- Teamcenter Product visualization and digital mockup software
- Build better products, faster. Streamline design and review cycles, improve communication and increase innovation – across the product lifecycle.
Teamcenter® software’s Lifecycle Visualization suite offers an intuitive “Illustrate” feature that simplifies the creation of technical illustrations for work instructions, maintenance manuals, parts catalogs, and more. By utilizing existing 2D and 3D design assets, this tool helps companies save time, reduce costs, and minimize training efforts. Design changes are automatically synced with illustration content, allowing documentation to start earlier and ensuring greater accuracy throughout the process.
- Use Your Design Data Directly
Teamcenter’s Lifecycle Visualization suite offers the powerful illustrate add-on, designed to streamline technical illustration processes used by leading product innovators. With this feature, companies can produce precise, professional illustrations that support various downstream functions across the enterprise.
The illustrate option maximizes your existing design assets, utilizing CAD data in JT™ format from Siemens PLM systems like NX™ or Solid Edge®—as well as other major CAD systems. It transforms your 2D and 3D data with visual enhancements like images, callouts, symbols, and attributes, all seamlessly managed within Teamcenter’s PDM system.
- Integrated with the Product Development Process
Unlike outdated methods relying on sketches or static snapshots, the illustrate option becomes an integral part of the product development journey. It directly connects technical documentation to design data, ensuring continuity from concept to completion.
Where traditional processes often wait for finalized designs or prototypes, Teamcenter’s illustrate feature allows you to start documentation earlier and keeps the entire process connected. No more bouncing between different tools or reworking layouts—Teamcenter keeps everything in one streamlined environment.
- Easily Incorporate Changes
Design changes are inevitable, and with manual processes, these last-minute adjustments can cause delays or even be overlooked. With Teamcenter’s illustrate option, changes are easily incorporated, ensuring your technical documentation stays in perfect sync with the latest product updates. Tight integration with Teamcenter automatically detects and updates changed assets, keeping everything up to date without time-consuming rework. This ensures your documents are always accurate and ready for release.
- Key Features
- Add-on to Teamcenter’s lifecycle visualization professional or mockup solutions. 3D geometry assets (3D snapshots including annotations and markups) are captured to the clipboard and remain linked to the original JT file. You can capture geometry assets from Teamcenter lifecycle visualization applications, such as realistic appearances from lifecycle visualization concept or results data from lifecycle visualization quality, and manage them with Teamcenter
- Familiar Microsoft Visio authoring environment allows WYSIWYG dragand-drop of 3D content plus rulers, grids, stencils and advanced alignment tools (Visio license not included)
- Technical illustrations include text, 2D and 3D graphics, annotations and tables
- Portfolios include collections of technical illustrations and can contain consistent header and footer information as well as tables of contents. You can print or export to Visio, HTML and other formats.
- Callouts and the symbol manager (from Teamcenter lifecycle visualization) enable users to create and use custom icon and symbol libraries to meet company documentation standards
- Thrustline editor adds clarity for assembly instructions.
- Key Benefits
- Reduce cost and time to create technical illustrations by leveraging existing JT data
- Improve clarity and eliminate errors with easy-to-use 3D tools for outline capture; a simple double-click accesses 3D geometry in Teamcenter lifecycle visualization directly from the final illustration
- Reduce or eliminate rework with instant updates as changes ripple through the change management process
- Eliminate shop floor paper and revision-control issues by delivering managed illustrations in lightweight web format
- Streamline technical illustration through an integrated toolkit of graphics, text editing and layout that eliminates cumbersome and error-prone handoffs between applications
- Deliver illustrations in time for launch by starting earlier than ever before without waiting for final design