Quality product documentation is vital to your organization’s success and critical for your customers, suppliers, distributors and employees. The key to effective product documentation for complex equipment, is integrated 3D communications. Whether it’s for maintenance, customer support, operational procedures or training, 3D communications provide intuitive, knowledge transfer, that users ‘get’ easily. However, traditional product documentation methods are error prone, costly and slow.

Cortona3D RapidAuthor is a powerful cost-effective authoring suite giving organizations the flexibility to produce all support documentation such as interactive Parts Catalogs, Maintenance Manuals, Training Materials and Work Instructions. The tools included in the suite enable organizations to reuse existing CAD data or other 3D source material, to author interactive 3D visualizations for more effective support documentation, dramatically reducing effort and timelines. It's intuitive interface enables users with no 3D expertise, to create compelling simulations and associated text simultaneously. Tools in the suite include:

         
RapidCatalog produces digital, interactive illustrated parts catalogs that use 3D ‘explosions’ to illustrate complex mechanical assemblies. Its interactive 3D environment with drill down navigation improves the user experience and puts an end to ordering and purchasing errors. It cuts catalog production costs by reusing existing CAD data and produces a better parts catalog that, in turn, reduces the number of customer support inquiries.

RapidLearning combines existing CAD assets with training documentation to produce digital, interactive training applications that use animated 3D simulations. These can be used as standalone applications or integrated with existing SCORM-compliant Learning Management Systems. Research has proven time and again that interactive 3D learning improves comprehension, retention and on-the-job performance and costs less than product mockups, physical simulations, and other active learning approaches.
 

RapidWorkInstruction is the first ‘out of the box’ toolkit for fast and easy production of digital interactive work instructions, job cards and assembly instructions. It re-uses content direct from engineering CAD enabling the rapid creation of the MBOM and bill of process. Manufacturing engineers can quickly and easily create 3D animations ensuring that assembly workers, even in off-shore locations, know what to do and how to do it – a visual
explanation delivered in a work instruction saves time and increases effectiveness.