Cortona3D Viewer vs iXVL Player

Cortona3D Viewer is your tool for interactive 3D and 2D product catalogs, work instructions, maintenance guides, and manuals created using Cortona3D RapidAuthor. With this tool, you can immerse yourself in 3D procedures and VRML scenes through augmented reality on your iPhone. Many equipment manufacturers are now enhancing their technical documentation. The Cortona3D Viewer supports AR, 3D interaction, full-text search, and interactive 2D elements, making it compatible with both legacy 2D and interactive 3D content derived from CAD. Interactive 3D streamlines complex maintenance and assembly communication, aids part identification, and facilitates mechanical skill training. It can also serve as a sales tool for product feature demos. Cortona3D Viewer on iOS complements RapidAuthor tools. RapidAuthor generates comprehensive technical documents with text, 2D, and 3D graphics from CAD and bill of materials data. Even if your company doesn't use Cortona3D RapidAuthor, you can still install Cortona3D Viewer to access sample content featuring 3D, legacy 2D graphics, and AR elements. Features: — AR support for procedures and VRML scenes — Multi-touch gestures for navigation — Exploded views and full bill of materials hierarchy — Part-specific additional information on touch — Various selection modes for parts — Part search, hide/show — Order parts using the shopping cart — Detailed Parts List with Part Number, Nomenclature, etc. — Links from IPC and procedures to other documents — Comprehensive viewing of 2D images in SGM and SVG formats — Inspect sheet transition animations in parts catalogs — Playback or scrub through animated install/remove sequences — Step-by-step instructions as text overlay — Dynamic cross-section and distance measuring — Navigation cube — Universal app for iPhone and iPad — Content upload and sharing via iCloud — Examples of ESA astronaut training content.

iXVL Player is a 3D model viewer for the iPad / iPhone to show XVL files and contents output from iXVL Publisher. It enables viewing and interrogation of 3D models using rotate, pan and zoom, assembly tree display, part properties display, show / hide assemblies or parts, viewing of previously defined snapshots and walkthroughs. You can show both the 3D model and detailed technical information, making it very useful for manufacturing industries. Features * View XVL files created using iXVL Publisher. XVL files are typically less than 1% of the original CAD file size. (Only XVL files created with iXVL Publisher are supported.) * Show work instruction contents and parts list contents published from iXVL Publisher on iPad. * Easy, intuitive multi-touch operation to rotate, pan and zoom in/out  (Drag to rotate, Two-finger drag to pan, pinch to zoom in/out and One-finger long tap to set rotate center). * Fit the screen to portrait and landscape according to the iPad / iPhone position. * Apply snapshots created by Lattice3D Studio. * Show assembly tree. * Select assembly / parts. * Show / Hide the selected assembly / parts. * Show Properties of selected assembly / parts. * Application includes icons to fit to screen and selected assembly / parts, restore original viewpoint and select shaded or shaded with wire display mode. * Switch the display accuracy using 3 different levels. * For assemblies, parts or annotations that have a link to a web page, tap the link to show the web page with Safari. * Easily copy files to your iPad using the iTunes file transfer function. * Download XVL files and save their URLs from any web server. * List XVL files on your iPad / iPhone. * Delete XVL files by swiping the file name. * Six XVL sample files are included. * Support for custom URL scheme and document type. * Read encrypted XVL files with XVL Signer. * Play process / disassembly / event animation. * Available on iPad (5th Generation or later) / iPad mini 4 or later / iPad Air 2 or later / iPad Pro (1st Generation or later) / iPhone 6s or later / iPod Touch (7th Generation). For further information: http://www.lattice3d.com/products/ixvl/player.html