What is the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform?
Dassault Systèmes describe 3DEXPERIENCE a Business Experience Platform which provides applications and services that enable digital transformation to a data-driven, model-based environment. What this means is that the 3DEXPERIENCE platform brings together people, processes, and data in a cloud-based environment to help make collaboration simple for all your teams.
Dashboards
Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE is a collaborative platform where community members can share ideas as well as access tools to build on these ideas. The dashboard is the landing page where your company’s members access this information and tools.
A dashboard is a collection of widgets, and widgets are links to platform apps, community content and web content. The dashboard a community member has access to can be one that is related to their roles, dashboards that were created specifically for them and dashboards that the community member created for themselves.
1. The Compass
The compass is a means of launching related apps.
- North – Social and collaborative (sharing) The North quadrant of the compass represents social and collaborative applications. These can be data stores, blogs, project management tools and dashboards that allow users to communicate effectively
- East – Information intelligence (metrics and data) In the East quadrant, we find Information Intelligence applications. Here users can create search-based applications and dashboards which can link to data stored on the platform, on the web or in 3rd party applications like SAP.
- South – Simulation (analysis) In the South quadrant lie manufacturing, simulation and virtualization applications which allow us to learn from and optimize processes using virtual twins before trying them out in the real world.
- West – 3D Modeling (CAD) These tools allow visualization of 3D environments which allow construction and modelling above and below ground.
2. Top Bar
Search: Lets you search across the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or within the current tab. Search results can be refined using 6WTags.
6WTags: Click the tag icon next to the search box to reveal the 6WTags. 6WTags lets you capture the semantics on any content.
Me: Lets you access some basics about your profile.
Notifications: Opens the 3DNotification Center on the right pane of your dashboard to display the notifications pushed by some Apps and services of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Add: Lets you create and organize your dashboards.
Share: Lets you share tabs or dashboards with other users or user groups.
Content: Opens 3DDrive in a pane on the right of your dashboard to securely mash up, store, access and share files online from any device and anywhere.
Communities: Opens 3DSwym in a pane on the right of your dashboard to access the power of communities within a dashboard.
Help :
- Get Started: Displays the coach mark, a conceptual design window that provides a basic overview of the 3DEXPERIENCE.
- 3DEXPERIENCE User Assistance: Online help and User Guide.
3. Tabs
Tabs are used to organize content.
4. Action Bar
Along the bottom is the action bar. The action bar is populated with the actions available for a selected app.
Apps come in two flavors:
Native apps and web-based apps. Native apps are installed on your devices, such as a computer, tablet or mobile phone. The installation for the native apps can be done directly from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
My Roles:
Selecting a role will display the apps related to that role. For example, the 3D Designer role will give you access to the below apps.
SOLIDWORKS xDesign dashboard:
Dashboards can be used for defined roles—for example, 3D Component Designer—or for specific apps, such as SOLIDWORKS xDesign.
Getting started on My First Dashboard:
On top of dashboards available for roles and apps, and the default My First Dashboard, custom dashboards can be created. To create a custom dashboard, click on the plus sign icon located on the top bar and select Dashboard.
Advantages:
With so many applications rolled into one platform, there are many benefits to using 3DEXPERIENCE:
- Allows internal and external users to share ideas
- Easy for all members of the organization to use
- Lets non-designers contribute to the design process
- Secure data sharing and storage
- Helps make data-driven decisions
