| Adobe announced Acrobat 3D, finally. This
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| | Bain)
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| is their first foray into 3D. I wrote
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| | 5. think3 with ThinkDesign, ThinkID,
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| earlier that they are missing the boat on
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| | ThinkTeam - all mid-range products.
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| 3D.
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| | Given that any 3D Viewer product such as
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| The premise of Acrobat 3D is to enable
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| | Acrobat 3D will need to pass through a
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| smooth collaboration amongst various non
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| | CAD-engineer's hands, to be written into
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| CAD users within the organization's
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| | an Acrobar readable format, it is safe to
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| workflow i.e. sales, marketing, visual
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| | assume that having deep-pocket CAD
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| merchandising, channel management, etc.
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| | relationships would be immensely
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| who traditionally could not view designs
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| | valuable.
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| in 3D. With 2D pictures of 3D products,
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| | So, let us see who has what in terms of
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| much data is lost, making the process
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| | viwers:
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| inefficient and unproductive.
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| | Autodesk has DWF. No one else has
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| For a while now, CRM and PLM vendors have
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| | anything else. However, there are some
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| been looking for a good bridge. The only
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| | independent viewers out there, Right
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| one that existed so far was Autodesk's
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| | Hemisphere and TornadoVIZ. In fact, it is
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| DWF, which works with AutoCAD / Inventor
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| | Right Hemisphere's technology that
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| design files.
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| | enables Acrobat 3D, Adobe Ventures has an
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| However, in the Mechanical Design
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| | investment in the company along with
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| marketplace, the major houses are:
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| | Sequoia Capital, and it would be safe to
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| 1. Dassault, which owns CATIA (high-end
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| | assume that Adobe will buy this company
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| 3D CAD), Solidworks (mid-market 3D CAD),
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| | eventually.
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| a PDM called SmarTeam, and a PLM product
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| | I have heard, however, that Acrobat 3D is
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| called Enovia, which IBM Global Services
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| | a very heavy product. In comparison,
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| sells and integrated.
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| | TornadoVIZ has a very light-weight
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| 2. Parametric, which owns ProE (high-end
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| | technology, which would, by and large,
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| 3D CAD) and Windchill (PLM)
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| | need to be an essential characteristic of
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| 3. Autodesk
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| | any 3D viewer such as the ones under
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| 4. UGS (recently LBO'd by SIlverlake and
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| | discussion.
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