Generating AR Content from CAD Data for Documentation

Augmented reality has the potential to completely reinvent product documentation and training by leveraging existing model-based design and manufacturing data for use on mobile and wearable devices. This talk gives an overview of the challenges enterprises face in authoring, deploying and maintaining AR content derived from CAD-based sources.

Important issues in this area include upstream feature preservation, downstream modeling reduction, role-based content authoring and content reusability, among others. Talk attendees will be introduced to topics such as automated mesh reduction and de-featuring, dynamic non-occluding labeling, downstream material selection and engineering change propagation.