Check out this video to see everything listed above as well as much, much more and let me know what you think.The 3DVIA Community is a social network for 3D modelers, professionals and 3D enthusiasts.ģdvia composer is 3D technical communication software that lets users explain products using existing 3D data.

In short, you can better leverage your 3D CAD data across your enterprise to maximize the value from that data. With the new rendering enhancements and visual effects you can create stunning graphics for marketing collateral and sales tools that will make your products stand out from the competition. So what does all of this mean? Only that 3DVIA Composer V6R2012 gives you more power than ever to create clear and effective product documentation such as assembly instructions, product manuals and maintenance and repair guides.

Animation controls – new control button graphics make it easy to include familiar playback controls in your interactive animations.Digger rendering improvements – all rendering effects are now visible within the Digger zone.

Standard web templates – quickly create interactive web pages with sections for BOM, product & manufacturing information, meta properties and detail views.

Cutting plane vectorization improvements – vectorize multiple cutting planes to more easily view complex internal details.

Depth of field focal point – set this on a specific geometry actor to maintain focus on that actor no matter where it is moved on the screen, while the rest of the model is blurred.

Configurable ambient occlusion – allows you to accurately control ambient occlusion shading.

Shadows in standard lighting – enables the display of shadows in all lighting modes.

I think you'll get the idea from this brief listing of key features and enhancements: 3DVIA Composer V6R2012 is packed full of really cool features that not only add value to the process of developing and distributing product-related technical communications, but they're so easy to use, even a plastics guy can do it 😉 In a slight departure from my normal blogging style, I'd like to take this opportunity to make an important announcement – the release of 3DVIA Composer V6R2012…and you can tell all your friends you saw it first here.

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