Technical communication
Ian Baxter: Employee Number Seventy Something
If you stroll by Ian Baxter’s office, a life-size Austin Powers cut-out peers out through the window, the blue leisure suit and the toothy grin awaiting anyone rounding the corner. When you walk in, you’re greeted by a red “Please Take
... ContinuedIntroducing The New SolidWorks Composer YouTube Channel!
SolidWorks Composer is an powerful, easy to use tool that can help you create all kinds of technical communications, assembly instructions, animations and more very quickly. To go along with all of the great features packed into SolidWorks Composer, we
... ContinuedThere’s got to be a better way of creating owner’s manuals
There got to be a better way of owner’s manual! Here we are: Universal Cycles, a mountain bike producer in U.K. They print a QR code on their bike body leading to a Youtube assembly instruction video created in 3DVIA Composer by repurposing their CAD models for technical communication.
... ContinuedCreating manufacturing jobs through innovation at Yaris
Creating jobs has been a hot topic these days in the weak global economy. Many answers are out there, but innovation is a proven engine to the economy as shown by Apple who created or supported over 500,000 jobs for U.S.
... ContinuedFive Best Practices for Building Great Product Communication
If you handed a child instructions on how to tie their shoes, and do you think they could tie them? Could you? Read Cliff’s Five Best Practices for Building Great Product Communication.
... Continued3DVIA Composer V6R2012 Rendering Enhancements, Visual Effects and HTML Publishing Options
For this blog post, I'd like to take a deeper dive into 3DVIA Composer V6R2012 and show you how to use some of the great new rendering enhancements, visual effects and HTML publishing options mentioned in my previous post. In
... ContinuedCreate your best detailed views ever with the Digger!
Hi – this week I want to tell you about some more cool (but valuable) functionality in 3DVIA Composer – the Digger. The Digger is patented technology that allows you to quickly create sophisticated detailed views of your 3D models.
... ContinuedYou Saw it First Here – 3DVIA Composer V6R2012
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. 3DVIA Composer
... Continued3DVIA Composer Views & 3D Interactive Animations
One thing that continues to amaze me about 3DVIA Composer is how quickly you can create 3D interactive animations that can be used for training manufacturing personnel, assembly instructions, repair/maintenance procedures, etc. It's as simple as this: Import your 3D
... ContinuedI Hate Cool Technology!!!
Yes…it's true, but more appropriately I should say that I hate cool technology that's nothing more than cool. In other words, if technology does not add value in terms of time saved, decreased costs, reduced scrap, a healthier planet or even an improved quality of life, I'm just not that interested…but I don't really hate it 😉
And this might cause a dilemma for me because 3DVIA Composer is really, really cool. But even better, 3DVIA Composer is also extremely valuable. You might remember in my last blog I said how 3DVIA Composer was so easy to use even a plastics guy could do it? Well that's still true, and one of the things I'd like to tell you about this week is how easy it is to use 3DVIA Composer to create high resolution graphics for 2D-based assembly instructions, product guides and maintenance manuals.
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