Overview

3DSpace is a standards-based, open and scalable system able to support the largest, most complex, product lifecycle management deployments. It provides the flexibility to easily configure business processes, user interfaces, and infrastructure options to ensure that they meet your organization’s needs. The system enables you to continually drive business process improvements to operate more efficiently using pre-built metrics reports, while virtual workplace capabilities enable ad-hoc collaboration for cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams to securely share product content. All product development content can be routed for review and managed in repeatable workflow business process.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides the backbone for product lifecycle management activities within a workgroup, enterprise, or extended enterprise, depending on the organization’s needs. It is comprised of the following core software components:

• Studio Modeling Platform (optional)
• 3DSpace Server
• Collaboration and Approvals.

Detailed instructions for installing 3DSpace are provided in the 3DSpace Installation Guide.

The Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform is an add-on which is installed on top of an 3DEXPERIENCE platform core. The Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform operates solely on 3DSpace to provide a common modeling capability for all ENOVIA apps found within the native app brands.

3DEXPERIENCE platform and Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform, inside the PLM Enterprise Foundation, provide connectivity between the IP Modeling and PLM Collaborative Business Process applications allowing these engineering and business process tools to efficiently communicate.

Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform leverages the fundamentals of the PLM Core model:

• PLM Reference
• PLM Representation
• PLM Instance
• PLM Connection
• PLM Port

to associate PLM objects while delivering high performance and scalability.

Examples of user requests modeled by Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform include:

• create part
• lock/unlock instance
• save product structure
• version part
• expand product structure
• manage lifecycle/maturity.

The advanced modeling techniques used by Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform preserve all of the relational links between PLM objects throughout the duration of each object's lifecycle to provide an unbreakable ENOVIA Global Design Management data model, regardless of the amount of data or number of users.

Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform provides a default customization sample (data structures, policies, etc.).

The sample customization is intended to be used as a starter and to understand how the PLM core model works. The sample customization is in no way intended to be deployed for production purposes, and should rather be used as a starting point/sample for building a new Data Model Customization (DMC) referred to as a customer-specific environment (CSE).

In parallel, Multi-Discipline Collaboration Platform provides the baseline behavior, a ready-to-use solution providing fast and easy deployment.