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3DVIA Composer – V6R2013x Certification Exam
Recently, 3DVIA Composer team has released a new certification exam that has been updated to V6R2013x. This certification focuses on 3DVIA Composer and offers customers, partners, DS employees, and...
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Detail View of a Detail View
Your illustration customer has a very specific style for their Detail View bubbles. Here are some techniques to match those styles. Lets get creative! Tim
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Update Views with Selected Actors
This is my favorite feature in Composer! I use it every single time I am in the product, it saves massive amounts of time when modifying and updating my views. Let me know if you agree! Enjoy! Garth
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TodCast#19 Highlighting and Hotspots
Recently a customer told me he wanted to be able to turn off all selection and highlighting including the red bounding box but still see only specific objects clearly .so I showed him how to do it....
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TodCast #21 Specify angles and correct measurements
Recently I got a question of how to specify a specific angle on a polyline and get accurate measurements of angles. Here are a couple of tips and suggestions to do that. Also, of you have not checked...
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TodCast #22 Mirror geometry and animations
I literally just got off a web-ex with a customer that wanted to mirror a procedure to make let’s say a left hand/right version. I never did one of these before and thought I’d try it. When I figured...
View ArticleCopy Keys
For most of you this is a refresher on one of the capabilities within 3DVIA Composer Authoring. When animating repetitive tasks it is helpful to utilize the “Copy Selected Tracks of the Selected...
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The Inagural 3DVIA Composer User Group!
We’re proud to announce that the first ever 3DVIA Composer User Group meeting was an astounding success! Braving the cold and snow of the Minnesota winter, a broad mix of CAD engineers, engineering...
View ArticleTodCast #6: IP Protection and Secure 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3wFk2-hZI When ever you share 3D data outside your organization, you put your designs at risk of being reverse engineered and stolen. This makes protecting...
View Article3DVIA your iPod… wait a minute… Introducing the TodCast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ke-LrMj8QM We have a TON of new videos to share with you. I was about to post our next “3DVIA your iPod” video, and quickly eclipse our 100th video, and the title...
View ArticleTodCast #2: Routing Wires
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTeC49Ypdo So you want to route some wires on your 3DVIA Composer animation, but: (a) you don’t have 3D models of wires, and (b) you don’t have a way to make parts...
View ArticleTodCast #3: Animating Conveyors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZDkORY6pY For those of us in the northern hemisphere — hot enough for ya? Welcome to the dog days of summer! To help keep you cool, Tod has put together a set of tips...
View ArticleTodCast #4: Custom Color Silhouettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–4VY4BhUNs Have you ever wanted to make a technical illustration using non-black silhouette outlines for specific parts? It’s incredibly easy and fast to do, as Tod...
View ArticleTodCast #5: Using Multiple Cameras
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOSqsThzaSY Welcome to the first TodCast of 2012! We have been busy making fresh content for your enlightenment and enjoyment. (Please feel free to tell us what you’d...
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TodCast #29 Use Styles for Consistency
Styles are a very powerful and probably an under-utilized feature that can really help make your Composer experiences more consistent. In one example from the forum, a user was adding spaces to text...
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