My favorite features in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform have to do with the ease of creating new revisions. Let’s take a look at how to work with revisions.

I’m going to start off by creating a new component and creating a simple sketch. I will extrude it and create a hole inside the box. Now I can create a revision by navigating to the Lifecycle tab and here I will see an option to click and create a new revision.

Creating new revisions

Once I click new revision, I will save the component. If I want to open this new revision and add a larger width, I can do that now while I have the revision open. On the right side of the screen, you can see the revisions panel, which shows all the revisions that I am creating. I like working in the graph view because it gives me an image of what I’m working on. If I double-click on revision A, it’s going to open my revision. Clicking on revision B will opens my revision B. It’s very easy to see the revision in the image, so you don’t have to open every single one.

Switching between Apps

The next thing I want to talk about is the ability to switch between apps on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. I am able to open all these different apps with the click of a button with the shortcut. Now I’m going to go inside of xShape and I’m going to add a handle to my box design. The design was created in xDesign but now I need to navigate to xShape. It is very easy to quickly click the shortcut and move to xShape. Once I’m happy with my design, I can go ahead and select it, finish it, and now click the shortcuts and go back into xDesign.

Replacing revisions inside an assembly

The next feature that I want to talk about is the ease of replacing revisions inside of the assembly. With a new assembly open, I can insert the component that I created previously. I will right-click on a component and click on the Replacement Component icon. I will select a new revision and it appears in the windowpane with a graphical icon. I will then choose the desired revision and select Okay. You will see that it has opened my revision and I was able to go from revision C to revision A just by clicking a button.

I have three different revisions and I can easily right-click, replace the component, and go back and select previously created revisions.