whats new in visual collaboration 2016
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Aras Visual Collaboration Easily see your product content,
including:
▫ Office Documents
▫ Drawings, Schematics
▫ 3D Models
▫ Images, Photos
Create markup which is linked with text comments into a discussion thread visible to other users
Pure HTML5, no plugins
No cost to Aras subscribers
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Overview
Enhancements have been made to Visual Collaboration in every service pack since its introduction in 11.0, including:
▫ Performance
▫ Viewer windowing and toolbars
▫ PDF viewer technology
▫ Viewer functions
And lots more is planned on the roadmap
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Windowing and Toolbars
11 SP4
▫ Viewer toolbars use click-on, click-off
▫ Toolbar and palette updates
11 SP5
▫ Full window used for viewer
▫ Sidebar update
11 SP6
▫ New Standard viewer toolbars
▫ New Viewer menu
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Windowing Improvements in 11 SP5
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Each Sidebar icon represents a unique type of content that can be displayed in the window
All content types now take entire window extents
Show Discussion Panel
11 SP4 and before
Toolbar Improvements in 11 SP6
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Basic (floating) toolbar now contains only functions for casual users
Standard toolbars contain ALL functions
Can be configured by identity and classification using Command Bar definition
PDF Viewer Technology
Browser 11.0 - 11 SP3 11 SP4, 11 SP5 11 SP6 and up
IE (9, 10, 11) PDF.js WebViewer WebViewer
Firefox PDF.js WebViewer PDFNet.js
Chrome PDFNet.js
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The initial PDF viewer was the Mozilla open-source PDF.js
Aras has now partnered with PDFTron for state-of-the-art PDF viewing
PDFTron has two PDF viewer technologies:▫ WebViewer, which renders on the server and streams to the browser
▫ PDFNet.js, a JavaScript-based viewer which renders directly in the browser
Both technologies are used, depending on release and browser
New General Functions
▫ Pan mode – pressing the mouse button allows panning of the image within the viewer
▫ Select Text mode – allows selecting text within the PDF file, using the mouse
▫ Currently selected mode stays active until changed
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Pan mode
Select Text
modeZoom Window – allows drawing a box to quickly zoom in to a location
Works in both the PDF and Image viewers
New Advanced Functions
Three new advanced PDF functions are available in the advanced portion of the toolbar
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Layer Display Compare Files
Measure Distance
Layer Display The Layer Display button is active if the file contains layer information
Clicking the button brings up the Layers dialog. This lists all layers in the file and by default displays the layers that were active when the file was saved
You can select layers to turn on or off, and reset to the original layer state
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Measure Distance Allows you to measure between two points
Distance is accurate to the nearest pixel location
▫ Snapping to geometry is planned for a future release
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• Pick Measure Distance command• Measurement dialog is opened
• Click to define point A • Click to define point B• Measurement between point A and B
is displayed
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Units and Scale
You can select the desired units system for the measurement
You can also set the scale, to match the scaling used in the document (for example on engineering drawings)
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Units and Scale
Measurement Units The administrator can control the list of units and the default that
appear in the Measurement dialog, using the new “Measurement Unit” ItemType found in the Admin TOC
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Record Measurement If the user clicks on “Record Measurement”, the measurement numbers and
picture are automatically recorded as a message in the Discussion Panel
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With thumbnail With snapshot expanded
Compare Files
The Compare Files command performs a raster-based comparison of two files, and displays the difference between them
It is similar to comparing two paper documents on a lightbox
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Using Compare Files
Start the comparison using the Compare Files command
The Compare Files dialog lets you select from two options
▫ Compare to a file from a different version of the current item
▫ Compare to a file from a different item
Note:
▫ Comparison is limited to one page of each file
▫ Comparison is based on current layer display for each file
▫ Scaling of both files must be the same
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Option 1: Comparing to another version
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Document DOC101, Version 3
Comparison View
Start Comparison
Pick Version 1
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Document DOC202
At this point nothing happens until you pick the 2nd file
This is in the style of “Beyond Compare”, where you pick the 2 files separately (no search dialogs needed)
Option 2: Comparing to another fileDocument DOC101
Comparison View
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Comparison Viewer When the comparison is started, it automatically creates a new
Comparison Viewer entry in the sidebar
This is active until another sidebar icon is picked, or the window is closed
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ComparisonViewer
Compare Dialog - Alignment The Compare dialog has functions to align the images and display the file comparison
If Option 2 was used to start the comparison, the files will most likely need to be aligned
To align the images, use the “Drag to align” button and then drag one image on top of the other
To do fine alignment, use the Arrow keys on the keyboard to align by 1 pixel at a time, or Control + Arrow key to align by 10 pixels at a time
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Reset alignment Drag to alignRefresh display
Drag
Compare Dialog – Display Options
The Compare dialog also has functions to display the comparison is various ways
Display only file 1 or only file 2 (toggle between them for a quick visual comparison)
Display combination of file 1 and file 2 (overlay mode)
Display difference view (graphical highlight mode)
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Display both files
Display difference view
Display file 2
Display file 1
Compare Dialog – Difference View
Difference View displays differences between the files in a separate color, for easy identification of changes
When Difference View is active, you get a tolerance slider and a color selector
Moving the tolerance slider controls the degree of the raster-based comparison. It can help in detecting differences between the file
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Set difference color
Tolerance slider
Differences
Markup on Comparison
When the Comparison Viewer is active, you can create and save markup messages on top of the comparison
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Aras Flow
“My work in Aras right now”
Workflow review and signoff
Visual Collaboration with view/markup/discussion
Add sketch, photo, video, and audio
Free Windows Store app
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Aras Flow
“My work in Aras right now”
Workflow review and signoff
Visual Collaboration with view/markup/discussion
Add sketch, photo, video, and audio
Free Windows Store app
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Available now on iPad, coming soon on Android!
Major Visual Collaboration Release coming soonRelease 11 SP7 – Q2 2016
Notification▫ In web client and email
Message visibility control
Advanced Image Viewer▫ TIFF, BMP file format support▫ Measure and Compare for Images
Sketch function
Print / Download File
Print / Download / Copy Snapshot
General UI Cleanup
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Notification
Sketch
Message Visibility
And looking ahead
Enhancements to 3D conversion and viewing
Collaboration review sessions
Linking informal collaboration to formal workflow
Any other ideas?
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