Theorem’s latest Visualize 3D solution for SolidWorks-JT supports SolidWorks 2018

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our Visualize 3D SolidWorks-JT product.

V21.3 supports SolidWorks 2016, 2017 and 2018 along with JT 10.

Features and enhancements in this release include the use of Save As from within SolidWorks to create JT output-providing the user with a consistent method of generating output from within SolidWorks.

Our Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications.

Using JT with additional 3D PMI data as part of a Model Based Definition process allows the user to reduce the overall design costs associated with the creation of conventional 2D drawings.

Sharing SolidWorks data using the neutral ISO standard JT format allows organisations to protect the intellectual property of their designs while allowing users to explore the shape, and more easily understand the 3D definition. The IP protection can be enhanced by restricting the JT representation to be tessellated data only.

Enabling SolidWorks users to create high quality JT files allows them to share JT data with their customers and suppliers, facilitating collaboration.

SolidWorks and JT data can now be further utilised in Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality by using our Visualization Experiences App for Digital Realities.

Our strategic partnerships with Dassault Systemes and Siemens ensures that there is parallel development between the latest releases of SolidWorks, JT, and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions for SolidWorks users wanting to create JT data.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

 

 

Theorem’s latest Multi-CAD supports CATIA V5 R28

Our V21.3 CATIA V5– Multi-CAD to JT product has been released with a number of new product features and enhancements, alongside general updates to improve stability and geometry quality.

Integrated within the CATIA V5 application V21.3 supports from CATIA V5-6R2015 to CATIA V5-6R2018, and all versions of JT, up to and including 10.0, providing the user with the highest levels of interoperability with JT file assemblies.

This CATIA V5 Multi-CAD to JT product is uni-directional product but can be packaged with Theorem’s JT to CATIA V5 Multi-CAD product to become a bi-directional translator.

New features and enhancements in V21.3 include:

• CATIA V5 transparency replicated in JT output-The benefit of maintaining an equivalent view of the CATIA V5 data in JT saves time and money that would otherwise be used to either support additional communication between CAD users and non CAD users, or alternatively increases costs of deploying expensive CAD licenses to downstream teams.
• Improvements to PMI/geometry cross highlighting in JT output-Having an ability to highlight specifically which pieces of geometry are related to which dimension ensures that the information is unambiguous, leading to a reduction in costly reworking’s of outputs when the information is misunderstood. Consequently potential costly quality issues are also avoided.
•  CATIA V5 Section Views defined within FTA Captures are now exported to the JT file- Having a capability of retaining these section views in the JT output again ensures that the person reviewing the information as a clear understanding of the definition. This all goes towards avoiding costly mistakes that occur when the information isn’t clearly understandable.

 

Our CATIA V5 Multi-CAD to JT Product is based upon the Dassault Systemes XCAD infrastructure, allowing CATIA V5 users to incorporate parts and assemblies from JT, directly within the CATIA environment and removing the need for external translators. The application checks geometry for errors and validates the integrity of the data as it comes into CATIA. The beauty of the Dassault Multi-CAD architecture is the interlinking of the CATIA data and non-native data.

Using Multi-CAD offers a greater level of security and protection as the link to the source data is a direct link, without the need to leave the application or use 3rd party external applications. This also removes any errors that can occur from working with potentially old and out of date data.

Our strategic partnerships with Dassault Systemes and Siemens  ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5, JT and Theorem’s Multi-CAD products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions to the CATIA V5 community.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s latest Visualize 3D Inventor to Creo View Adapter supports Inventor 2019

We are pleased to announce the release of our V21.3 Inventor to Creo View Visualize 3D adapter supporting Inventor 2017, 2018 and 2019, and up to and including Creo View 4.2.

This product has been developed using the Autodesk Inventor Development Environment and translates the latest Inventor data into the Creo View format. It can work with just Inventor View (a free application) needed to be installed, so a full license of Inventor is not required.

The Inventor to Creo View Adapter can also be integrated into a Windchill environment allowing Inventor managed data to be published and visualized on demand. As the Creo View data output is then synchronized with the Inventor source, an accurate up-to-date, version of the design is always available, therefore reducing costly errors.

Our Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications and support the translation of assembly structure, geometry and attributes.

Our strategic partnerships with Autodesk and PTC  ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of Inventor, Creo View and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions to the Inventor and PTC communities.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

3D PDF- Making engineering data accessible

3D PDF is the ideal choice when needing to share, exchange and consume CAD and PLM assets outside of the traditional CAD packages.

The standard features of an Adobe 3D PDF document make for the perfect interactive viewer. It is lightweight, portable and secure. Using Theorem’s Publish 3D solution makes it easier for CAD and PLM assets to be shared, exchanged, and consumed outside of any source application, without requiring any specialist knowledge.

With such comprehensive features available as standard, the possibility to enhance a 3D PDF document further is possible by using Theorem’s Publish 3D solution to create interactive documentation using pre-defined templates combined with added intelligence.

Each document type has its own target audience and function, meaning content can be tailored to suit. The same information can be displayed and filtered in very different ways, catering for all aspects of an organization and many different use cases including:

• Works Instructions
• Request For Quotations (RFQ)
• Bill of Materials (BOM)
• Inspection Reports
• Purchase Orders
• Engineering Change Requests
• Sales and Marketing brochures

The use of 3D PDF means that anybody can now consume, view and mark-up 3D data with Adobe’s ubiquitous Reader, eliminating the need to install specialist viewing software or to be trained to use a special tool.

3D PDF is a great way of leveraging CAD and PLM assets. It reduces costs and time to manufacture, improves quality by eliminating potential errors due to transcription and interpretation of drawing data, it safeguards intellectual property and it can also save on expensive CAD licenses.

Designed for organisations of all sizes, Theorem’s Publish 3D solutions are based on the original Adobe® and vendor specific technology, therefore are fully compatible with Acrobat and native CAD systems enabling users to take the intelligence contained within a 3D model directly in to the world of PDF.

Want to find out how 3D PDF could help you?

Theorem are hosting a webinar to discuss the use cases for leveraging existing CAD and PLM assets for use by Manufacturing departments within interactive 3D PDF.

Please select from the times below and register your details to attend:

• Monday 10th December – 11AM GMT*
• Monday 10^th December – 2PM GMT*

*A recording of the webinar will be available after the event.

Publish Creo data into an interactive 3D PDF with Theorem’s Publish 3D

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest Creo-3D PDF publisher from the Publish 3D product range.

Our Publish 3D – 3D PDF products enable the publishing of 3D Creo data directly from within the design application in to an interactive 3D PDF document format, or an HTML5 output.

V21.3 supports Creo 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and has a number of new features and enhancements, including:

• The processing of display Curves shown in a Combined State. When displaying a layer state within a combined view, generally only the solid and annotations are processed to PDF. This will also process any curves which are needed for downstream activities (engraving or welding positions etc.)
• Support for the translations of Offset Cross Sections, which are used to help simplify the component display.
• Improvements to Layer Visibility and Combination states, which help improve the way geometry is displayed, ensuring less confusion for the person viewing it.
• Addition of UI Creo Read Instance argument, giving the user more options when processing the file. This will help the user present the pdf display in a manner suitable to them.

The published PDF document contains embedded interactive 3D representations of the native Creo data (within pre-defined templates), offering greater levels of Intellectual Property (IP) protection with support for separate passwords to control either the access to the document as well as separate passwords to enable any editing of the 3D PDF output.

The Publish 3D product supports Model Based Definition (MBD) and 3D annotations and dimensions (PMI) from Creo into the 3D PDF format.

Anybody with access to the freely available Adobe Reader®, either on a PC, tablet or smartphone can access the interactive 3D data and are able to view, mark up and interrogate the document without the use of specialist CAD software. As 3D PDF is an ISO standard, the technology is easily integrated and can effectively become the protocol for easy, seamless document creation and communication.

Our strategic partnership with PTC ensures that there is parallel development between the latest releases of Creo, and Theorem’s Publish 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide publishing solutions for the Creo community.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s latest Visualize 3D Inventor to JT supports Inventor 2019

We are pleased to announce the latest release of our V21.3 Inventor to JT Visualize 3D translator supporting Inventor 2017, 2018 and 2019, and up to and including the JT file format version 10.0.

The Inventor to JT translator has been developed using the Autodesk Inventor Development Environment and translates up to and including the latest versions of Inventor data into the JT file format. The translator can be run using the freely available Inventor View application as a minimum system requirement, so access to a full license of Inventor is not required. The translator processes all JT assembly types, regardless of data structure.

Our Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications and support the translation of assembly structure, geometry and attributes.

Our new UI helps the development and streamlining of translation and downstream processes by allowing engineering data to be filtered, viewed, interrogated, manipulated and translated interactively or in batches with the ability to publish user specific documentation.

Theorem’s strategic partnerships with Autodesk and Siemens  ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of Inventor, JT and our Visualise 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions to the Inventor and JT communities.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

 

 

Theorem’s latest CADverter supports CATIA V5 R28 and NX 12

We are pleased to announce the release of their latest CADverter for CATIA V5 > NX users.

This uni-directional CADverter can also be licensed with our NX > CATIA V5 CADverter to create a bi-directional translator.

Integrated within the CATIA application, V21.2 supports all revisions of CATIA V4, CATIA V5-6R2015- V5-6R2018 and NX 10, NX 11 and NX 12.

New features and enhancements in V21.2 include

• Improved processing of Instance Colours to enhance the quality for users
• Interactive processing enhanced to allow importing of CGR files into NX, enabling users of CGR to take advantage of the interactive processing method.
• Support for processing NX containing subordinate JT files, which enables users of combined NX / JT assemblies to process them in one translation to CATIA V5, making it more efficient for users of this type of data.
• Improvements to the processing of PMI view associations, so when PMI is read from CATIA V5 it is processed to the correct views in NX.

 

CADverter products translate assembly structure, geometry, attributes and, where available, 3D Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) and Metadata between CATIA V5 and NX, supporting Model Based Definition (MBD) processes.

The aim of the CADverter is to allow the user to translate any data that they have held in a CATIA format and make it usable in NX for various use cases, whether the downstream user wants a lightweight reference part to model around, or a precise copy of the data translated to allow measurement and editing of translated models.

Our strategic partnerships with Dassault Systemes and Siemens ensures that there is parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and NX, and Theorem’s CADverter products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions for the CAD community.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Discover the new frontier of XReality collaboration at Digitalrealities.com

Digitalrealities.com is now live!

Launched specifically for our Digital Realities product suite supporting the latest immersive XR technologies (Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality).

Learn how to use your 3D CAD and PLM assets in the latest data and device agnostic task-focused experiences for Design, Manufacturing and Production, as well as the complementing and innovative Visualization Pipeline technology.

The Visualization Pipeline is a server based technology that rapidly processes and delivers CAD and PLM assets to both Theorem’s Experiences, or your own Experiences and Applications, optimised and output for consumption by a range of applications – 3D Engines, Photorealistic Rendering, Styling and Lightweight viewers.

Our Digital Realities suite enables engineering and manufacturing companies to leverage and work with existing 3D CAD and PLM assets at full scale in a 3D spatial context (spatial computing), helping to improve processes, and reduce the cognitive gap that exists between the real and digital worlds.

Our AR, MR and VR experiences are available for a wide range of low cost, portable devices – tablets, smartphones and Head Mounted Displays (HMD’s). And because they are data and device agnostic, you can use the same data across all devices.

Having data and device neutrality will protect your CAD and PLM investments even as technologies and devices develop and change.

Our Digital Realities product suite for XR is bringing a new dimension to traditional collaboration methods.

To support the launch of digitalrealities.com Theorem Solutions have commissioned a White Paper that is available to download “The Next Frontier of Collaboration”.

To download the white paper, please visit: https://www.digitalrealities.com/xr-the-cognitive-gap

Visit www.digitalrealities.com and start your Augmented, Mixed or Virtual Reality journey!

Create and share Parasolid data independently of CATIA V5 with Theorem’s latest CADverter

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CADverter (V21.2) for CATIA V5i <> Parasolid.

Designed specifically for companies who have limited or no access to the CATIA V5 application, but who need to create or read Parasolid data from CATIA V5 and vice versa, our CATIA V5i <> Parasolid CADverter is a high quality, cost effective translation solution designed to help solve the issue of working with and sharing incompatible data formats.

Using CADverter, CATIA V5 users can create and consume Parasolid data without needing access to a license of the CATIA V5 application.

Our CATIA V5i <> Parasolid is a bi-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systems’ V5 modelling application and the Siemens’ Parasolid geometric modelling kernel. It has been developed using the Spatial Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions up to V5-6R2018, and Parasolid V7 to V29.

Our CATIA V5i <> Parasolid solution helps support collaboration between companies, their customers and suppliers, enabling original 3D mechanical design data to be re-used in downstream activities helping to increase data quality and reduce overall project costs.

Our strategic partnership with Spatial and Siemens ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and Parasolid, and Theorem’s CADverter products, allowing us to continue to provide quality and robust data solutions for CATIA V5 and Parasolid users.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s latest CADverter enables you to create and share NX data independently of CATIA V5

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CADverter V21.2 for CATIA V5i to NX.

Our CATIA V5i to NX is a uni-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systemes’ V5 and Siemens’ NX modelling applications. It can be packaged with our NX to CATIA V5i to create a bi-directional product. It has been developed using the Spatial (Dassault) Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions from V5 R15 to V5-6R2017, and NX 10, 11 and 12.

Designed for companies who have limited or no access to the CATIA V5 application, but who need to create or read NX data, the CATIA V5i to NX CADverter is a high quality, cost effective translation solution designed to help solve the issue of working with and sharing incompatible data formats.

NX users who also have to work with data supplied in the CATIA format from customers and suppliers commonly find that they require access to a license of CATIA in order to translate the data in to NX. Using the CADverter, users can create NX data without needing access to a license of the CATIA V5 application.

Our CATIA V5i to NX solution helps to increase the productivity of the CATIA user by saving time and freeing up CAD licenses. It supports collaboration between OEM’s and their customers and suppliers, enabling original 3D mechanical design data to be re-used in downstream activities helping to increase data quality and reduce overall project costs.

Our strategic partnership with Spatial (Dassault Systemes) and Siemens ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and NX, and Theorem’s CADverter products, allowing us to continue to provide quality and robust data solutions for CATIA V5 and NX users.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem will be taking part in ProSTEP iViP’s JT Open Day 2018

The ProSTEP iViP association is hosting its fourth JT Open Day on 5^th November 2018 in Wolfsburg, Germany, and we will be presenting our current capabilities to support the JT standard as well as utilising JT data within our Digital Realities solutions.

The JT Day highlights the importance of JT as an industry-oriented, powerful, flexible and lightweight data format for the display and reuse of 3D data, and will also provide information on the use of JT as a multi-disciplinary 3D solution for the digital enterprise.

We have been developing JT solutions since 1998 and are a founder member of the JT Open program. We are particularly proud of our strong relationship with Siemens and the JT Open program, which enables our JT products and solutions to consistently keep pace with new JT enhancements and developments.

Our Digital Realities product range is a suite of client/server based applications that streamline the delivery and interactive manipulation of engineering CAD, Visualization and PLM data, including JT assets, on to the latest AR, MR and VR devices.

There are four pre-built, task specific Experiences available out of the box – Visualization, Design Review, Production Layout and Production Build-with each experience allowing you to load JT design data and quickly go to work on a wide range of devices such as MR and VR headsets, Tablets and Smartphones.

Demonstrations of the experiences will be available on the following devices:

• Augmented Reality (AR) – Windows 10, iOS and Android Tablets and Smartphones
• Mixed Reality (MR) – Microsoft HoloLens
• Virtual Reality (VR) – HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

To complement our Digital Realities experiences we have also launched our Visualization Pipeline technology, which is a server based technology that rapidly processes data assets into a wide variety of formats for use in 3D Engines – Unity and Unreal, Photorealistic Rendering, Styling, other lightweight viewers, or for use in AR/MR/VR tools and applications.

Engineering and Manufacturing businesses are increasingly looking into the benefits of using AR, MR and VR to improve processes and collaboration, cut costs and make access to data easier.

Integrating these innovative technologies into existing workflows opens up new ways of working, and modernises current processes, futureproofing them as technology evolves, and ultimately saves organisations time and money in the long run.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

 

Creo View data can now be created and shared independently of CATIA V5 with Theorem’s Visualize 3D solution

We are pleased to announce the latest release of Visualize 3D 21.2 for CATIA V5i > Creo View.

Our CATIA V5i > Creo View solution allows CATIA users, who have limited or no access to a licensed install of CATIA V5, to create and share Creo View data without needing access to a CATIA V5 license.

Licenses of vendor specific CAD applications can be expensive resources to purchase and also to maintain, so it doesn’t help when they are tied up for long periods of time on more design activities or when there aren’t enough available licenses to be able to multi-task different design projects. The CATIA V5i to Creo View product is the ideal solution for CATIA V5 users who have to supply native 3D mechanical design data in the lightweight Creo View format to customers and suppliers when limited resources are available.

Our CATIA V5i > Creo View is a uni-directional converter between the Dassault Systems’ CATIA V5 modelling application and the Creo View product viewer from PTC. It has been developed using the Spatial (Dassault) Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions up to and including V5-6R2018, as well as up to Creo View 4.2.

Our strategic partnership with Spatial (Dassault) and PTC ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and Creo View, and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide quality and robust data solutions for CATIA V5 and Creo View users.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

 

Check out Theorem’s latest Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality Experiences at Siemens PLM Europe 2018

We are looking forward to exhibiting as a Gold partner sponsor again at Siemens PLM Europe 2018, taking place in Berlin, Germany from 29^th-31^st October 2018.

We are taking this opportunity to showcase our newly launched Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality Experiences for Visualization, Design Reviews, Manufacturing Build and Factory Layout- part of our Digital Realities product portfolio-that are offering new and innovative ways of utilizing design and manufacturing data for the Siemens JT and NX user.

Our Digital Realities product range is a suite of client/server based applications that streamline the delivery and interactive manipulation of engineering CAD and PLM data on AR, MR and VR devices.

Demonstrations of the experiences will be available at stand #25 on the following devices:

• Augmented Reality (AR) – Windows 10, iOS and Android Tablets and Smartphones
• Mixed Reality (MR) – Microsoft HoloLens
• Virtual Reality (VR) – HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

The experience utilises existing CAD and PLM data assets from NX and JT, and can also merge data from ERP, MES, CRM and proprietary databases which adds further value to the Digital Realities application.

Engineering and Manufacturing businesses are increasingly looking into the benefits of using AR, MR and VR to improve processes and collaboration, cut costs and make access to data easier. Digital Realities is helping to make that possible with a single application.

To complement our Digital Realities experiences we have also launched our Visualization Pipeline technology, which is a server based technology that rapidly processes CAD data into a wide variety of formats for use in 3D Engines – Unity and Unreal, Photorealistic Rendering or AR/MR/VR tools, applications, and with lightweight viewers.

You will also be able to find out more about our Publish 3D suite which offers a 3D PDF publishing solution for organisations who design with NX or who want to extend the use of their JT data to create interactive 3D documentation – 3D PDF’s.

As a long standing Siemens PLM solution partner and Vendor Member of the JT Open initiative our latest productivity enhancing solutions for 3D PDF document publishing and Digital Realities portfolio are revolutionizing the way in which NX and JT users can interact with their CAD and Visualization data.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem are taking part in ProSTEP iViP and AFNeT’s STEP AP242 Day in Toulouse

ProSTEP iViP and AFNeT associations are hosting a STEP AP242 day on October 17th, 2018 at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, and we will be presenting our current capabilities to support the STEP AP242 standard and accessing the data within our Digital Realities solutions.

We have long been active members of PDES Inc and the ProSTEP iViP Association helping lead the development of STEP technology.

The event is targeting Automotive, Aerospace and Defense OEMs and suppliers, as well as PLM editors and integrators, and will focus on how to enforce the use of ISO 10303:242 and STEP standard series for an end to end 3D MBD and PLM metadata exchange to reduce collaboration cost and lead time.

Our Digital Realities product range is a suite of client/server based applications that streamline the delivery and interactive manipulation of engineering CAD and PLM data, including STEP data, on AR, MR and VR devices.

There are four pre-built, task specific Experiences available out of the box –

• Visualization
• Design Review
• Production Layout
• Production Build

Each experience allows you to optimise and utilize your STEP data using the Digital Realities – Server which can then be quickly and easily streamed to a wide range of devices for Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality, such as MR and VR headsets, Smart Glasses, Tablets and Smartphones.

Our experiences are currently available on the following devices:

• Augmented Reality (AR) – Windows 10, iOS and Android Tablets and Smartphones
• Mixed Reality (MR) – Microsoft HoloLens
• Virtual Reality (VR) – HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

To complement our Digital Realities experiences we have also launched our Visualization Pipeline technology, which is a server based technology that rapidly processes CAD data into a wide variety of formats for use in 3D Engines – Unity and Unreal, Photorealistic Rendering or AR/MR/VR tools, applications and with lightweight viewers.

Engineering and Manufacturing businesses are increasingly looking into the benefits of using AR, MR and VR to improve processes and collaboration, cut costs and make access to data easier.

Integrating these innovative technologies into existing workflows opens up new ways of working, and modernises current processes, futureproofing them as technology evolves, and ultimately saves organisations time and money in the long run.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem to launch latest range of AR, MR and VR Experiences at AWE Europe 2018

We are excited to be exhibiting at AWE Europe for the first time in 2018 – we will be on stand #109 in the Sponsors Pavilion at the MOC Exhibition Center in Munich on 18^th/19^th October to launch and demonstrate our newest innovations in visualization and server based technology.

We will be launching our ‘Digital Realities’ range of Engineering and Manufacturing based Experiences that utilise existing CAD and PLM assets in the latest Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality devices. In addition we will also be launching the ‘Visualization Pipeline’ server technology.

Our Digital Realities product range is a suite of client/server based applications that streamline the delivery and interactive manipulation of engineering CAD and PLM data on AR, MR and VR devices.

There are four pre-built, task specific Experiences available out of the box- Visualization, Design Review, Production Layout and Production Build-with each experience allowing you to load CAD and PLM design data and quickly go to work on a wide range of devices such as MR and VR headsets, Smart Glasses, Tablets and Smartphones.

Demonstrations of the experiences will be available at stand #109 on the following devices:

• Augmented Reality (AR) – Windows 10, iOS and Android Tablets and Smartphones
• Mixed Reality (MR) – Microsoft HoloLens
• Virtual Reality (VR) – HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

To complement our Digital Realities experiences we are also launching our Visualization Pipeline technology, which is a server based technology that rapidly processes CAD data into a wide variety of formats for use in 3D Engines – Unity and Unreal, Photorealistic Rendering or AR/MR/VR tools, applications and with lightweight viewers.

Engineering and Manufacturing businesses are increasingly looking into the benefits of using AR, MR and VR to improve processes and collaboration, cut costs and make access to data easier. The Visualization Pipeline is helping to make that possible with a single application.

Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality is everywhere at the moment and is making its way from the recreational gaming world into the commercial enterprise world. Integrating these innovative technologies into existing engineering and manufacturing workflows opens up new ways of working, and modernises current processes, futureproofing them as technology evolves, and ultimately saves organisations time and money in the long run.

If you are not attending AWE EU 2018 but would like more information on Theorem’s Digital Realities experiences visit www.theorem.com

Create and Share JT data independently of CATIA V5 with Theorem’s Visualize 3D

We are pleased to announce the latest release V21.2 of our CATIA V5i to JT visualization solution – part of the Visualize 3D product suite.

Our CATIA V5i- JT is a uni-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systems’ V5 modelling application and the JT file format used by the Siemens VisMockUp visualization product. It can be packaged with our JT-CATIA V5i to create a bi-directional product. It enables users to convert all forms of 3Dimensional mechanical design geometry and assembly data, together with system defined attribute and colour information, between the CATIA V5 and JT systems.

Our CATIA V5i-JT visualization solution allows CATIA users to continue working whilst reading or writing JT data without needing access to their CATIA V5 licenses.

Licenses of vendor specific CAD applications are expensive resources to purchase and to maintain. It doesn’t help when they are tied up for long periods of time on more design activities or when there aren’t enough available licenses to be able to multi-task different design projects.

It has been developed using the Spatial (Dassault Systemes) Interop Development Environment and supports all CATIA V5 revisions from V5 R15 to V5-6R2018, as well as all versions of JT. The new Theorem UI is supported for both interactive and batch processing.

New features and enhancements to the latest version include:

• The ability to process associated attribute data- non-graphical data such as materials and costs- and write it out into JT, providing a broader set of information that supports the CAD information.
• The ability to control the processing of properties by use of a property mapping file. This enables the user to manipulate and filter which attribute data is exported, protecting any IP data.
• An option to report mass property values into the progress file for review. Values such as volume, surface area and centre of gravity are now being reported in an audit log, which can be used to validate the conversion process.

Our CATIA V5i-JT solution helps to increase the productivity of CATIA users by saving time whilst at the same time freeing up expensive CAD licenses.

Our strategic partnerships with Spatial (Dassault Systemes) and Siemens ensures that the latest releases of CATIA V5, JT and Theorem’s Visualise 3D products, allow us to continue to provide quality and robust data solutions to the CAD and Visualization communities.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Publish JT data directly into interactive 3D PDF’s with Theorem’s Publish 3D

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest JT to 3D PDF product from the Publish 3D range, with new and improved product features and enhancements, and support for JT 10.x.

Our Publish 3D – 3D PDF products enable the publishing of JT data directly into the interactive 3D PDF document format.

The published PDF document contains embedded interactive 3D representations of the native JT data (within pre-defined templates), offering greater levels of Intellectual Property (IP) protection, with support for separate passwords to control the editing of the 3D PDF output.

New enhancements for V21.1:

• The ability to add images into tables which, rather than use text to describe individual parts in a BOM table, can be used to make clearer which parts are in question. Using images also makes a template more visually appealing for the end user.
• When creating a new template, all images can be saved to a single directory and one command used to import them all, rather than having to import each individual image.
• More dynamic and customizable templates can now be created with improved CSS support for active BOM tables and highlighted parts.

Our Unified Interface (UI) provides the opportunity for multiple PDF publishing from a single data source using the selection of ready-made templates, or the option of Theorem consultancy services to create bespoke templates.  The UI helps the development and streamlining of translation and downstream processes by allowing engineering data to be filtered, viewed, interrogated, manipulated and translated interactively or in batches with the ability to publish user specific documentation.

The Publish 3D product supports Model Based Definition (MBD) and 3D annotations and dimensions (PMI) from JT into the 3D PDF format.

Anybody with access to the freely available Adobe Reader®, either on a PC, tablet or smartphone can access the interactive 3D data and are able to view, mark up and interrogate the document without the use of specialist CAD software. As 3D PDF is an ISO standard (ISO 24517-1 (PDF/E), the technology can be easily integrated and can effectively become the protocol for easy, seamless document creation and communication.

Through a partnership with Siemens, we can ensure that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of JT and Publish 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide 3D publishing solutions for the JT community.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s latest Visualize 3D- CATIA V5-Creo View Adapter supports CATIA V5 R28

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest Visualize 3D Adapter for CATIA V5 to Creo View users supporting up to and including CATIA V5-6R2014-2018.

For those that need to work with, or share, visualization data as part of design and manufacturing processes, the Theorem Visualize 3D suite of products offers direct translation of 3D data for the purpose of Visualization.

Our Visualize 3D brand supports lightweight data formats with a focus specifically on the direct translation of 3D CAD data from mechanical CAD systems for the purpose of Visualization, enabling users to work with and share data directly between different CAD and Visualization applications and are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, desktop and tablet viewing applications.

Using Visualize 3D as a direct conversion tool between CATIA V5 to Creo View reduces processing time, simplifies integration and retains accuracy of the model.

V21.1 now supports up to and including CATIA V5-6R2014-2018 and Creo View 4.2.

V21.1 can be used independently of WindChill, or integrated into WindChill, allowing CATIA V5 managed data to be published and visualized on demand. As the Creo View data output is then synchronized with the CATIA source, an accurate up-to-date version of the design is always available, reducing costly errors.

The CATIA V5 to Creo View suite helps to secure Intellectual Property, but at the same time supports a rich enough set of design data intelligence so that suppliers have all of the information required to complete their job.

Our strategic partnerships with Dassault Systemes and PTC ensures that there is parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and Creo View, and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions for the CAD community.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality Experiences to be showcased at GPDIS 2018

Our participation for the 5^th consecutive year at the Global Product Data Interoperability Summit 2018 taking place in Phoenix, Arizona 17^th -20^th September 2018 underscores our commitment to providing first-class interoperability solutions for the worldwide aerospace industry.

You’ll find us this year on stand #29, where we will be demonstrating our latest visualization innovation that utilises existing CAD and PLM assets in Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality devices – known as Digital Realities.

Digital Realities is an out of the box, data and device agnostic, task focused application delivering engineering and manufacturing experiences to the latest digital technologies for:

• Visualization
• Design Reviews
• Manufacturing Build
• Factory Layout

Engineering and Manufacturing businesses are increasingly looking into the benefits of using AR, MR and VR to improve processes and collaboration, cut costs and make access to data easier. Digital Realities is helping to make that possible with a single application.

Our Principal Technical Consultant Trevor Leeson will be giving a presentation on ‘The Challenges of Working with Digital Twins’, which will discuss how to exploit your existing CAD & PLM assets within the emerging world of Augmented Reality, and the use of digital twin technology for design review, service & maintenance and manufacturing activities.

The experiences utilise existing CAD and PLM data assets from CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE, CATIA V5, CREO, Inventor, JT, NX, SolidWorks and STEP and can also merge data from ERP, MES, CRM and proprietary databases which adds further value to the experience.

By making these low cost devices accessible, and democratising the use of AR, MR and VR technology, Theorem’s Experiences are opening up an entirely new way to interact with Engineering and Manufacturing data up and down the supply chain.

The Digital Realities App currently supports the following devices:

• Augmented Reality (AR) – Windows 10, iOS and Android Tablets and Smartphones
• Mixed Reality (MR) – Microsoft HoloLens
• Virtual Reality (VR) – HTC Vive and Oculus Rift

Stop by stand #29 and try out the experiences on the devices for yourself.

We will also be available to offer expert advice on our range of 3D PDF document publishing solutions, CAD Visualisation solutions and STEP translators which all offer significant benefits to aerospace OEMs and supply chain networks.

For more information visit www.theorem.com

Theorem’s Visualize 3D solution supports the latest versions of CATIA V5 and JT

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest Visualize 3D CATIA V5 to JT solution.

V21.1 supports CATIA V5-6R2015 to CATIA V5-6R2018, as well as all versions of JT, up to and including 10.0.

Our Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications and for companies wanting to share JT data as part of a collaboration process.

This uni-directional product can be licensed with our JT to CATIA V5 product to create a bi-directional translator.

V21.1 enables the CATIA V5 user to create a JT representation of their data and supports the translation of assembly structure, geometry, attributes, 3D Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) (FTA) (GD&T) and Metadata. It can also be used as a data exchange format for leading mechanical CAD/CAM systems which support JT. By efficiently and accurately creating PMI data it facilitates Model Based Definition (MBD) processes.

V21.1 also includes:

• A new single JT configuration file that supports all translation requirements from (supported) CAD to JT, removing the requirement for multiple files – saving time and reducing possible error.
• The ability to use standard CATIA V5 menus to select Theorem configurations created using the Theorem Configuration Manager or from within the Theorem Unified Interface.
• Export JT files directly from within CATIA V5 using the standard ‘File > Save As’ functionality which helps to reduce the risk of error using familiar menu’s.

 

Using JT with additional 3D PMI data as part of a Model Based Definition process allows the user to reduce the overall design costs associated with the creation of conventional 2D drawings.

Sharing CATIA V5 data using the neutral ISO standard JT format allows organisations to protect the intellectual property of their designs while allowing users to explore the shape to more easily understand the 3D definition. The IP protection can be enhanced by restricting the JT representation to be tessellated data only.

Our strategic partnerships with Dassault Systemes and Siemens ensures that there is parallel development between the latest releases of CATIA V5 and JT, and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing us to continue to provide data solutions for CATIA V5 users wanting to create JT data.

For more information visit www.theorem.com