Highlights of 2006 Products

The 2006 line of products offers an incredible set of new features that help you author creative page designs or publish media from 3D models.

What's new in Pages3D 2006? [more][upgrade]

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Modernized User Interface Watch video

Author documents and work with models seamlessly with the new Pages3D interface. Using dynamic tabs that become visible as needed, the tools you need will always be readily available. Property tabs with rollouts have replaced  pop-up dialogs throughout the software.

Active Help  

A simple help panel integrated with the authoring environment displays relevant help topics as you use the program. Quickly and easily find the information you need to create powerful document and publish 3D.

Layout pages with precision Watch video

Use new precision tools to author the exact document you require. Setup multiple columns, align and distribute multiple objects and type in object dimensions. Also, 2006 includes page zoom, page rulers, and snap-to-guide capabilities.

Professional Text and Table Support  Watch video

Pagse3D 2006 includes a complete overhaul to the text capabilities. In addition, insert custom tables on a page. Support for most character styles, paragraph styles, bullet and numbering and UNICODE characters.

Import Text from Microsoft Word

Leverage your current documents by quickly importing Word file (.doc) into a text box. Imported text retains the formatting from the Word document.

Enhanced Document Tools

Create sections to organize your document and automatically number pages. Add headers and footers to your documents.

Improved "Active Tables" 

Active Tables can be added to documents to leverage meta-data from your 3D CAD files. With this release, these tables now support multiple columns of information.

Precise 3D view setup

Use 3D viewpoint tools to select a view location from a library of industry standard axonometric views. Create precision custom views by dialing in rotation and offset angles.

Powerful 3D Reduction Tools Watch video

Reduce the size and increase the performance of interactive documents published to PDF, web, executable or CD-ROM.

New Timeline Editor Watch video

Create discrete step-by-step instructions from a 3D models; use the timeline editor to easily modify the timing between steps.

New Storyboard Editor Watch video

Organize 3D snapshots into an ordered list of "key frames". Using this visual editor, you can quickly modify timing and transitions between snapshots to create a custom animation.

Custom Bill-of-Materials Editor

Create custom part lists, or bill-of-materials from your 3D CAD models in a snap. This full-featured editor includes features that let you choose custom numbering settings, create a BOM from a subassembly, reorder the list of parts, add columns, add custom entries, override quantities and call-numbers and much more. Bill-of-materials tools even support part properties such as phantom, reference, purchased and inseparable.

Export Bill-of-Materials to CSV

Save your bill-of-materials as a CSV file for easy import into Excel. BOMs can be matched to snapshots and callouts providing an easy way to keep illustrations and associated BOMs organized.

Model Editing Tools

• Tools to easily reduce polygons in large models to improve performance and reduce final file size.

• Continue to create discrete step-by-step instructions, but edit individual step timing with the new timeline editor.

• Add visual trails to show exploded view or animation paths.

• Support for a new scaling step type. This allows users to animate things such as springs.

• Support for a new face axis option for step creation. This will let users created offsets and rotations that are off-axis from the main axis coordinate system.

• Custom bill-of-materials creation and organization tools

• Support for phantom parts and other BOM concepts. Once a part is defined as a certain type, BOMs treat each differently.

• Support for overriding item quantities in a bill-of-materials.

• Ability to create multiple custom BOMs in a single document. These BOMs can each be created from a user selected set of parts, a sub-assembly or the entire model.

• BOMs includes the ability to choose starting call number and to manually modify callouts in a BOM as necessary.

• Support for “non-part” entries in a Bill of Materials (BOM).

• Render style includes transparency settings.

• Storyboard tool to easily set up timing and transitions between snapshots

Templates

• Save custom templates from Pages3D.

• Use custom templates in Publisher3D and Pages3D

Inventor Support

• Support for presentation files and exploded views created in Inventor.

• Ability to directly import BOMs created with Inventor.

What's new in Publisher3D 2006? [more][upgrade]

New Product Combination Watch video

Publisher3D 2006 combines the model editing capabilities of Notes3D 2004 with the 3D publishing features of Publisher3D 2004 to create a single, powerful product the streamlines the publishing of 3D information.

Modernized User Interface

Import, edit and publish 3D models seamlessly with the new Publisher3D interface. Using dynamic tabs that become visible as needed, the tools you need will always be readily available. Property tabs with rollouts have replaced  pop-up dialogs throughout the software.

Powerful 3D Publishers

Publish 3D models to high-resolution images, AVIs, Flash, HTML and more. This release includes new support for TIFF formatted images. If you have the Professional version of Publisher3D you can use templates to publish interactive 3D documents as web pages, executables, CDs, and even 3D PDF documents.

Precise 3D view setup

Use 3D viewpoint tools to select a view location from a library of industry standard axonometric views. Create precision custom views by dialing in rotation and offset angles.

Powerful 3D Reduction Tools Watch video

Reduce the size and increase the performance of interactive documents published to PDF, web, executable or CD-ROM.

New Timeline Editor Watch video

Create discrete step-by-step instructions from a 3D models; use the timeline editor to easily modify the timing between steps.

New Storyboard Editor Watch video

Organize 3D snapshots into an ordered list of "key frames". Using this visual editor, you can quickly modify timing and transitions between snapshots to create a custom animation.

Custom Bill-of-Materials Editor

Create custom part lists, or bill-of-materials from your 3D CAD models in a snap. This full-featured editor includes features that let you choose custom numbering settings, create a BOM from a subassembly, reorder the list of parts, add columns, add custom entries, override quantities and call-numbers and much more. Bill-of-materials tools even support part properties such as phantom, reference, purchased and inseparable.

Export Bill-of-Materials to CSV

Save your bill-of-materials as a CSV file for easy import into Excel. BOMs can be matched to snapshots and callouts providing an easy way to keep illustrations and associated BOMs organized.

Model Editing Tools

• Tools to easily reduce polygons in large models to improve performance and reduce final file size.

• Continue to create discrete step-by-step instructions, but edit individual step timing with the new timeline editor.

• Add visual trails to show exploded view or animation paths.

• Support for a new scaling step type. This allows users to animate things such as springs.

• Support for a new face axis option for step creation. This will let users created offsets and rotations that are off-axis from the main axis coordinate system.

• Custom bill-of-materials creation and organization tools

• Support for phantom parts and other BOM concepts. Once a part is defined as a certain type, BOMs treat each differently.

• Support for overriding item quantities in a bill-of-materials.

• Ability to create multiple custom BOMs in a single document. These BOMs can each be created from a user selected set of parts, a sub-assembly or the entire model.

• BOMs includes the ability to choose starting call number and to manually modify callouts in a BOM as necessary.

• Support for “non-part” entries in a Bill of Materials (BOM).

• Render style includes transparency settings.

• Storyboard tool to easily set up timing and transitions between snapshots

Templates

• Save custom templates from Pages3D.

• Use custom templates in Publisher3D and Pages3D

Inventor Support

• Support for presentation files and exploded views created in Inventor.

• Ability to directly import BOMs created with Inventor.

What's new in Document3D Suite 2006? [more][upgrade]

QuadriSpace Document3D includes all of the upgrades for both Pages3D and Publisher3D. In addition Document3D now include the 3D PDF Module.

What's new in Reader3D 2006? [free download]

QuadriSpace Reader3D received two major upgrades. Major updates were included for the user interface; also, Reader3D can now open QuadriSpace Models (QSM) as well as QuadriSpace Documents (QSD).

Service Packs

2006 SP1, What's new

2006 SP2, What's new