Manufacturing Industry
All the right views: 3D visualization prompts issue awareness among product stakeholders.(Applications & Services)
Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005 by Bury, Scott
"We spent a lot of money on meetings and conference calls," says Terry Van Olst, director of engineering development at Raleigh, N.C.-based Sensus Metering Systems, which supplies meter systems to the utilities industry. With design engineers in the U.S. and Europe, Sensus needed a robust yet easy method of collaborating on CAD projects.
Sensus now uses PTC's ProEngineer CAD systems, as well as Centric Software's Collaborative Product Innovation system, including 3D viewing and markup software licensed from Cimmetry Systems (recently acquired by Agile Software). The 3D software allows Sensus' engineers, technicians, and marketing departments to collaborate in real time. That capability is one reason why 3D visualization software is gaining favor in...
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