X3D Scenarios and Case Studies:
Real World Applications - Real World Solutions
X3D has a strong presence internationally and throughout many different industries. From healthcare science to oil exploration, X3D is being deployed for many important as well diverse uses. Our goal is to explore the very multi-faceted nature of X3D from an industry perspective.
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EADS Innovation Works metadata management system based on X3D
While the tool chain and data management is very strict in later phases of aircraft design, there is a plurality of tools and data formats in preliminary development. This allows greater flexibility and creativity, but is hard to handle. EADS challenge was to develop a concept how to set up a metadata management system, which allows consolidation of information from heterogeneous data sources for collaboration, authoring, searches and easy reusability.
A brief excerpt from the customer requirements:
- view CAD data without CAD-System, based on an existing conversion process
- link documents with 3D representation of objects using Drag&Drop
- retrieve and add metadata from/to model parts
- view and change design configurations
- comment design configurations and objects using their 3D representation