Visualizing documents, 2D drawings and 3D models in an easy-to-use collaboration-enabled environment fact sheet www.siemens.com/plm
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Summary Teamcenter Visualization software enables enterprises to enhance their product lifecycle management (PLM) environment with a comprehensive family of visualization solutions. Product teams can use Teamcenter Visualization to communicate and express design intent more effectively, visualize product data in its entirety and perform lifecycle tasks within the context of an overall product definition. Teamcenter Visualization Base provides powerful 2D/3D visualization capabilities that enterprises can quickly deploy within their PLM environment to generate immediate return on investment.
Benefits Extends the value of your existing CAD investments by enabling knowledge users to visualize and leverage product data in standard 2D and 3D format even when this data was created using different authoring software Optimizes lifecycle efficiency and reduces IT burden by enabling your entire enterprise to share data without incurring cost, time and resource overhead associated with CAD systems and heavyweight CAD files Facilitates richer communication and exchange of intellectual assets throughout globally dispersed enterprises otherwise inhibited by geographic, organizational or technological boundaries Allows extended members of your enterprise such as sales and marketing organizations, allied partners, suppliers and customers to participate in your development process early and often without the cost, complexity or training typically associated with CAD systems
Leveraging intellectual assets throughout the
product lifecycle Teamcenter Visualization Base is an intuitive and easy-to-use solution that enables enterprise users to access documents, 2D drawings and 3D models in a single environment. Designed for nontechnical users and managers who do not have the time to learn complex software (such as a CAD system),Teamcenter Visualization Base can be mastered by new users within a few hours thereby enabling knowledge users to understand product concepts that were not easily communicated in the past. Teamcenter Visualization Base lets enterprises unlock product knowledge created across multiple disciplines and leverage these highly valuable intellectual assets throughout the entire product lifecycle. By providing users with access to an enterprises entire wealth of intellectual assets,Teamcenter Visualization Base enables users in one discipline to leverage knowledge created by other disciplines and apply these untapped assets when developing innovative new products and improving lifecycle processes. Teamcenter Visualization leadership Teamcenter Visualization has proven its credentials as the worlds leading visualization solution for more than a decade by providing unmatched performance and a solution portfolio of unsurpassed breadth. Teamcenter Visualization has generated substantial returns on investment for more than 900,000 users in more than 35,000 sites across 43 countries. As a result,Teamcenter Visualization not only provides your enterprise with the best visualization technology on the market today, but also enables you to collaborate with industry-leading companies around the world. JT Open program Teamcenter Visualization is built on the de facto standard JT visualization technology. JT is the worlds most widely-used data format for product visualization, collaboration and data sharing between PLM software applications and it is supported through an industry initiative known as The JT Open Program. The JT Open Program is an organization driven by global leaders in the PLM industry that have
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Features Ability to visualize virtually all 2D formats including PDF, BMP, GIF, JPG,TIFF, CGM, HPGL, IGES, DXF, DWF (6.0 and above) and DWG 2D navigation tools, including pan, zoom, rotate, flip, zoom drawing scale, zoom area, seek, fit all and multi-page navigation 2D markup tools, including markers, lines, shapes, text, insert image, rubber stamp and GD&T markup 2D measurement tools, including linear, radial and angular measurement 2D compare Basic 3D measurement and crosssectioning (approximate based on facets) Ability to export images to various formats, including JPG, PNG, BMP,TIFF and HPGL Ability to visualize multi-CAD assemblies in JT format from major CAD systems, including NX software, NX I-deas software, Catia, Pro/Engineer, Solid Edge software,AutoCAD, Autodesk, Inventor, CADDS and SolidWorks Ability to visualize product structure 3D navigation tools, including rotate, pan, zoom, fit all, zoom area and seek 2D and 3D navigator window Save session Peer-to-peer conferencing Integration with Teamcenter Enterprise,Teamcenter Engineering,Teamcenter Manufacturing and Teamcenter Community Windows and Unix support
adopted the JT format and advocate its use as a standard. The JT Open program, as the name implies, is open to commercial manufacturers, independent software vendors, academic institutions and even Siemens competitors who endeavor to champion the JT technology foundation, proliferate its usage and sustain its position as the industry standard for visualization, collaboration and knowledge exchange. Capabilities Teamcenter Visualization Base delivers a wide variety of functional capabilities, including: Visualization capabilities that enable users to easily visualize and examine documents, raster images, vector drawings and 3D models Advanced performance settings that allow users to visualize even the largest and most complex 3D models that cannot be viewed on conventional CAD systems Comprehensive 2D annotation tools that enable users to mark up documents and drawings with comments and other notations that clarify design intent while storing the markup layers separately in industry-standard CGM format to preserve the integrity of the original data GD&T markup tool that manufacturing engineers can use to annotate drawings with symbols that instruct designers in how to add GD&T information to a drawing Measurement functionalities that allow users to examine and analyze multiple aspects of 2D drawings Comparison tools that users can employ to examine different versions of 2D drawings, identify changes and visually determine the impact of given changes Save-session procedures that enable users to capture a work session (for example, at the end of the day) and rapidly resume the session at the users convenience (for example, at the start of new day) Real-time collaboration tools that users can leverage to host interactive online review sessions where design ideas are interactively viewed and shared among globally dispersed peers Robust security protections that apply user privileges (for example, assigned by Teamcenter Engineering and Teamcenter Enterprise) that determine which PLM users are allowed to save local copies of the product data and which users are entitled to modify this data under their PLM system of choice Scalable solution that grows with your enterprise The following Teamcenter Visualization service levels enable you to scale and extend the scope of your visualization solution to match the physical and functional growth of your enterprise. Teamcenter Visualization Base a powerful visualization solution that provides 2D and 3D visualization functionality, extensive 2D markup tools and 2D investigation tools, including measurement and comparison capabilities. Includes basic 3D viewing plus ability to visualize product structure. Teamcenter Visualization Standard an enterprise 2D/3D view and markup solution that provides advanced 3D visualization functionality, powerful 3D markup tools, 3D measurement and access to advanced product data including product manufacturing information (PMI). Teamcenter Visualization Professional a full-function design review tool with 3D investigation tools, including cross-section, 3D comparison and user-defined coordinate system capabilities that allow users to perform analysis on multi-CAD assemblies collaboratively without using a CAD system. Teamcenter Visualization Mockup a sophisticated digital mockup solution used to assemble a complete digital prototype, perform advanced analysis including static and dynamic clearance analysis on the whole product and detect issues early. Optional add-ons include, Clearance Database, Publish, Jack (ergonomics),VSA (tolerance analysis), Quality, Animation Creation and Path Planning. iSeries an easy to deploy and maintain web browser-based implementation of the Teamcenter Visualization Base, Standard and Professional service levels.
Contact Siemens PLM Software Americas 800 498 5351 Europe 44 (0) 1276 702000 Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333 www.siemens.com/plm 2008 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. All rights reserved. Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. Teamcenter, NX, Solid Edge,Tecnomatix, Parasolid, Femap, I-deas, JT, Velocity Series and Geolus are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other logos, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks used herein are the property of their respective holders. 2/08
