Integration made easy

The first thing to note is that 3DViewStation can be integrated with any PLM system. It is the perfect PLM CAD viewer. Systems into which 3DviewStation has already been integrated include Enovia SmarTeam and 3DExperience platform from Dassault Systemes, TeamCenter and Active Workspace from Siemens Digital Industries, CIM Database from Contact Software, Aras Innovator, ProCAD ProFile, Infor Descrete, Cassini PLM and SAP DVS & CAD-Desktop. The integrations range from classic viewing, redline/markup, change management to CAD data analysis.

First of all, as an advanced PLM CAD viewer, 3DViewStation offers more than 180 functionalities, far more than typical viewers usually offer. We offer functions for navigating and inspecting complex assemblies, measuring, dimensioning and analyzing CAD data, redline and markup for change requests or comparison from within the PLM system. Because 3DViewStation is very fast on the one hand and can handle extremely large amounts of data on the other, visualization can now also be used to define or isolate a subset within a complex assembly in the viewer to be subsequently processed in a CAD session.  This avoids a typical limitation of CAD systems, which are often not able to load a complete product.

The 3DViewStation provides the 3D graphics for product configurators, also called CPQ (Cost Price Quote) solution e.g. for DESEC at Deutz, Tacton at Fläkt, and Valtech at DAF. But there are also other configuration management solutions, such as our customer Leonardo with Aras Innovator (PLM) or Kostal with CIM Database (PLM), where 3DViewStation is used as a dynamic 3D viewer. Simple solutions rely on a so-called 150% model, which is more or less reduced by predefined configuration matix, objects are shown or hidden. Far more sophisticated is the completely dynamic visualization in real time, depending on the action of a user. The necessary 3D objects - parts or components - are loaded and placed, unused objects are unloaded. On the one hand, this is done to keep the amount of data within limits, on the other hand, if the number of variants is so high that one cannot or does not want to map all possible combinations in a matrix in advance. Configuration solutions with good 3D graphics can also be found in layouting solutions for plants, such as the LeegooBuilder from EAS-Solutions. Here, plant components can be selected interactively and placed in such a way that they snap into place at specific locations.

Many Service Lifecycle Management (SLMS), After Sales, MRO (Maintenance Repair Overhaul) applications today still do not have 3D graphics, unlike systems such as Kisters LCAM or Cimpa iSLM, which use 3DViewStation. Certainly, the organization and planning of maintenance tasks and resources is a very important part of such a solution. However, in the execution phase, clear instructions with preferably less text and more 2D or 3D graphics are useful for the worker on site. When the viewer, such as 3DViewStation, provides links from 3D parts or components to reports, instructions or into the spare parts system, these are clear advantages that lead to greater user acceptance, productivity and efficiency.

Quality assurance solutions such as Kisters FastQ at DLR, collaboration and project management solutions, also for the construction industry (e.g. EPLASS) and spare parts solutions (e.g. Quanos CatalogCreator), long-term archiving solutions (LTA, LOTAR) for 2D drawings and 3D CAD data (e.g. ImageMaster from T-Systems), but also DMS, CMS, MES and ERP systems.

There are customers who operate the 3DViewStation as a graphical component for CAD data in the human-machine interface (HMI). The 3DViewStation WebViewer is the ideal graphics engine for service applications, which not only alerts the technicians but also shows them immediately in the 3D CAD model where exactly the problem exists in the machine. With the as-maintained data on board the machine, you have everything in the right place to query current status or historical data, to perform maintenance, troubleshoot problems or order spare parts.