With the funStep standard, communications, interoperability, and innovation should come easily. Nevertheless, software vendors are still pushing their proprietary solutions and delaying information openness. The exchange of geometry and computer-aided design (CAD) data is one of the most prominent barriers still remaining. End users experience many difficulties trying to read geometry files from other systems and most of the times have to pay for expensive solutions that deal with it. CAD vendors generally claim to be interoperable through the usage of translators, yet their formats remain closed and are only partially exchangeable with different systems (1)
This problem is many times transported to users that don't really need the full complexity of a rich CAD drawing. Users might just need a 'light' view on the geometry, and visualization data would be sufficient enabling to adapt the information to their needs, e.g. show geographical information on a map instead of on complex tables (2)
Maybe not all industrial stakeholders that need to deal with geometry, need the full complexity of AP236 geometry modules. Therefore, one of the actual challenges on this area is a creation of a solution that regardless of the format of the geometry exchanged can show the information accordingly with the goals of the worker. Thus capable of simplifying the complex geometry based product data in a way accessible to all. Activities like virtual simulation would be accessible to all, thus enabling optimization and sustainability.
(1) Dalton-Taggart R, 2007, Interoperability - The CAD Vendors Speak Out, CADCAMNet magazine, retrieved on 24 September 2008.(2)Van Wijk JJ, Views on Visualization, 2006, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12 no.4, pp. 421-433, Jul/Aug, 2006.
GeoDED Visualizer, is that solution!
GeoDED is an acronym to Open Visualizer for Geometry Data Encoded in DWG Format, a tool used to enable open visualization of product data geometry in Autodesk® DWG format.
The objective of visualization is the improvement of information flow and communication throughout the product life cycle. It is an easy way to communicate complex geometry-based product information to non-CAD users. It is not intended to replace or overlap CAD systems functionalities, moreover, it is not intended to replace actual CAD data exchanges but rather complement it in those cases where the data receiver does not need all the information and knowledge included in a rich CAD data model.
Visualization data is destined for data consumer rather than for a data creator or updater.It is to be considered as terminal data and, so, it cannot be re-imported in a CAD model
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