Enterprise-Wide Uses of 3D Data

For companies looking to extend their 2D and 3D data beyond the engineering department, Lattice builds its productivity-improving and award-winning Digital Manufacturing solutions to work seamlessly in a 3D workflow. Built on open standards, these modular products provide flexible configurations and allow you to buy just the components you need with flexibility for the future. They integrate smoothly with product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise-resource planning (ERP) or other enterprise-wide applications.

Digital Manufacturing solutions

Once you have started implementing a Digital Manufacturing process in your operation, you will quickly see that 3D CAD and PLM systems do not yet fulfill all the promises that Digital Manufacturing can offer. A further challenge also becomes clear: As the adoption of 3D design grows rapidly, the sheer size of the 3D data is also increasing dramatically. And these growing file sizes make exchanging and reusing far more difficult, especially for processor-intensive activities such as design validation and assembly verification. By using the XVL format, Lattice Technology's applications let design teams quickly complete these kinds of tasks without the need for a 3D CAD system and expert user to be involved.

Highly compressed and portable

Lattice's ultra-compressed XVL file format provides unmatched 3D compression without loss of fidelity. It reduces 3D CAD files into lightweight documents that, when exchanged among company workers, can dramatically improve communication. Workers can view, measure and annotate the XVL-compressed 3D files throughout a manufacturing enterprise, as well as share the 3D data with other key partners.

Because it's based on a pure mathematical model following all curves exactly, XVL provides extremely high image fidelity and enables good communication of 3D data at all levels of zoom without any compression penalty. With the accurate mathematical model of XVL, the technology can generate polygons at the time of viewing and quickly regenerate them at any zoom level.

Lattice's Digital Manufacturing solutions focus on improving productivity to streamline your company's individual job functions. Our products help you solve specific design and production verification and validation problems so that you can increase efficiency, lower costs and improve product quality. Lattice Technology solutions are used by more than 2,000 companies around the world, including Boeing, Casio, Hitachi, Sony and Toyota. To see how some of Lattice's customers have benefitted from using our solutions, see the Case Studies article in this issue of Technology Times.

To learn how Lattice can help you leverage your 3D data across your entire enterprise, visit our Web site (www.lattice3d.com) or call +415-274-1670.