3D web sites - the next step in e-business
Whether you've adopted e-business techniques already or were waiting until 3D and the web were ready for each other, now you can now give your customers a true, cost effective 3D experience. Because: (1) The use of 3D CAD/CAM design data is widespread, enabling its reuse for web sites; (2) Lattice3D's XVL® technology has achieved unprecedented 3D compression while maintaining high visual fidelity/resolution and accuracy; and (3) Lattice's applications enable non-engineers to automatically create interactive 3D-aware web pages and use Lattice's free viewer.

Why 3D web sites are important
It's intuitively obvious that 3D data enables better and faster comprehension, better retention, communication and collaboration. If "a picture is worth a 1,000 words", a 3D model that you can rotate, zoom, and animate, is worth a 1,000 2D pictures in many situations: in the field trying to support or repair a complex product ... showing someone what is wrong with a complex device ... describing the benefits of your latest invention ... showing potential clients what a great product design you've put together ... providing mission-critical guidance for installing or building a device ... describing which part you need to order so your tool or product will operate properly ... the list goes on!

Automated, interactive, 3D web sites for parts catalogs, service, support, and e-commerce.

• More effective Web Sites - use interactive 3D graphics to increase your web site's effectiveness.
• Better self service and reduced 800 calls - reduce part selection errors up to 30% by letting users see the part in 3D from any angle to be sure to get the order right!
• Automated publishing - go from a CAD model to an updated web page in a fully automated process.
• Productivity improvements - automated interactive web page production, updating.
• Competitive differentiation - use 3D to differentiate your site from your competitors.
• Reduced costs - reduce publication costs.
• Reduced ranslation/localization costs - 3D web page graphics can be universally understood, minimizing the need for text translation.
• Shorten time to market with better processes 3D models enables and simplifies pre-manufacturing digital process design and animation simulation.
• Free 3D viewing for all Lattice Technology provides free viewers for all - there are no hidden costs for viewing your 3D content!

• Unmatched 3D compression . With high fidelity graphics zoomed in.
• Automatic publishing via templates. Automatically generate complete, interactive 3D web pages.
• Ease of use. Interactive via mouse or touch screen with full associativity.
• Controlled accuracy. Be highly accurate to the original or deliberately lower accuracy to protect IP.
• Auto-updating. Web pages can be automatically recreated when the CAD part file is updated.
• Unlimited model size. Convert very large CAD assemblies into light-weight, interactive 3D models.
• Easily integrated. Embed 3D viewing and integrate applications via sophisticated APIs and SDK.
• Superior 3D animations. XVL allows animated views to be generated from any camera angle.
• PDM integration. Optionally embed PDM data into the parts list, giving users a direct link from the parts table.
• 3D animations. Fully automatic generation of exploded part animations.
• 3D model views and layer display.Create 3D views so users can display, manipulate, and interact with models.
• 2D Illustrations. Automatically creates 2D illustrations of parts and assemblies ... supports several 2D image formats.
• Batch processing. Standard and userdefined templates can be used within automated batch processing.
• Security. Control access to your 3D data, with NIST (AES) encryption and 3 levels of password protection for view, measure and edit access.