AutoVue Features and Benefits Table - Oracle

AutoVue Enterprise Visualization
Product Features & Benefits
General Features
Feature
Benefit
Native File Viewing • Reduce IT complexity and lower IT costs as native file viewing is
accomplished by a single application from one vendor.
• Avoid decision making errors
- Caused by using incorrect information created during the
translation process, as native visualization systems have direct
access to the original file information and do not require file
conversion.
- Caused by individuals referring to an incorrect document
version because native files are carefully controlled, translated
derivatives are not.
• Avoid purchases of expensive CAD tools as AutoVue does not
require the authoring applications to view files. Cost-effectively
provide viewing of technical data to all users within a company.
• AutoVue native visualization is simpler which means a lower cost
of ownership.
View hundreds of file
formats with a single
visualization solution
• Reduce training and IT support costs by reducing the number of
different applications that users are expected to learn and which IT
is expected to support and maintain.
• With AutoVue you buy, deploy, install, maintain and train on one
product. With anything else you deploy multiple products (viewers,
translators, conversions systems, cad systems, etc.) which creates
a more expensive and complex IT scenario.
Missing resource
notification
• Avoid decision making errors caused by incomplete information
because users are notified if additional information from a
referenced file is not available.
Output to neutral
conversion file formats,
including: PDF, Tiff,
bitmap, etc.
• Simplify compliance with standards such as ISO, corporate,
contractual or industry that may require documentation in a
particular format by providing a means of producing neutral file
output from virtually any type of source document.
Full Text Extraction -
provides the ability to
obtain all the textual
• Improve ability to locate technical documents automatically
because technical document contents can be provided to document
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information from a
selected file
indexing services, including CAD.
Access engineering and
asset documents while
offline
• Improve maintenance productivity and reduce errors with the ability
to view and markup asset documents while in the offline mode.
Field workers or business travelers can take documents on site or
on the road, work offline, and then update their offline comments or
changes to enterprise systems once they are back online.
• Maintain reliable audit trail of changes by easily capturing all
updates and decisions performed during on site maintenance.
Automatic File
recognition. AutoVue
reads the internal
geometry of a file and
does not rely on the file
extension alone.
• Reduce complexity of maintaining accurate file extensions and
MIME types when documents are downloaded, transferred or
generated because they are not required for user access.
2D Visualization
Feature
Text searches on 2D
vector and text-based
documents.
Benefit
• Improve ability to reliably locate the presence of specific
information in large, complex, multi-page technical documents.
Precise 2D
measurements
• Reduce engineering disruption and IT costs by providing self
service access to precise measurements not specifically called out
on drawings without relying on CAD software.
2D File Compare • Avoid decision making errors caused by incorrect approvals of
changes because change approvers can verify the full extent of
changes made to complex technical documents.
• Significantly improve design review productivity by easily
identifying the delta between the revised file versions using
AutoVue’s advanced and intelligent compare capabilities. Users
working with 2D CAD files can accurately and easily align and scale
drawings, which greatly facilitate file comparisons and significantly
improves the review process.
3D Visualization
Feature
Transform or Explode 3D
Models
Benefit
• Avoid decision making errors caused by misunderstanding
complex 3D designs because specific features can be unobstructed
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when presented to users.
Alter the Transparency
level of any part(s) of a
3D model.
• Improve design review efficiency by having greater visibility of all
layers in complex design files
3D Walkthrough • Perform detailed reviews of facilities and building from within,
and explore buildings and structures in a more natural way. Reduce
errors and improve project productivity by exploring building
structure, equipment, piping, electrical layout, to name a few, while
virtually walking through the inside of the facility.
• Significantly improve capital project collaboration and
facilities operations: While in walkthrough mode, users can look
at the attribute data of the complete structure and also add markups
and comments to specific areas of a building or facility which
subsequent reviewers can view within the appropriate context.
Navigate between 3D
models and their
corresponding 2D Drafts
• Save time and reduce errors by having a single source of design
information. Avoid opening other files or referring to paper
drawings.
Create and save userdefined
views
• Avoid decision making errors caused by misunderstanding
complex 3D designs because specific features can be explicitly
presented to users in pre-determined views.
3D Digital mockup • Avoid the expense and time associated with conventional
physical prototypes by creating on-the-fly virtual prototypes and
project real world manufacturability
Interference Checking to
detect spatial
interference of any two
model parts
• Reduce production errors and minimize rework and scrap by
discovering problems early in the design process, long before the
manufacturing stage.
Display Mass Properties
of files: mass, volume,
area, center of gravity,
moments of inertia and
inertia tensor for any
model or selection
• Improve the manufacturing process by having the ability to
determine density and weight for models and parts.
View and display
Product and
Manufacturing
Information (PMI) (also
referred to as Geometric
• Reduce design and fabrication errors resulting from the
misinterpretation of 2D data or paper documents. Important product
specifications can be viewed to ensure that products are
manufactured in compliance with design engineering’s intent.
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Dimensioning and
Tolerance (GDT & GD&T)
or Functional Tolerance
Annotation (FTA or FT&A))
Precise 3D measurement • Reduce engineering disruption and IT costs by providing self
service access to precise measurements without relying on CAD
software. Reliably manufacture with measurement information from
AutoVue.
Intelligent 3D Compare • Avoid bad decisions and costly mistakes caused by incorrect
approval of changes during the manufacturing process by easily
comparing design revisions to identify the full extent of changes that
have been made on complex technical documents between design
revisions.
Electronic Design Automation
Feature
Access Entity Properties
in a schematic drawing
or PCB design
Benefit
• Expedite design reviews by better understanding, exploring and
evaluating the electronic logic stored in a particular design.
Create and/or modify
EDA layer sets
• Accelerate the EDA review process and save time by quickly
locating the appropriate layers from pre-defined layer sets.
Hide or display certain
entity types without
having to hide an entire
layer
• Save time and quickly view required information by turning off
hundreds of layers with only a few clicks of the mouse.
Entity Search • Expedite design review and verification by quickly searching
large files and finding entities for possible replacement or
verification.
EDA File Compare • Significantly improve electronic design review productivity by
easily identifying the delta between the revised file versions using
AutoVue’s advanced and intelligent compare capabilities. Users
working with EDA files can accurately and easily align and scale
drawings, which greatly facilitate file comparisons and significantly
improves the review process.
Display Net Connectivity • Improve board visibility during the design and testing phase by
quickly referencing the connectivity for a particular net.
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3D views of PCB boards • Reduce time and money spent on creating physical prototypes by
quickly generating 3D PCBS which can be used in virtual
prototypes.
Cross probe between a
PCB layout, and its
related schematic
• Maximize design efficiency by navigating from layouts to
schematics in a single view, without having to open and search
individual files directly.
Generate Bills of Material
(BOMs) and obtain a list
of the components and
parts required for
manufacturing the item
• Simplify costing of new products by enabling accounting and
finance to export BOMs to spreadsheets for quick part cost
calculations.
EDA design verification
and checks
• Improve product quality and prevent short circuits and errors
by performing design and clearance checks early in the design
process.
Markups & Annotations
Feature
Markup files without
modifying originals
Benefit
• Speed up the design review and approval process by
communicating and capturing feedback and comments in the
context of the design, without compromising the integrity of the
original document.
2D/3D Measurement
markups displayed on
screen
• Save time by quickly viewing measurements that are frequently
required for manufacturing without having to repeatedly re-measure
specific points of interest.
Sticky Notes &
Attachments
• Improve communication with downstream departments by
including instructions, assembly information or even how-to-videos
with the original file.
Symbols and Sign off
entities
• Enhance update and approval processes by identifying the state
of a document using the appropriate stamp from AutoVue. Also,
users can identify the approval status of markups with the AutoVue
signoff entity.
Printing
Feature
Advanced printing
options: Print Preview,
Benefit
• Save time and paper by ensuring the accuracy of printouts using
the Print Preview feature.
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Full Document, Extents,
etc.
Print Headers/Footers,
Watermark, or Stamps
• Simplify compliance with standards such as ISO, corporate,
contractual or industry that may require printed documentation to
contain date, status and time information by providing a means of
inserting such information onto printouts directly from AutoVue.
Force to Black print
option
• Avoid errors by ensuring that users are looking at complete CAD
drawings and that all lightly colored lines appear on the print out.
Web-based Visualization
Feature
Server installation and
administration
Benefit
• Reduce IT complexity and lower IT costs as installation and
administration occurs on the server, not each desktop.
• Simplify IT maintenance and ensure users are working with the
latest version of AutoVue, as the client browser automatically
detects the availability of a new AutoVue version and installs it.
User access and permission levels can also be performed on the
server.
AutoVue streaming files
and technology
• Protect valuable intellectual property by sharing streaming files
instead of original documents with supply chain partners
• Save IT network and bandwidth resources by transmitting
lightweight streaming files instead of original large sized CAD files.
This method ensures optimized performance & high-speed data
delivery.
Real-Time Collaboration
Feature
Real time collaboration
via the web with multiple
participants. All
participants can add
comments and markups
not only the host.
Benefit
• Reduce language barriers with global partners by using the chat
capability in RTC to communicate with foreign partners.
• Save time and money by avoiding travel to in person design
review meetings, conduct online reviews instead.
• Expedite the design review process with globally dispersed
teams by collaborating via the web in real time.
• Securely share files with outside collaborators. Original files
never leave the server. Only a viewable of the file is transmitted and
no local temp copies or cache file remain on the client machine.
Session Markup file • Improve accountability and tracking of action items and
decisions made during a real time design review session by having
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a complete electronic audit trail of the session.
AutoVue Integrations
Feature
AutoVue VueLink
Integrations
Benefit
• Save development time, costs and resources by using pre-built
AutoVue integrations instead of developing them from scratch.
Benefit from a lower cost of ownership.
AutoVue Integration SDK • Expedite development time and maximize development
resources by using an easy to follow integration framework to
develop AutoVue integrations into any back office or enterprise
system.
AutoVue Web Services • Customers can leverage the power of AutoVue, in whole or in
part, and capitalize on functions like the ability to generate
document thumbnails in a Web portal, feed information contained in
CAD files into search engines or process high volume printing
operations to name a few.
• Develop custom integrations easily in any deployment
environment by using AutoVue’s Web Services based Integration
SDK (iSDK). Customers and system integrators can easily develop
AutoVue integrations in deployment environments, such as .NET,
and C++, in addition to Java, allowing them to take advantage of
AutoVue’s open and extensible integration framework.
Other Productivity Features
Feature
Benefit
Intellistamp • Improve enterprise workflow engines and optimize a company's
approval and update process using Intellistamp.
AutoVue Mobile
Feature
Benefit
AutoVue Mobile • Expedite design reviews and drive secure supply chain
collaboration with an easy mechanism to safely share design files
with outsourced global partners.
• Optimize network bandwidth and efficiently share large CAD files
with partners in limited bandwidth scenarios, as AutoVue Mobile
includes streaming files which are a fraction of the size of the
original document.
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