About the Compass

The Compass provides access to your roles, apps, and services. It allows 3DEXPERIENCE users to access their available roles and apps, and discover the entire Dassault Systèmes solutions portfolio.

The sections below are available:

  • Me: Reveals roles and apps already available to you. Start your apps from here. It provides the following subsections:
    • As a System of Operations lets you access your already-available roles, and apps.

      For more information see, About Roles, About Apps, and Defining Favorite Apps.

    • As a Business Model lets you access services that help you developing your business environment.
  • COMPANY: Reveals roles available within your company. Request new roles from here.
    Note: If this section is hidden, and you need to request a role contact your administrator.

    If you have access to several plattforms and want to check whether you can request a role in another platform, click Preferences > Platform Selection, and select either of the following:

    Note: Platform selection is only available when accessing your 3DEXPERIENCE platform using a browser. By default when working in a native-app environment, your apps are those linked to the current platform.

    • All Platforms. Lets you to select another platform from the app's context menu . You can set a different platforms for each of your apps.
    • Select Platform At App Launch. Forces the platform selection when you launch an app or drag a dashboard app to a dashboard.

    For more information, see Requesting a Role, and About Apps.

  • WORLD: Discover the entire Dassault Systèmes solutions portfolio and learn more about its values.
    • As a System of Operations lets you discover a complete description of the 3DEXPERIENCE portfolio, along with roles, and apps. Click a portfolio to discover its content.

      On the cloud only: You can buy some of the roles described in each portfolio. Click a portfolio, a role, and on the upper-right of the role description, click Buy, select for example, the 3DEXPERIENCE Collaborative Innovation portfolio then the Collaborative Business Innovator role and click .

      While browsing the portfolio, you can see the number of items that you have already added to your Cart at the bottom of the page. To access your cart content, click .

      Each role may be available on premises or as a public cloud solution. By default, both solutions are selected when browsing a role detail. Click or alternatively to filter the available apps/roles of each solution.

    • As a Business Model lets you access services that help you developing your business environment.




Some native apps use the Play  button to start their own experiences.

Whenever a compatible app is selected, and even if the Compass is closed, its color becomes light-blue as shown below.

Click it to start the experience provided by the app.