Lattice3D has launched a new 3D Publishing Suite designed to enhance manufacturers’ ability to use, share, and repurpose 3D data across the enterprise.

Lattice3D’s new suite is a set of highly interoperable XVL-based applications: Lattice3D Embed, Lattice3D Composer, and Lattice3D Publisher. The XVL format is a robust 3D format developed by Lattice Group and used by NASA, Toyota, and Dassault Systems. XVL brings instantaneous standardization for very diverse formats and provides 1/50 to 1/250 (better than 98%) compression in a loss-less format, so large 3D data files become small enough to handle on PC systems, e-mail, and use online without loss of detail or visual fidelity.

"Lattice3D's new architecture of interoperable applications is a fitting vehicle for the sophisticated compression of 3D graphics offered by Lattice Group's XVL format," says Ken Versprille, Ph.D., PLM research director for CPD Associates. "The Lattice3D suite is well positioned to meet the needs of downstream users of product data."

Embed allows interactive 3D data to be manipulated easily and embedded in 2D document formats such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and HTML.

Composer creates 3D documents with linked and interactive 3D data, 2D images, parts lists, assembly structures, and any other structured data. Composer documents can also include markup text and be embedded in popular 2D document formats.

Publisher greatly simplifies the publishing of intelligent 3D information into lightweight, fast-loading 3D Web pages. Select a template and click a button.

All three products are advances from previous software applications and feature:

·        Increased publishing breadth: Composer and Embed can output to XVL, Microsoft Office documents, PDF, and HTML, as well as Lattice3D’s own lightweight 3D document format. Publisher outputs Web pages in HTML.

·        Increased interoperability: Instead of being combined in one unwieldy application, Composer, Embed, and Publisher are now three separate, but highly interoperable, XML-based applications.

·        New user interface: While recognizable to existing users, the new UI lets you do more with fewer clicks and contains modern toolbars and property panels.

·        Holistic approach to publishing: The suite has been extended to provide a seamless experience in communication and publishing—from simple embedding, to template creation, to mass Web publishing.

“It’s clear that 3D data enables better and faster comprehension, better retention, better communication and better collaboration,” said Lattice3D CEO Alexander Garcia-Tobar. “Lattice3D technology facilitates communication when words alone don't do an adequate job, or when efficiencies can be gained by using 3D everywhere.”