3D Instant Website.3D Instant Website is a new tool that enables SolidWorks users to create and publish live Web pages with 3D interactive content. 3D Instant Website aids design collaboration by using the Internet to assist communication throughout the extended design team, including designers, manufacturing personnel, outside vendors, purchasing agents Noun 1. purchasing agent - an agent who purchases goods or services for another agent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations , marketing departments, and customers. SolidWorks customers can publish designs either to a Solid Works-hosted Website, or locally to their corporate Intranets. Publishing to a SolidWorks- hosted Website eliminates the need for users to have any Web server infrastructure. 3D Instant Website enables users to publish interactive 3D images with one mouse click. Visitors to the password-protected site can view, rotate, zoom To change from a distant view to a more close-up view (zoom in) and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom. A display adapter may also have built-in zoom capability. , and pan 3D models without manually downloading or installing any additional viewers or CAD software. It also provides customers with templates for publishing SolidWorks designs. These customizable templates and style sheets use standard XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) A standard from the W3C for describing a style sheet for XML documents. It is the XML counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. conventions to define the information and presentation of the Web pages. The open XML See Office Open XML. and XSL standards enable users with limited programming and Web-page design experience to create and modify templates. This allows users to add new data to their Web pages and define how their data is __ displayed on a Website. The 3D Instant Website publisher includes two sample templates: * Basic Template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the -- enables users to enter Web page titles, design descriptions, related web links, and company information. * Collaborative Template -- allows users to invite anyone with a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. to review and comment on the design. The invited reviewers can then provide comments that are automatically added to the Web page, and accept or reject the design concepts. "3D Instant Website is a breakthrough in ease-of-use for design communication and collaboration," said John McEleney, vice president of the Americas for Solid Works. "The Internet continues to change the way that people communicate and SolidWorks is committed to leveraging Web technology to help our customers work faster, easier, and more efficiently. 3D Instant Website is an incredibly important step in the future of collaborative CAD." 3D Instant Website supports several standard, 3D interactive viewing formats, including eDrawingsT, CATweb, Metastream, and Reality Wave. Users can choose any of these viewing formats to publish designs based on their individual needs. The viewers are automatically downloaded and installed, so there is no need to purchase or download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. any additional software to view the models. |
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