HomeByMe... imagine, design, and share 3D housing projects

As a CAD service provider, it's always exciting to learn of new products that can extend one's repertoire of 3D services.  Especially when the new products announced are part of the ever expanding 3D Experience platform of Dassault Systemes. Among the new DS product offerings announced during Monday's General Session at SolidWorks World 2014 in San Diego, California USA, HomeByMe merits attention and is now available to users in a beta release.

HomeByMe is an online 3D space planning service to imagine, design, and share housing projects. With HomeByMe, you can create an entire home in 3D and experiment with thousands of products and textures before sharing your project.

Powered by 3DVIA, it's easy to sketch a home. With a simple yet effective interface, external and internal walls can be placed and arranged, along with doors, windows, additional floors, and stairs. Essentially, everything you might need to transform a vision into a 3D reality.

As SolidWorks users know well, we are accustomed to the many facets of mechanical design projects. But to keep things fresh, it can be rewarding to take on the occasional 3D modeling project of a home, deck, or other entity, be it personal or for business. Yes, HomeByMe is certainly a convenient means to develop a 3D home design, furnish it, decorate it, and render it. All in the comfort of the 3D Experience platform!

TeamPlatform... real design collaboration

There was a time when exchanging files through email and ftp sites defined collaboration.  That no longer is the case. TeamPlatform has redefined the new norm for design collaboration with an impressively functional and secure web service! 

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Design firms and individuals providing CAD design services will certainly find TeamPlatform worth looking into.  Among the three web-based plans that are offered, the Personal membership is cost free thereby providing a great incentive for potential users to take that next step in genuine collaboration.  In doing so, VisPower Technology, Inc has commendably demonstrated they are sincere in encouraging interest and confidence in their service.  Two additional plans are tiered for Team and Enterprise use and both of these are reasonably priced.  All plans allow for unlimited free Guests.

A brief review of just some of the notable features of TeamPlatform include:

• A dashboard, interface, file sharing and management that reveals a refreshing and clean sensibility

• Superb viewers for both 2D and 3D, along with intuitive markup capability

• Version control with history, task and workspace management that speaks 'this is real collaboration'

• Many of the file management features are made with the Solidworks user in mind

• Mobile compatibility that ensures the benefits of TeamPlatform will extend well beyond the desk   

Sure, bouncing project files back and forth by email can be exciting, especially so when you're not sure which version you may be looking at!  But for any who want to collaborate in the truest sense of the word, TeamPlatform has just what real design collaborators are looking for!

In an upcoming post we will look at the potential of using TeamPlatform as a longterm CAD vault.