SolidWorks Composer

What is SolidWorks Composer?

SolidWorks Composer is a Visual Product Communication tool that leverages your existing CAD and transforms it into a magnitude of publications.

Imagine having the ability to start all your documentation while your product is still undergoing design! Composer will change forever the way you create, update and distribute rich product communications. By reusing digital product definition data including 3D design data and bills-of-material information, Composer revolutionizes the product documentation process for enterprises of all sizes.

You spend a lot of time making 3D models; get the most out of your efforts. With SolidWorks Composer the possibilities are limitless and the user interface is designed to be operated by anyone. By leveraging the power of 3D, you can provide your customers, partners, and stakeholders with more clear, easily understandable product communications that significantly improve their ability to understand and retain complex information.

Interactive Deliverables

Online Part Manual

Regardless if you need part manuals or maintenance manuals for internal or external purposes SolidWorks Composer will leverage your exciting CAD data and give you the power to create streamlined HTML Vector based technical manuals with interactive BOM’s, hyperlinking to any document and interactive animated 3D models.
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Interactive Assembly Instruction

Interactive assembly instructions. Need we say more? Using the free SolidWorks Composer Player you can have every computer within your corporation and your customers empowered with the power of 3D. Play a step, repeat it, rotate it and look inside, then proceed to the next when you’re ready. No more watching recorded videos and having to stop and rewind it.
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Interactive Animations

Videos and animations are nice, but wouldn’t it be nice to have an animation that you can rotate, zoom and dissect at any time? SolidWorks Composer makes this possible – static animation rules need not apply!
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Interactive Replacement Manual

Give your customers or the assemblers on the shop floor the ability to virtually assemble, disassemble and even customize product configurations on the fly while utilizing the free SolidWorks Composer Player and take in the entire SolidWorks Composer interactive experience.
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Static Deliverables

Operation Manual

Need to print out your documentation? No problem! SolidWorks Composer is compatible with all technical writing software while still keeping an associative link back to the original CAD data. SolidWorks Composer is capable of embedding 3D interactive models straight into a PDF or export high resolution raster images which are then linked into any document of your choosing.
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Video Animations

SolidWorks Composer offers a fully automated and intuitive timeline-based interface so anyone can create controlled video animation.
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Marketing Images

With SolidWorks Composer’s cutting-edge rendering engine, it literally takes seconds to produce marketing images, saving you time and resources.
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The SolidWorks Composer Concept
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Who's using SolidWorks Composer?

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Video Case Studies

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SolidWorks Composer
Recognize 3D as an important virtual asset and put it to work for your organization. With SolidWorks Composer, individuals in manufacturing, technical publications, marketing, and training are able to repurpose 3D data to create accurate graphics and interactive content early in the design process.

Case Studies

	Case Study: Canuck Completions Canuck Completions specializes in developing and sourcing today's most innovative and reliable downhole tools, especially for the oil and mining industries. SolidWorks Composer was the best solution for the engineering and marketing teams to save time and reduce translation errors by creating better documentation, animated videos, and marketing images.
	Case Study: OMAX Ranked as one of the top U.S. companies for manufacturing precision abrasive waterjet machining equipment, OMAX is utilizing SolidWorks Composer to create technical documentation with less equipment and personnel.
	Case Study: Kvichak Marine Recognized as a worldwide leader in the design and construction of high quality, hardworking aluminum vessels, Kvichak Marine is using SolidWorks Composer to integrate content from SolidWorks with their existing ERP system to create a seamless flow through the design and production phases.
	Case Study: LeMond Fitness As the first American to win the Tour de France, Greg LeMond transformed the world of cycling with his dedication, enthusiasm and innovation. With SolidWorks Composer, LeMond Fitness is transforming their technical documentation proficiency to unheard of levels, with an 80% increase in time savings when creating and updating their documentation.
	Case Study: AREVA Ranked #1 in the global nuclear power industry, AREVA is using SolidWorks Composer to utilize their 3D data to graphically show, with animations, what their customers are receiving.
	Case Study: Azure A world leader in the development and production of hybrid electric and electric commercial vehicles, AZD successfully moved forward using the high quality images created by SolidWorks Composer in their marketing content. Leveraging the 3D data allowed AZD to create views and images that were previously considered impossible to create with photographs.
	Case Study: Unifiller Unifiller, a world leader in the baking, depositing, and cake-building technology, uses SolidWorks Composer to make high quality work instructions faster and easier than ever before.
	Case Study: Brayton Brayton Energy is a leading developer of innovative energy applications that combine abundant renewable fuels with a gas turbine – the technology used to power jet aircraft engines. By selecting SolidWorks Premium 3D CAD sofware and SolidWorks Composer documentation software, Brayton Energy has been able to maintain its edge as an innovator in gas turbine technology.
	Case Study: Cardiovascular Systems Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI), is revolutionizing vascular disease treatments with sophisticated, high-tech devices that doctors use to treat patients who do not respond well to traditional therapies such as angioplasty. By adding SolidWorks Composer software to its SolidWorks product development solution, Cardiovascular Systems has improved the effectiveness of its assembly instructions and sales training materials.
	Case Study: Cardiovascular Systems Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) is revolutionizing the treatment of vascular disease through the development of a disposable, diamond-coated catheter-based device. Utilizing the principle of centrifugal force, CSI’s device orbits the interior wall of the artery at speeds of 200,000 revolutions per minute and grinds away up to 90 percent of the plaque creating the obstruction – a procedure known as orbital atherectomy. A new version of the Diamondback 360® OAD System, which is cleared by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in limb arteries, will begin clinical trials for the treatment of coronary artery disease in 2010.
	Case Study: KaVo For more than 100 years, KaVo has provided top quality, innovative technology and equipment to dentists and dental technicians. With more than 3,300 employees in over 21 countries around the world, the company is one of the recognized leaders in the global dental marketplace, thanks to a legacy of introducing innovative, high-tech equipment, including chairs, cabinets, imaging systems, laboratory equipment, diagnostics, lasers, instruments, and more.
	Case Study: Hayssensandiacre HayssenSandiacre, a Barry-Wehmiller Company, is the global leader in form fill seal (FFS) packaging technology, with more than 10,000 HayssenSandiacre bagging and packaging machines in use worldwide. To extend its reputation for quality and innovation to the production of operator manuals and product documentation, HayssenSandiacre needs a technical communications solution that is faster, more visual, easier to understand and less dependent on language translations and digital photography..
	Case Study: KaVo As part of its ongoing program of continuous improvements, KaVo wanted to increase the value and usability of its technical documentation for product assembly. Engineers were creating assembly drawings from KaVo’s 3D CATIA models and converting them to PDF files for use by workers in production. But information on the PDFs was not detailed enough to ensure that all aspects for high quality assembly were detected fast enough and without further assistance from the engineering departments.
	Case Study: 3DMP 3DMP (3D Marketing & Production) is a recently formed company in France that specializes in multimedia and audiovisual tools. Part of Master Image, specialists in corporate branding and creators of documentaries, publicity for television, and corporate films, 3DMP provides services to marketing and communication teams of companies that need expertise in 3D digital imaging and animations.
	Case Study: Mustard Longline AS As the leader in automated longlining systems—with more than 90 percent of the world’s market share—Mustad Longline strives to offer reliable, innovative equipment to its customers. In 2000, management decided to evaluate whether a move from the AutoCAD® 2D design tools that Mustad engineers had used to a 3D CAD system would increase productivity and spur development.
	Case Study: Zesar Winning new business in a global economy can be difficult for small, family-owned manufacturers like Zesar. The Turkish company competes in a highly competitive niche market: developing custom machinery for battery production. Zesar’s machines automate the production of batteries for both automotive and marine use.

White Papers

White Paper: Streamlining Product Documentation Across the Manufacturing Enterprise with SolidWorks Composer
For many years, manufacturers simply had to accept more time delays and greater costs as they developed product documentation in multiple languages to support growing global markets. But today, product developers are gaining competitive advantage, saving time, and cutting costs with a new class of integrated software tools. With 3D authoring software like SolidWorks Composer, your company can use 3D CAD data to automate the product documentation process— without modifying product designs. By addressing the changing nature of CAD data, this associative documentation tool seamlessly and effortlessly keeps your documentation up to date.

SolidWorks Composer Technical Documentation Training

SolidWorks Composer (2 day)
Learn the fundamental skills and concepts to use SolidWorks Composer software to create 2D and 3D output from CAD design data. Discover how to create views such as vector line art and raster images. Explore creating animations that could be used for service/assembly procedures, marketing, training and more. It will be the best two days of training you will ever receive. Our customers have raved about this class.

Introduction: Discover SolidWorks Composer

SolidWoks Composer® software enables you to easily create 2D and 3D graphical content directly from your 3D CAD files for your product technical communications. Visit the SolidWorks Composer Learning Center to get started with tutorials that show the fundamentals of using SolidWorks Composer, and even more detailed operations.