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3D Experience
We’ve survived the annual event and the sentiment “Wish you were here” is very appropriate. The event, held in the mountains of Black Hawk Colorado, gave everyone a great chance to interact with developers, partners, and others within the Spatial community. In addition to seeing the first snow of the season, attendees got a chance to learn, first hand, what’s new in Spatial’s portfolio and where we are going in the coming year. The event kicked off with Garth Coleman, Senior Director of Strategy for 3DVIA. His keynote presentation, titled Expand Your 3D Experience, presented ideas on how 3D application developers can differentiate a product, message or a company with emerging technologies. In a new session entitled Success within the Spatial Community, attendees were presented with examples of applications leveraging Spatial technologies. Special thanks to our customer presenters: Spatial customers also got to participate in a Panel Discussion lead by David Prawel of Longview Advisors. Covering the state of interoperability and data access, David lead the discussion which highlighted ideas on dealing with different data sources, a myriad of 3D data formats, and diverse workflow requirements. We would like to extend a "Thank you” to David as well as our panel members: There were also a number of sessions, delivered in parallel tracks, focusing on the components within the Spatial portfolio. With material covering what’s new as well as what’s ahead delivered by experts within the Spatial engineering staff, attendees left the 2-day conference with a lot of valuable information. If you weren’t able to attend, the content of some of the presentations has been recorded and made available on our website. Visit the Webinars & Tutorials page where you can find these videos. If you find it’s just not the same as seeing the presentations first-hand with the ability to talk directly with the presenter, start making plans now to join us for next year’s 3D Insiders’ Summit!
Posted: October 18th, 2012 |
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Contributed by Linda Lokay, VP Marketing and Business Development It is so exciting to talk with people when they have an experience that lets them finally understand what you do. Today was one of those days. My husband, a musician, had to go to the orthopedist to be fitted for orthotics. His doctor gave him special socks to wear and explained how he was going to record his movement as he walked and ran. He got to see images of his feet in motion and was shown how all of this would be sent through a program to analyze his gait and finally with a press of a button, his orthotics would be made, right there in the same office!
For those who are familiar with the technologies, the story is not so surprising. Scans producing point cloud data are sent into specialized analysis programs, files are saved and the results are sent to a 3D printer. To be able to explain how one can go from a set of what seemed to be random points on a screen to produce custom orthotics gave me the perfect opportunity to explain how different components (point clouds, modeling/analysis engines, data exchange, etc) are all brought together by a very creative individual, to be able to create custom solutions for every patient. After many years and too many technical ways of trying to explain what Spatial does, all it took was one very personal experience and he FINALLY got it! I would love to hear other stories about when or how your friends, family, or associates really grasped what you do. Do you have a real life 3D Experience?
Posted: February 23rd, 2012 |
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When my husband came home he was so excited to tell me about this amazing process and how this doctor, who built this system himself, must have something revolutionary. He asked me what seemed like a million questions about how someone could make a sock to gather information and then produce the final product with one click of a button. In fact, he said it reminded him of being able to print, but it was 3D.