New XVL Tools for Creating, Editing and Publishing Anywhere

XVL Studio

XVL Studio economically delivers a wide range of tools for a variety of mission-critical tasks:

• design validation and testing
• process animation
• production verification
• assembly planning

In addition, XVL Studio lets you create animated and static illustrations for user guides, maintenance instructions and repair operations. How are all these functions possible?

By transferring 3D CAD geometry into the transportable XVL format, you can now easily repurpose these graphics for multiple tasks in your company, such as demonstrating production assembly, providing instructions for assembly or presenting a product to customers. Often, reusing your engineering-originated model eliminates the downstream graphics work and the costly product photography typically used for user manuals, training materials, marketing collateral and catalogs.

Now XVL Studio helps you make these 3D animations in minutes. Although static pictures remain an important part of XVL Studio deliverables, animations are more engaging as communication tools. They can show the interior of an engine, the order of its assembly or show how pistons and values move together. Because these XVL animation files are lightweight, you can embed them into reports and manuals, use them on your Web site or email them across your organization.

The new XVL Studio package contains all the tools you need to fully test and validate even the biggest 3D assemblies, and directly create realistic illustrations and animations for any use. Simply use the XVL Converter to translate your CAD data into XVL, which preserves the exact geometries of your parts and compresses the data into as little as 1/250 its original size. Import the desired assembly animation into XVL Studio, and assign the process, explosion or key frame definitions to the timeline — then publish the results as new XVL files.

XVL Player

XVL Player is a free downloadable 3D viewer for XVL data files available in plug-in versions for Internet Explorer.

Features of the XVL Player let you:

• Zoom, pan, rotate and interact with the scene, play XVL 3D animations, and support hot links and triggers

• Customize views with specific element visibility and display controls that offer choices of color mapping displays and multiple shading styles, including wireframe, hidden-line, shaded and textured views

• Perform interactive cross-sectioning on models

• Choose different processing speeds and other controls to balance image quality with performance

• Secure encrypted delivery of 3D data only to users who have valid passwords with XVL Signer

After installing the plug-in on your PC, you can browse and view 3D XVL-enabled Web pages or view 3D XVL models merely by embedding the player as an ActiveX control in any Microsoft Office document.

For anyone needing more control over the player, Lattice offers XVL Player Pro, the professional version of XVL Player. XVL Player Pro includes all of the functionality of XVL Player and adds advanced engineering capabilities — measurement, cross sectioning and data visualization analysis. The product also provides sophisticated interface features — an expanded toolbar, enhanced menus, an integrated help manual and supplementary information windows. Read more about it here.

Or download your free XVL Player here.

XVL—Web Master

It's almost like e-graffiti, because you can put your data everywhere you want with this new tool that converts 3D data into Web pages quickly and easily.

Web Master is a quick way to get whatever you create in XVL Studio to your audience across the Web, whether that audience is inside your company or worldwide. The product lets employees on every continent pull up a 360-degree view of any part in just seconds. Customers can get a visual verification of their selections while ordering their spare parts online. Your maintenance team in the field can view animations of how to repair machinery correctly. Your marketing department can make an online demo without spending time redrawing the product.

Web Master includes these key features:

• Automatic HTML page generation with a choice of predefined templates
• Cross-linked syncing of 3D-geometry display and corresponding assembly tree entities, parts or illustrations
• Automatic explosion automation
• Integration with external database data

The application enables Web publishing of any XVL model or animation. HTML output is viewable on browsers anywhere.

Find out more details on the Lattice Web site.

Lattice3D Reporter

Lattice3D Reporter works within Microsoft Excel to rapidly create interactive 3D parts lists. The product lets you quickly import and place various 3D views and link the 3D data directly to a parts list or Bill of Materials (BOM). Users can then interactively investigate and cross-check the accuracy of the list data with the model, learn about the design by clicking each part listing and assess the upcoming procurement needs of the product through an intuitive, interactive interface.

Users can rapidly share and view the Excel spreadsheets created in Lattice3D Reporter by using the Free Lattice3D Reporter Viewer available at www.lattice3d.com.

Using Lattice3D Reporter is as easy as using Excel. And by delivering 3D into industry-standard tools such as Excel, Lattice Technology delivers the ease of use that we would like to expect with 3D.

Lattice3D Reporter is a superb tool for users who need to access 3D data and interact with the parts lists but do not wish to become CAD users. The product enables more efficient processes by facilitating greater understanding, increased accuracy and faster throughput of information during the design-to-manufacture process.

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