3D Instant Website

Web communication made easy

3D Instant Website is a giant step forward in 3D design communication via the web. It’s never
been simpler to communicate with your entire work team – other designers, manufacturing
staff, marketing management, purchasing agents, suppliers, and customers. Publish your designs
instantly, and with email you can easily notify everyone who needs to refer to those designs.
Provide the visual information they need to give you important “instant” feedback.

Interactive, not static

Wait until your colleagues see the visuals on your website. Not static 2D images, but 3D models
they can view, rotate, zoom, and pan without having to buy CAD software or install special
viewers. Visitors to your password-protected site can truly get an accurate look at your product
designs. No other web publishing solution gives SolidWorks® 3D mechanical CAD software
users as much power coupled with such simplicity. Imagine what you can do. Share 3D design
concepts with anyone, anywhere. Receive instantaneous departmental suggestions and
approvals. Suddenly, communication with your extended design team is just a click away.

No web server needed, no additional software

As a SolidWorks user, you have a choice. Publish your designs to a website hosted by
SolidWorks Corporation, or publish locally using your organization’s web resources. Choosing
the SolidWorks-hosted website eliminates the need to have any web server infrastructure.
In addition, SolidWorks provides unique automation wizards that download and install all the
software needed to publish your website, automatically. Visiting your site is also convenient
because there’s no need for guests to manually download or install any additional viewers or
other software.

eDrawings-empowered

You can also publish your 2D detail drawings to the web. The popular eDrawings™ file format
combines the power of 2D and 3D and offers unique drawing interpretation tools, including 3D
cross hair, animation, hyperlinked views, virtual folding, and zooming/panning. You can now
focus attention on multiple subsets of the drawing at one time, smoothly navigate among the
views, identify and match geometry in multiple views, and more.

Customizable templates

Beginner or web guru, you will benefit from 3D Instant Website’s powerful, easy-to-use templates
for publishing your design work. These customizable templates and style sheets use open XML
and XSL standards, so even users with limited programming and web design experience can
easily create and modify the templates, adding new data to the web pages and deciding how
that data is best displayed. 3D Instant Website includes three sample templates:
• Basic Template — Enables you to enter web page titles, design descriptions, related web links,
and company information.
• Collaborative Template — Allows you to invite anyone with a web browser to review and
comment on the design. The invited reviewers can then accept or reject the design concepts as
well as provide comments that are automatically added to the web page.
• Tree Template — Lets you display an assembly tree of your model. Select, hide, or explode
components to fully explore a complex design.

Viewing formats

You can choose from a variety of formats to publish designs. The viewers are automatically
downloaded and installed, so there’s no need to purchase or download any additional software
in order to view models. 3D Instant Website supports multiple 3D interactive viewing formats:
• CATweb • JPEG
• eDrawings • RealityWave
• HOOPS • Viewpoint
Together, these formats support communication of 2D drawings and 3D designs, on multiple
browsers, on Windows® and UNIX® operating systems.

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