AutoVue Support for Product Manufacturing Information (PMI)
Beyond 3D viewing capabilities, AutoVue delivers extended support for Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), such as Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and Functional Tolerance Annotation (FTA).
Manufacturing organizations can view and interact with important product design information during the manufacturing process. Suppliers, shop floor and manufacturing personnel, as well as quality and method engineering teams can instantly access, view, and review important product specifications, and ensure that products are being manufactured in compliance with design engineering’s intent.
By unlocking Product Manufacturing Information t the people that need it most, AutoVue helps manufacturers:
- Improve collaboration throughout the supply chain
- Ensure suppliers and extended teams have accurate product specifications
- Leverage 3D product information throughout the product lifecycle
- Reduce time require to resolve design issues
- Avoid design and fabrication errors caused by the misinterpretation of 2D data or paper documents
- Reduce paper and document delivery costs
AutoVue provides support for the following PMI entities for Pro/Engineer, CATIA V5 and Unigraphics files:
| CATIA V5 | Pro/Engineer | Unigraphics |
| Datum | Datum | Datum |
| Datum Target | Datum Target | |
| Geometric Tolerance | Geometric Tolerance | Feature Control Frame |
| Dimensions | Reference / Driven Dimension | Dimensions |
| Coordinate Dimension | Locator | |
| Roughness | Surface Finish | Surface Finish |
| Text | Note | Note |
| Flag Note | ||
| Note Object Attribute (NOA) | Data Symbols | User-Defined Symbols |
| Axis System | Coordinate System | Coordinate System |
| Plane | Datum Plane | Datum Plane |
| Axis | Datum Axis | Datum Axis |
| Point | Datum Point | Datum Point |
| Weld | Weld | Weld |
| Hyperlinks | Hyperlinks | |
| Reference Geometries |
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| Views | ||
| Captures |
Printer View