Share 3D CAD design data using lightweight formats
Enabling the exchange of design data through use of lightweight formats
Theorem provides solutions for all of the major lightweight viewing formats and enables you to create and consume that data for a variety of downstream purposes.
Lightweight 3D visualization data is used for a wide range of purposes, including desktop viewing, full scale digital mock up and for sharing data with suppliers. It is used in support of a wide range of engineering processes and for supplier communication. Being lightweight whilst representing the shape and structure of source CAD, it limits the depth of intellectual property (IP) being shared, so protects IP.
As well as geometry and product structure data, it can be used to share PMI (GD&T) information and Metadata internally and with customers and suppliers, thereby supporting the move to Model Based Engineering.
Supported Lightweight Formats
Typical Use Cases
If you find that you need to work with or share visualization data as part of your design and manufacturing process Theorem’s Lightweight 3D suite of products offer direct translation of 3D data for the purpose of Visualization.
Lightweight data formats have different use cases to mechanical CAD and due to the increasing sophistication of visualization systems, the requirement to exchange visualization data is helping to enhance collaboration.
Whilst visualization formats help to secure Intellectual Property, at the same time they support a rich enough set of design data intelligence that suppliers have all of the information required to complete their job.
Collaboration between business partners, whether suppliers or customers, is increasingly being achieved today with the exchange of Visualization data with an emerging requirement to read Visualization data back in to the native mechanical CAD system.
Key Features
Use Lightweight 3D to receive, create, or share data for Visualization format.
- Lightweight 3D products are Direct Database Converters.
- Available in Uni-Directional and Bi-Directional configurations dependent upon the product.
- Conversion processes can be run interactively or in batch.
- Support for 3D Product Manufacturing Information between systems
- Support for data filtering optimizes data and conversion times.
Why Theorem?
As an independent company, with strong, long standing business relationships with all major CAD vendors, we can objectively offer best in class data exchange solutions to meet many use case requirements for organizations of all sizes.
Evaluation Request
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Uniquely
As an independent company, with strong, long standing business relationships with all major CAD vendors, we can objectively offer best in class data exchange solutions to meet many use case requirements for organizations of all sizes.
A Logical Approach to CAD Data Exchange
What should you consider when starting a CAD Data Exchange project?
This article aims to help people highlight, and then side-step, common problems that may occur during their data exchange lifecycle.