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cadalystlabsreview By Ron LaFon F or many, making 3D drawings in popular CAD and engineering applications is only the beginning of a process that involves using those drawings for other downstream purposes. Publishing 3D information — for in-house use, for customers, or for the Internet — is a requirement in today’s manufacturing and AEC work ﬂows. A broad range of applications target just such repurposing of design data. This Cadalyst Labs 3D publishing roundup looks at several currently available products designed for publishing and repurposing 3D designs. Three-dimensional CAD data can be repurposed in numerous ways. Your company might want to use its designs for training needs, for 3D parts catalogs you publish on the Internet, or for 3D progress reports to widely Bringing 3D Software into Perspective: A Side-by-Side Look Check out Cadalyst.com for a comprehensive table that compares the features of these 3D publishing programs, including detailed product specifications and performance data. scattered members of your design team. Whatever your particular needs, a broad and ever-growing array of software is available to make 3D publishing not only possible, but relatively easy. Because you’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and money on your designs, you’ll want to protect your intellectual property when those designs leave your firm, so most of the applications I examine in this roundup offer some means of preserving data integrity. The approach might be as simple as selecting which components of a design are included in the output, or it could include other mechanisms such as password protection. Cadalyst invited a variety of vendors to participate in this roundup, asking them to submit software options for publishing 3D CAD models. Several provided products to review, ranging from the relatively simple to the remarkThe image of the Super Street 38 motorcycle is courtesy of Right Hemisphere. Original CAD design work done by Mark van der Kwaak of www.dbbp.com. The motorcycle design was created using CATIA V5 and rendered using Right Hemisphere’s Deep Exploration 5.5 CAD Edition. Right Hemisphere’s Lars Olson applied materials and Realight to the CAD data in Deep Exploration prior to the rendering of the image. Art direction by Annie W. Leung. www.cadalyst.com cadalyst October 2008 www.cadalyst.com/1008-3D-table 18 http://www.Cadalyst.com http://www.dbbp.com http://www.cadalyst.com/1008-3D-table http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - October 2008 Contents Editor’s Window Cad Central SimCity for Real Designs Spring to Life — 3D Publishing Tools Make File Sharing as Easy as Opening a Book Xi MTower 2P64X — Dual Quad-Core Workstation ArchiCAD 12 — BIM Software Dell Precision M6300 — High-End Mobile Workstation Cad Manager Mcad Modeling Aec Insight Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Hot Tip Harry

Cadalyst - October 2008

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