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Demonstrating the 3D Technical Authoring of Illustrated Parts Catalogs

INTERACTIVE 3D PARTS CATALOGS / ELECTRONIC SPARE PARTS CATALOGUES / ONLINE PARTS CATALOGS

Do you face escalating sales support costs, loss of revenue to aftermarket competition and laborious Spare Parts Catalog development that is error prone and simply does not enable the user to easily identify the relevant part and all associated data?

Cortona3D RapidCatalog is the first ‘out of the box’ toolkit for the fast and easy production of 3D Illustrated Parts Catalogs (IPC) / Electronic Parts Catalogs (EPC) / Online Interactive Parts Catalogues. RapidCatalog uses 3D ‘explosions’ to communicate complex assemblies that everyone can understand. Its interactive environment with drill down navigation improves the user experience and puts an end to ordering and purchasing errors, inefficiency and lack of productivity.

Benefits at a glance... 

  • Increase aftermarket revenue and customer loyalty
  • Cut Parts Catalog production and maintenance costs
  • Minimize customer errors and product returns
  • Generate 2D images of your 3D explosions
  • Attach existing CGM images to your parts catalog
  • Minimize support costs as users can self-serve
  • Increase competitive advantage on ‘total product’
  • Lower order processing costs
  • Improve productivity                                more...
     

CREATE AN INTERACTIVE 3D ONLINE PARTS CATALOG / ELECTRONIC PARTS CATALOGUE / ILLUSTRATED SPARE PARTS RAPIDLY

RapidCatalog provides an easy-to-use, intuitive framework..

Easy to identify spare parts within assemblies and their associated meta data

1. Create a new Illustrated Parts Catalog (IPC) page

2. Explode parts using three-step wizard

3. Choose the part information to be displayed on the published IPC page

4. Set explosion triggers

5. Publish the finished Illustrated Parts Catalog / Electronic Parts Catalogue / Digital Parts Catalog as a stand-alone page or integrate into existing systems

6. Link with third-party ordering and customer support services. 

What’s the result? 

The impact of 3D interactive online Illustrated Parts Catalog / Electronic Spare Parts Catalogue is powerful and immediate, saving time and money on servicing, spare parts and repairs. 

HOW THE INTERACTIVE 3D ONLINE PARTS CATALOGS / ELECTRONIC SPARE PARTS CATALOG WORKS -

'Visual Know-How' for Accurate Part Identification/Ordering 

Interactive environment with drill down functionality is simple to

navigate and eliminates costly errors

 

• Interactive Bill of Materials link to 3D views – click on either text or 3D object to graphically highlight and verify all associated part details

• User can manipulate, rotate and zoom around 3D models

• Intuitive drill down navigation, user can watch object disassemble and reveal individual parts

• View all associated metadata of selected part, easily facilitating correct identification of part.

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Read what our customers have to say
 

“Immediately, we cut authoring from eight hours per page down to one hour.

Now we’re even faster, as we’re more familiar with the tool. Cortona 3D gives us a unified authoring space where we import UGS Teamcenter or other CAD graphic sources and Excel parts lists. We give parts and assemblies interactive 3D capabilities and can crosslink any item to any other item. We enable users to filter by model, service bulletins, and user codes to enhance search and ease of use. The tool also supplies digital output in SGML, HTML and XML.

We used to manually import, edit, redraw and page-reference many iterations of engineering drawings, parts lists and instructions from many sources. This formerly took two writers and a number of illustrators two years to complete. What we once redrew and re-described, we now import and link. So the 3D IPC is a far superior tool and it only took nine months with one author and one illustrator to produce. The result is a substantial cost savings.”

"We wanted to ensure that our technical publications products keep pace with our engine technology, providing our customers with cutting-edge products that add value to their airline operations.”

“Integrating the 3D IPC’s interactive illustrations with identifiable part names and numbers gives our customers a solution that is more intuitive and much easier to use. The IPC also enables users to generate a purchasing list for ease of parts ordering. Its 3D graphics can be leveraged to various documents and used as training tools.”

“The new 3D IPC is a step improvement over traditional manuals. It has the multiple benefits of being able to identify the parts you are looking for much more quickly, visualize the assembly of parts, and demonstrate the relationship a part has to adjacent parts. It is particularly impressive when using the rotation feature to follow external tube and harness runs around the engine, making it much easier to interpret than traditional manuals. It will offer productivity improvements to mechanics and staff."

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