Visualisation & Technical Documentation
Your CAD files already contain the product. SOLIDWORKS Visualize turns them into photographic images, animations and VR for sales and marketing; SOLIDWORKS Composer turns them into exploded views, assembly instructions and service manuals; eDrawings lets anyone open and mark them up. Concile supplies all three and trains the non-CAD teams who use them.
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Marketing waits for the prototype to photograph it; the service team draws exploded views by hand; a supplier asks for a viewer to open a model. All three problems have the same answer: the CAD data already exists, it just needs a tool that non-engineers can use. Visualize renders SOLIDWORKS models with physically accurate light and materials, and updates when the design changes. Composer builds illustrations, animations and step-by-step instructions from the same assembly and keeps them current through engineering changes. eDrawings gives anyone a free, secure viewer with measurement and mark-up.
- GPU-accelerated ray tracing with AI denoising (Visualize)
- Live link: design changes flow into the render scene
- Animations, turntables, 360° panoramas and VR (Visualize Professional)
- Exploded views, auto-ballooning and manufacturing BOMs (Composer)
- Step-by-step assembly and service instructions with animation
- Outputs for print, web, PDF, video and interactive HTML
- Composer Player: free viewer for interactive content
- eDrawings: view, measure, section, mark up — free on four platforms
What changes when documentation comes from the model
Launch before the prototype
Catalogue images, configurator renders and launch videos are produced from CAD weeks before the first unit exists, and every colour and option variant is a click, not a reshoot.
Manuals that stay current
Composer content is linked to the assembly. When engineering changes a part, the exploded view, the balloons and the instruction step update instead of going stale.
Fewer support calls
Clear, animated assembly and service instructions reduce installation errors and field calls. Interactive 3D in the manual beats a 2D PDF every time.
Three products, three audiences
Visualize for marketing and sales, Composer for technical publications and service, eDrawings for everyone else. Visualize Standard is included with SOLIDWORKS Design Professional and Premium; Composer runs stand-alone and needs no CAD seat.
Visualize Standard
Photographic still images from SOLIDWORKS data.
- Physically based ray tracing, GPU and CPU
- AI denoiser for fast previews
- Live CAD update from SOLIDWORKS
- Textures, decals, Pantone colours, depth of field
Visualize Professional
Standard plus motion, VR and batch output.
- Animation of parts, cameras, appearances, environments
- Imports SOLIDWORKS Motion studies; turntables, sun studies
- 360° panoramas and interactive VR output
- Render all configurations in one click; render queue
- Visualize Boost network rendering
SOLIDWORKS Composer
Illustrations and instructions from any CAD.
- Exploded and detail views, auto-balloons, BOM tables
- Storyboard animations and step-by-step procedures
- Reads SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Inventor, STEP, IGES
- Outputs: PNG/SVG/EPS, AVI, 3D PDF, HTML, SMG
- Sync, Check and Player Pro add-ons; free Player
eDrawings
Open, measure and mark up CAD without CAD.
- Free viewer on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
- Section, measure, explode; STL export
- Professional: mark-ups saved into the SOLIDWORKS file
- Professional: web HTML export, VR and mobile AR
We train the marketing and service teams, not just engineering
These tools succeed when the people who need the output can produce it themselves. Our rollout is aimed at them.
- Studio set-up: appearance library, environments, camera presets matching your brand
- One-day Visualize course for marketing and sales engineers
- Composer templates for your manual format, ballooning and BOM style
- Two-day Composer course for technical writers and service engineers
- Composer Sync configuration so published content updates on ECOs
- Render-farm or Visualize Boost set-up for high-volume output
Questions we get asked most
Is Visualize included with SOLIDWORKS?
Visualize Standard comes with SOLIDWORKS Design Professional and Premium on subscription. Professional, which adds animation, VR, configurations and network rendering, is a separate licence.
Does the marketing team need a SOLIDWORKS licence?
No. Visualize and Composer are stand-alone applications. A SOLIDWORKS user exports or links the model; marketing and documentation work in their own tool.
Can Composer read files from other CAD systems?
Yes — Creo, Inventor, STEP, IGES and others, as well as SOLIDWORKS. That makes it useful even in mixed-CAD companies and for supplier data.
How do we keep manuals current when the design changes?
Composer content stays linked to the source assembly; Composer Sync re-publishes automatically when a new revision is released from PDM. Views, balloons and animations update rather than being redrawn.
What hardware does Visualize need?
Any modern workstation works; an NVIDIA GPU with 8 GB or more makes interactive rendering fast and enables the AI denoiser. We’ll check your machines before purchase.
Is eDrawings secure for sending to suppliers?
Yes. eDrawings files are view-only, cannot be converted back to CAD, and measurement can be disabled by the author. Professional lets suppliers mark up and send comments back into the SOLIDWORKS file.
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Licences are supplied through MSD Facilitators and Ekspe Software Services LLP, our Authorised Dassault Systèmes Partner companies; implementation, automation and support come from Concile engineers in India and the UAE.
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