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by Emily-Sue Sloane, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 4:45:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Software from Seemage forges tighter link between design and process engineers; users can combine 3D product designs with ERP and PLM system data to create documentation. |
| Keywords: | Design collaboration, product design, CAD exchange, file markup, Seemage, CAD independent, downstream CAD, computer-aided design, 3D CAD, collaborative technology, design changes, CAD to ERP |
Seemage Inc. this week announced the 4.2 release of its design collaboration platform, which enables a wide range of users to view, mark up, and create content from shared 3D and other CAD files. Non-CAD users now can combine 3D CAD information with data, such as bills of material (BOMs), from their ERP systems to generate technical illustrations, animations, marketing materials, or service and support documentation. The Seemage system, which is XML-based and CAD architecture-agnostic, gives manufacturing engineers the tools to write manufacturing procedures and assembly/disassembly instructions from digital designs, rather than physical prototypes, explained Chris Williams, Seemage CEO, in an interview with Managing Automation. All the documentation generated in the Seemage 4.2 is automatically updated whenever the digital product definition changes. The release offers a slew of additional new features. Version 4.2 includes a ProductGrabber that lets manufacturers test product variations by combining saved configurations. A "quick search" function has been extended to all Seemage authoring and viewing tools, including the free Seemage Player. And users can now transfer Seemage-created 2D content directly into Tech Illustrator format to assure compliance with commercial and government standards, such as S1000D, ATA iSPEC2200, and WebCGM 2.0. In addition, the company says, BOM information in Seemage 4.2 dynamically changes based on the active product definition. This tells the product assembler what components have been used, what components are used in the current assembly step, and what components remain to be completed. [Click to continue] |
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