Virtual Design Reviews
Virtual Design Reviews that accelerate Engineering Collaboration, reduce IT overheads, and give everyone a chance to provide contextual design feedback in a central and secure environment.
The challenge: Legacy design review and collaboration workflows are slowing down today’s Engineering and Design teams. Dependency on CAD and PLM software creates massive barriers for non-engineering stakeholders. CAD, PLM, and even CAD Viewers are cumbersome to use and limit the number of participants who can contribute feedback to design reviews.
In-person design reviews are an excellent way to collaborate, but there’s scope for improvement. Not everyone who should participate can participate on a set date and time. This makes scheduling difficult and delays design review meetings, thereby increasing iteration time. Plus, it’s not always possible to get your best people to participate.
Offline tools like emails, presentations, and group messaging apps help out a bit but leave feedback scattered across apps and documents. Collating feedback is manual and difficult, resulting in some feedback that is always left out.
Today’s Engineering teams need a modern, secure, and unified approach to visual collaboration that’s affordable. Glovius Sync is a central purpose-built virtual design review tool that helps solve these problems, making teams smarter, more efficient, inclusive, and collaborative.
Virtual Design Reviews
- Conduct virtual design reviews in three simple steps: upload your designs, invite participants, and start your design review.
- All participants get a full CAD design context. Experts can identify risks early and provide more detailed and thorough feedback, making design reviews more meaningful and collaborative.
- All participants can review designs on their own time, irrespective of time zones or place of work. Everyone contributes on their own schedule, making reviews more thoughtful and constructive while saving time and energy for in-person discussions.
- Collect design feedback before, between, or after meetings. Start a virtual design review before a meeting even starts, give reviewers access to CAD designs ahead of time, and spend more time discussing feedback rather than collecting it.
CAD in the Browser
- View CAD designs in the browser without licenses, software installation, or CAD/PDF/PPT file downloads. Sharing CAD files is as easy as sharing a link.
- View popular 2D and 3D CAD formats including CATIA, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, STEP, IGES, JT, DWG, DXF, and CATDrawing.
- Sync optimizes CAD files for the browser so complex parts and large assemblies can be opened easily. No CAD file downloads or sharing are required, helping keep data secure.
- Zoom, pan, and rotate designs. Take measurements and cut sections. View Product Structure, Attributes, and Metadata.
- View Bounding Box dimensions, materials, manufacturing processes, and the Bill of Materials.
AI DFM Review
DFM Review, powered by Gemini, runs a first-pass check using AI trained on design standards and industry best practices. Identify errors, review suggestions and non-conformances, and get a running start for your design reviews with AI-powered DFM analysis.
Markup Tools
- Add Pins, Capture View States, Redline, and add Text comments and markups.
- Feedback is automatically saved with full design context, including the exact camera angle and zoom level.
- Pin feedback directly on 3D models. Each pin saves the exact view state so recipients see the model as you saw it.
- All feedback is instantly available for participants to view and discuss. Mention colleagues and reply to comments.
- Run Gemini-powered DFM analysis and review the Bill of Materials, bounding box dimensions, design metadata, attributes, and more.
Secure Data Sharing
- Collaborate securely with suppliers while keeping design data secure without slowing collaboration.
- Give teammates and suppliers controlled, browser-based access to review the latest design versions without sharing files, providing CAD licenses, or setting up FTP servers.
Review Tracking, Action Items, and Documentation
- Track and organize feedback. Every time someone provides feedback, it is instantly visible for everyone to see and discuss.
- Request feedback and add participants. Sync will automatically remind each participant to provide feedback.
- Move important issues and feedback to an actionable TODO list, separate from the comments feed.
- Generate a Design Review Report. Download a PDF containing every comment and piece of feedback, CAD design information, metadata, and other review details for documentation and assigning action items.