SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author

Use

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author is a desktop application used to manage 2D, 3D, animation, video and audio assets, and it supports opening and importing all supported CAD file formats.

A number of different tools allow you to explore, view, transform, optimize, animate, and publish in a number of formats.

While searching for files, you can carry out other activities, and you are alerted when files are found for file preview and file download selection. You can also keep track of your viewed images and select the most recent. The application encompasses industry leading, consistent file conversion, and an SDK is available to create custom graphics, management, and manipulation tools.

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author uses metadata to display a variety of graphics information.

For example, you can view the number of vertices, sub-objects and the texture bitmaps in a drawing. You can pan, rotate, and zoom to explore 3D models, add comments, cameras and lights, and you can view object details, sub-objects and textures.

Features

Some of the numerous features include the following:

  • Integration with SAP DMS

  • Integration with SAP Engineering Control Center

  • Rapid import processing

  • 3D objects and materials browse capability

  • 3D model and texture search

  • File history browse facility

  • Effortless organization of 3D models

  • Display and hide separate objects

  • Multiple viewports

  • Gradient and image background, and shadow display

  • Object position controls

  • Thumbnail generation

  • Built-in export features

  • Batch processing

  • Creation of user-defined views based on the current scene view

  • Easy management of plug-ins, registration, and licensing

  • Full-screen display mode with auto-hide toolbars

  • Export to Universal 3D format (.u3d) and then insert the .u3d file into Adobe PDF documents

  • Utilizing Layers to group scene objects into a single hierarchy level

  • Background images can be added to scenes

  • Distance measurements between elements or within a single element

  • Creation of preset 3D objects (primitives) including spheres, stairs, gears, and archways

  • Ability to alter 3D objects while keeping file sizes to a minimum

  • Object instancing

  • Advanced material display

See SAP Note 1787261 Information published on SAP site for information on corrections made after the documentation has been delivered.