We are pleased to announce that Glovius now supports 3D Connexxion’s 3D Mouse.
A 3D mouse provides smooth and configurable navigation of your components and is really helpful while navigating large 3D components.
Plugin your 3D Mouse; fire up Glovius and make your work in 3D effortless, fast and fun !
You can download the mouse drivers from here.
Technical Drawings or 2D drawings as they are popularly known convey lot of instantly glance-able information. Due to the international adoption of drawing standards these drawings are especially useful in collaboration by capturing the geometric features of the components. We had many of our users asking for support to 2D files.
Today, we are happy to announce Glovius 2D – a free* DWG and DXF file viewer.
Glovius 2D Viewer is free for all Glovius customers. Download Glovius and give the 2D Viewer a try.
Glovius 2D Viewer
Here are the top features of Glovius 2D :
Download Glovius 2D along with Glovius here .
*Glovius 2D is free for all our customers and uses the same license as Glovius.
** CATDrawing to PDF is in the works. Stay tuned.
We hold our mission “3D for Everyone, Everywhere” steadfast and plan to make your workflows simpler with Glovius as we start the New Year.
Some tidbits from 2016 –
Happy 2017!
Sridhar Oruganti,
Product Manager, Glovius
Many Glovius users are from Purchasing and Should Costing teams. Product designers need to identify unproductive manufacturing costs early in the product life cycle. Designers and Sourcers are faced with stringent cost targets as companies optimize to provide maximum product value.
Should-Cost analysis helps in these scenarios and empowers product manufacturers to break down costs analytically and iterate based on the cost structure. According to some estimates, conducting Should Costing reviews can reduce the cost of total systems by 5 to 15 percent and sub systems cost by up to 40 percent!
Glovius offers a number of tools to help calculate the cost of manufacturing of a component.
Create a Bill of Materials Report in Glovius
Generate a part level Bill of Materials report in CSV format and import it in Microsoft Excel. The report contains the dimensions of the component, quantity, material (if specified) and serves as a start point for your Should-Cost calculations. For parts, use the Analyse dialog to instantly get the component bounds, mass properties and other relevant information.
Compare revisions in Glovius
If you receive an iteration of a previous component – use the Compare tool and find the differences in 3D design to calculate the delta value in cost accordingly. Use the measure tool to better understand the changes. You can also save the comparison results in PDF for sharing and collaboration.
Component visibility tools in Glovius
Use the Component Visibility tools from the View tab to focus on a specific component. You can Select and Isolate any component for a clear understanding of its design.
We hope this post gets you started on Should Costing analysis for your components. Please contact us at support@glovius.com if you have any feedback, questions or suggestions.
Glovius 4.4 is available for download. In this release, we have added bunch of new features and squashed many bugs. Glovius now has a refreshed UI, Explode tool, ability to Measure during Sectioning and a new way to share mark-ups and collaborate faster with your team.
View parts and assemblies created in CATIA V5-6 2016 and Inventor 2017 with Glovius for Windows Release 4.4.
New icons and a refreshed ribbon bar layout.
Sometimes, you need a lower or higher precision during measurement and BOM reports. You can now set the number of decimal places based on your requirement.
Many of Glovius customers use Dropbox and Box for storing CAD files in the cloud. You can now directly open your 3D models from Dropbox and Box from the File > Open dialog.
Sectioning is one of our top features in Glovius. However, most of our users want to section and measure components at the same time. Now you can cut sections and measure by turning off the plane and measure the components.
Explosion helps us understand assembly structure and gives us a peek inside the component architecture. We have rewritten and improved “Explode” in Glovius. It uses the Product Structure and Coordinate axes to explode components.
We have made it simpler to share design review comments and notes with your team. Open a CAD model, add markup and share just the COLLAB file. When your team member opens the CAD model and the COLLAB file, Glovius loads all the markups and notes contained within.
Glovius for Windows Release 4.4 is now available for download. Register and download a free 7-day trial to view, measure, section, markup and compare 3D models from popular CAD formats like CATIA V5 and V6, NX, Pro/ENGINEER and Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, STEP, IGES and more.
Subscription customers can upgrade to the new release immediately. License customers who have purchased Glovius after August, 2015 can upgrade to the new release free of charge.
Please contact us at support@glovius.com if you have any questions.
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