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CAD solid modelling software
News Release from: Cimmetry Systems | Subject: ERoom Viewer
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 November 2002
Over 200 Engineering and File Formats
Supported
Eroom Technology Delivers Autovue's Industry-leading Cad Visualization And Mark-up Capabilities To Digital Workplace Users
eRoom Technology, a leading provider of products and services for extended enterprise collaboration, and Cimmetry Systems, the leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, have announced the immediate availability of the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization Built upon Cimmetry Systems' award-winning AutoVue technologies, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides distributed product design teams with seamless Web browser access to technical product data from within their eRoom digital workplaces
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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From change order management to new product design and approval processes, team members can view, markup, print, and share technical drawings among peers, supply chain partners and customers, helping to significantly improve engineering design products and processes.
The thin-client eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides Web-based 2D / 3D CAD and EDA file viewing and markup of product data with support for more than 200 engineering and business file formats.
"An integral part of all new product development efforts is the geometric engineering data that is shared between functional groups, both inside an organisation and within client and supplier sites, to improve product quality and decision-making," said Jeffrey Beir, president and chief executive officer for eRoom Technology "The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization enables our customers to share engineering product data as part of a larger collaborative process, ushering in a new era of strategic decision-making based on easily accessible geometric data throughout the collaborative product development lifecycle".
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"We are delighted to provide our AutoVue Visualization and Collaboration technology to eRoom Technology," said Alain Danik, business development manager at Cimmetry.
"The eRoom solution's collaborative environment breaks through the geographic, temporal and departmental barriers that have traditionally stood between the various stakeholders involved in a product's development and maintenance cycle.
Combined with Cimmetry's market leading Visualization technology, eRoom digital workplaces provide an outstanding solution for a multitude of verticals including Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services and Government".
"Delivering innovative designs that are successful in a highly competitive merchandising environment requires close working relationships between functional groups that range from designers and artists to marketing professionals and manufacturers," said Mark McSwain, Director Business Systems and Data Warehousing for the William Carter Company, one of the oldest and largest branded marketers of premium infants' and children's apparel in the U.S.
"The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization will eliminate more costly and time-consuming methods of sharing and annotating design concepts across these functional groups, enabling us to reduce times-to-market and significantly enhance our existing eRoom digital workplace environment.
From engineering to manufacturing to project management applications, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides users with a reliable and secure means of sharing engineering data across the extended enterprise.
With the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization, cross-functional teams can exploit a single uniform interface to natively view, print and markup a wide range of CAD formats, without the need for authoring applications.
The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides users with access to a wide variety of CAD visualization services, such as the ability to pan, zoom, spin, rotate or transform engineering drawings, view cross-sections of manufacturing parts or assemblies, access precision measurement tools, manipulate product components, manage external referenced files, or mark-up and annotate technical drawings in a collaborative setting.
Accessed through new menu choices within the eRoom digital workplace solution, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization exploits the eRoom solution's collaborative infrastructure to provide users with sophisticated access control and version tracking capabilities, e-mail notification and alert functionality, approval process support, and real-time meeting capabilities.
The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides a thin-client visualization and collaboration solution that supports over 200 native geometric and office file formats directly in a Web browser, without requiring the authoring applications.
Formats supported include 2D CAD documents (AutoCAD, Microstation), 3D assemblies and parts (Pro/E, CATIA, SolidWorks, Unigraphics), EDA formats (Gerber, ODB++), and office documents (MS Office, Adobe, Visio, TIFF).
Four versions of the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization are available to customers, offering capabilities ranging from 2D view-only to comprehensive 2D/3D view and annotate CAD file support.
In this way, enterprise customers can easily match their specific organisational requirements to the eRoomViewer for CAD Visualization.
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