing product documentation.

With 3DVia Composer, long-standing, expensive, manual methods of product publishing, like elaborate text documents, producing sketches from photographs and waiting for technical illustrations are a thing of the past.