CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 January 2005
Product News
Lattice3D Launches New 3D Publishing Suite
Lattice3D announced the launch of a new suite of 3D Publishing applications that enhance manufacturers' abilities to use, share and repurpose 3D data across the enterprise. The new products, named Lattice3D Embed, Lattice3D Composer and Lattice3D Publisher, increase the ability of users to directly and immediately communicate complex processes, instructions and directions using 3D data.
Lattice3D applications exploit the XVL format developed by Lattice Group used by leading vendors and users such as NASA, Toyota and Dassault Systems. XVL enables the wide-spread use of large scale 3D data in a high fidelity compressed form. It typically provides 1/50 to 1/250 (better than 98%) compression in a loss-less format, which means that large 3D data files become small enough to easily handle on PC systems and can be sent via email or easily used on the Internet without loss of detail or visual fidelity.
Lattice3D's new suite is a set of highly interoperable XVL-based applications that create a very agile software ecosystem. Users have a choice of components they need for 3D Publishing now, or later as internal processes evolve.
Lattice3D Embed enables interactive 3D data to be manipulated and embedded in popular 2D document formats including Word, Powerpoint, Excel and HTML. The 3D data can be rotated, zoomed, cross-sectioned and manipulated for greater communication of information and immediate comprehension by its readers.
Lattice3D Composer creates 3D documents with linked and interactive 3D data, 2D images, parts lists, assembly structures and any other structured data. Composer documents can include all these data types as well as markup text, fully cross referenced for collaborative problem-solving, process planning, training, design review, and other communication exchanges. Composer documents can also be embedded in popular 2D document formats including Word, Powerpoint, Excel and PDF, Microsoft Office and HTML.
Lattice3D Publisher makes publishing of intelligent 3D information into light weight, fast loading 3D web pages as simple as selecting a template and clicking a button. The power of the Internet combined with Lattice3D Publisher means that ideas, concepts, assembly and maintenance instructions, and customer help instructions can be conveyed quickly and intuitively with 3D.
"It's clear that 3D data enables better and faster comprehension, better retention, better communication and better collaboration." said Alexander Garcia-Tobar, CEO, Lattice3D. "Lattice3D technology facilitates communication when words alone don't do an adequate job, or when efficiencies can be gained by using having 3D everywhere."
All the new products are advances from previous software applications by Lattice3D. Across-the-board all the new products benefit from the following enhancements:
• Increased Publishing breadth -Composer and Embed can all output to XVL, MS Office Documents (e.g. Word, Excel, Powerpoint), PDF, HTML and Lattice3D's own lightweight 3D document format. Publisher outputs web pages in HTML.
• Increased Interoperability -Lattice3D's applications, rather than being a single large unwieldy application, are now separate but highly interoperable XML-based applications.
• New User Interface -Though very recognizable to existing users the new user interface offers less clicks to get many/most jobs done and contains modern toolbars and property panels.
• Holistic approach to publishing -The application suite has been extended to provide a seamless experience in communication and publishing from simple embedding to template creation, to mass web publishing.
• Advanced praise for Lattice3D's suite of products include: "All of the applications are easy to use, providing a powerful set of tools that create complex documents simply." said Rick Mushing, president, Midwest Engineering Design Systems, Inc;
The new Lattice3D Publishing applications are now available from Lattice3D. More information can be located at http://www.lattice3d.com or by calling: 650-623-0890.
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