November 2023
3D 💬
I’m on my way to LA (then San Diego, Atlanta [for CamX – on a panel ], Washington [for a talk on AI at ICAM], Baltimore, Philly and NY). Then it’s one day’s rest before heading to Formnext. 😮💨
I can’t complain though, travel has slowed down so much since COVID – which means we’ve been able to focus much more on bizness!! Maybe that explains why the team’s been getting so much done. I’m particularly pleased about the updates this month!
Threads
There’s a particularly special partner announcement for our new engineering collaboration tool! We’ve integrated with Encube to provide users with 3D annotation tools and more. If you’ve not heard of them, that’s because they’ve been very stealthy. It’s a Swedish company with some serious geometry and manufacturing talent, who are trying not only to make online 3D collaboration easier, but are also integrating a high-end manufacturability and design prep tool. They’re focused on CNC for the latter part at the moment, so there’s lots of room to grow together.
For now, we focused on the simplest workflow to allow users to load a 3D CAD file into Threads and jump right into a jam 3D discussion with all of your collaborators in Encube. Comment directly on the CAD and see those comments streamed right back to your related Thread.
We’re super proud to be the first to integrate with them. It allows users to take the collaborative process in the early R&D process to the next level and keep all of decisions and outcomes in Threads.
Flows
There are also some seriously cool new features in our production management tool, Flows. Flows is interesting because it’s more mature and thus gets quite a lot of incremental, ease of life feedback from clients. This is my favorite kind, as it helps us meaningfully improve the platform from real life scenarios – a continuous stress test of the system. This time, we rolled out focused card views for our pieces and enhancements to how we display Work Instructions. It’s never been easier to find who reported what data during the manufacturing process.
Flight boarding ✈️. Hope to see you at one of the many shows or at least in one of the cities I’ll be in in the next few weeks!! Ping me if you’re around!