The 3DEXPERIENCE Roles

On cloud / On-premises / Collaboration & Intelligence 

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• • Innovate with more confidence by engaging consumers and customers early in the ideation process. 
  • Easily access and consider valuable feedback from across the value stream. 
  • Make the best-informed decisions, considering all data across your enterprise not just data at hand or outdated reports. 
  • Improve productivity by sharing easily across your value stream. Spend less time updating data and managing status. 

On cloud / On-premises / 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS 

Access the 3DEXPERIENCE cloud-based platform from within your DraftSight application for secure data and product lifecycle management. Shorten time to market with secure collaboration across disciplines and distributed design teams working with a centralized product repository in DraftSight. 

• Manage drawing data with the seamless and integrated product lifecycle management. 
• Search, explore, and perform lifecycle operations including revise, release and lock/unlock. 
• Directly access 3DEXPERIENCE applications and information from DraftSight. 

On cloud / On-premises / Collaboration & Intelligence 

Planning for all, reduce resource and overall project execution costs with lean optimized team planning. 

• Experience mobile, inclusive, and easy-to-use tools for any user to plan their work and contribute to the team plan. 
• Benefit from collaborative planning in real time. 
• Real-time project execution KPI’s are available to all collaborators. 
• Get access to a built-in Schedule Optimizer. 
• Automatically optimize project plans based on user updates and changes. 
• Immersive and seamless, you can integrate your unique tasks. 
• Assign tasks and associate deliverables, available directly from within your CAD application. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Design better products faster with the advanced productivity and rendering capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional. 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional builds on the capabilities of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Standard to speed up your time-to-market.   

• Analyze designs based on manufacturing cost estimation. 
• Check for design errors and detect any interference to eliminate manufacturing rework. 
• Quickly assess the manufacturability of your designs with dimension and tolerance analyses. 

• Reverse engineer from scanned mesh models. 
• Create photorealistic images and animations of your designs for marketing. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight Professional enables you to create and edit professional-grade DWG drawings within a familiar 2D drafting environment.  

• Get up to speed quickly with a familiar and streamlined user interface. 
• Migrate easily from other 2D CAD applications thanks to a familiar interface, workflows, and support for your existing DWG data and automation. 

• Create, edit, view, share and print professional drawings for engineering, construction, and manufacturing. 
• Leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for secure collaboration. 
• Manage 2D DWG data with rich design libraries and productivity tools. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Innovate, collaborate, and create great designs anywhere anytime. 3D Creator combines ease of use with innovative design methodologies and cloud collaboration inside your web browser. 

• Capture and realize your ideas with parametric 3D models of parts and assemblies. 
• 3D Creator includes the xDesign app equipped with Design Guidance, an interactive simulation and optimization algorithm-based feature to inspire innovative solutions to your design challenges. 

• Stop worrying about installing, configuring, or managing software. With a cloud-based solution you are always working with the latest version of 3D Creator on all your devices. 
• Ensure secure communication and collaboration with stakeholders, both internal and external. Ensure successful collaboration within your ecosystem through secure and safe communities, complete design, and file access control, sharing, light weight visualization, and product review. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE WORKS 

Create production-ready sheet metal designs in a powerful, intuitive, browser-based solution. 

3D SheetMetal Creator provides a focused user experience tailored to the needs of sheet metal designers and engineers, perfect for sheet metal components and enclosures. 

• Create accurate, manufacturing-ready, and detailed sheet metal designs anywhere at any time with no installation necessary. 
• Validate designs early with instant access to automatically updated flat patterns. 
• Streamline your design process with an intuitive, intelligent, and dedicated sheet metal user experience. 
• Automate repetitive tasks with the help of the Design Assistant using machine learning technology. 

On cloud / 3DEXPERIENCE Works 

Manufacturing Definition Creator combines model-based and drawing-based capabilities in one integrated solution to enable you and your teams to easily define 3D models and quickly produce 2D drawings from them, in a matter of mouse clicks. The combination of 2D and 3D definition capabilities delivers next-generation flexibility, empowering you to choose the best output to meet all your stakeholders’ needs. 

• Intuitively and accurately define design requirements and specifications on your models, reducing discrepancies and ensuring a consistently up-to-date connection between definition and engineering. 

• Reduce shop floor questions and facilitate the interpretation of product definitions with a series of captured views that provide a curated storyline of design requirements. 
• Communicate 2D and 3D definition from anywhere on any device with an internet connection. All stakeholders, internal and external, are always up-to-date and can access the latest data at any time. 
• Easily produce an accurate 2D representation from your existing 3D definitions. 
• Clearly communicate design specifications with 3D product manufacturing information (PMI) capabilities. 

On cloud / Multibody Dynamics 

Access a robust set of motion simulation capabilities, within an intuitive, highly interactive, and tightly integrated motion-to-design environment for a true lifelike experience. 3D Motion Creator provides users with easy-to-use functionality for kinematic and dynamic analysis of any mechanisms, delivering actionable results to enable design teams to verify product range of motions and optimize product design. 

• Quickly define, simulate, and validate multiple mechanical designs earlier in your design processes to drive product innovation.  
• Rapidly evaluate what-if design scenarios under realistic conditions to reduce costly design and prototyping rework.  
• Understand the complete impact of product motion with 3D animations and result plots. 

On cloud / On-premises 

Validate and optimize plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling, packing, warpage, and mold cooling early in the product development process. 

• Virtually test the performance of plastic part and mold tooling designs with an intuitive, guided simulation assistant that minimizes the learning curve. 
• Cover the needs for all industries, all key workflows, and all user personas with a single role. 
• Predict common molding defects including weld-lines, sink marks, air traps, and incomplete filling (short shots). 
• Evaluate the effectiveness of mold cooling system designs. 
• Apply advanced structural capabilities available in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, such as non-linear multi-scale material modeling, directly on a common model. 

• Leverage process automation, design of experiments, and advanced optimization tools. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Provide your design engineers with the powerful and intuitive tools they need to perform linear structural simulations during the design process. 

• Test structural performance with a unique guided workflow for linear static, frequency, buckling, steady state thermal, harmonic, and modal dynamic analysis types. 
• Easily assess large assembly performance with intuitive contact definition and powerful contact detection capability. 

• Evaluate the structural KPIs of any geometry type with high quality meshing including solid, shell and beam elements with automatic mesh generation. 
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models. 
• Include local compute up to 4 cores. 

On cloud / On-premises / Structures 

Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments to make better-informed engineering and manufacturing decisions. 

• Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design process. 

• Experience efficient what-if scenarios through seamless associativity and integration with geometry. 
• Take advantage of a unique engineering workflow with access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface. 
• Work with multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process. 
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies. 
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models. 

• Include local compute up to 4 cores. 

On cloud / On-premises / Simulation 

Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling needed to reduce non-value-added tasks and build solver-ready finite element models quickly and efficiently. 

• Provide structures modelling and assembly for T&M, A&D, and other strategic industry process experiences. 
• Fully automate mid-surface extraction, mesh generation, and mesh re-generation. 

• Manage subassemblies and utilize automated assembly connections modeling. 
• Generate abstraction shapes for simulation associated to original design geometry. 
• Perform collaborative model management for building and sharing models particularly suited for large assemblies. 

On cloud / Collaborative Operations 

Guide team engagement and improve performance with DELMIA 3DLean. 

• Engage teams despite physical or organizational barriers. 
• Structure meetings to guide problem-solving and manage actions. 
• Visualize 3D content and data. 
• Empower teams to work autonomously. 

• Make ‘Lean Thinking’ a standard part of business, teams, and culture. 

On cloud / On-premises / Industrial Engineering 

Define and validate your fabrication process in a user-friendly 3D virtual environment and consume and track all specification inputs. 

• Accelerate the start of production and improve first-time quality and effortlessly deliver all necessary information for shop floor execution. 
• Increase your business’s manufacturing agility and reduce your time-to-market by defining and validating assembly processes virtually, before start of production. 
• Leverage the power of model-based planning to improve the speed and accuracy of incorporating engineering and manufacturing changes to assembly lines. 

On cloud / On-premises / Industrial Engineering 

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines. 

• A complete milling solution for complex parts that includes cycles dedicated to hard material strategies specifically designed to reduce machining time. 
• Increase collaboration between designers & NC programmers to improve engineering efficiency. 
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors. 

On cloud / Manufacturing & Production 

Control your bill of manufacture throughout your product’s lifecycle across multiple production routing processes. 

• Create, clone, and edit bills of manufacture and routing data with full control. 
• Collaborate with teams and customers on product variations. 

• Leverage existing item costs and provide the opportunity to add other costing elements like labor, overhead, and start-up to generate an accurate costed bill of manufacture. 
• Communicate and enforce best practices with setup checklists and user-defined forms. 
• Gain full control over the lifecycle of your bill of manufacture documents from creation to obsolescence. 

On cloud / Commercial Content Creation 

Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your products to promote your designs and deliver stunning content for customer engagements. 

• Leverage the Scenes user concept to produce images based on your 3D models in real-time. 

• Make experience level changes, like material refinement, without breaking the link to your product data. 
• Stellar precise preview streaming in your web browser supports superior material appearance and render quality in Global Illumination (GI) mode. 
• Access fully scalable infrastructure for large-scale productions and teams via Render-as-a-Service. 
• Connect and continue working, anytime and anywhere, with no needed client installation. 
• Powered by the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform, pay only for the rendering time and power you need. 

• Harmonize brand identity through look and feel consistency across 2D and 3D experiences. 

On cloud / Commercial Content Creation 

Seeing is believing. Create stunning digital content to showcase product values, enable partners, and win customers. 

• Create rendering productions in xStudio, or real-time presentations in xHighlight without disconnecting from the 3DEXPERIENCE twin. 
• Stage products interactively in global illumination directly in your web browser to produce stunning renderings on-cloud and pay only when a render is triggered. 

• Build interactive product trainings to promote your products in a compelling and engaging way. 
• Create technical illustrations for user-guides or functional product descriptions. 

On cloud / On-premises / Commercial Experience Building 

Present interactive experiences based on the 3DEXPERIENCE Twin for Marketing with 3DPlay at events or at the customer touchpoint. 

• Play and review interactive marketing experiences directly in 3DPlay. 

• Play experiences based on the 3DEXPERIENCE Twin including product animations, configurations, and simulations. 
• Present interactive marketing experiences to visitors or customers in kiosk or event environments. 
• Connect VR and touch devices for the perfect immersive user experience. 
• Creative directors provide feedback and approval at all stages of the interactive experience creation process. 

On cloud / On-premises / Commercial Experience Governance 

Create Once – Reuse Everywhere. Standardized, repeatable, process automation that saves time and effort for marketing model buildup. 

• Define standardized and repeatable data preparation operations that optimize and enrich your product’s geometry, structure, and materials. 
• Share data preparation operations with Marketing Model Creator users to automate their work steps. 

• Synchronize the prepared marketing model efficiently in an integrated environment shared between Design and Marketing. 
• Reuse and share automation know-how across product lines and organizations. 
• Adjust precision and performance for target use-cases using parametric operations.