"Renderjam offers a new lightweight and very easy to use visualization product that enables anyone in the organization to access digital 3D assets. Being distributed as a service it has a very low impact on IT overhead and it is easy to deploy. Renderjam is the ideal tool for architects and industrial designers that need to share their project data." said Dr. Cristiano Sacchi, CEO of Novedge.

Novedge will offer the Renderjam.com service through its successful Novedge.com portal. "Our partnership with Novedge gives us invaluable exposure and access to market" stated Chris Boothroyd, CEO of Aftercad "and we look forward to marketing this product with Dr. Sacchi and his team."

About Aftercad

Aftercad is a leading provider of innovative products and solutions that enable the viewing and publishing of complex 3D data sets over the web. Aftercad allows organizations to publish, share, annotate and manage 3D CAD data for Digital Prototyping, Manufacturing, Building Information Modeling and Infrastructure Planning.

About Novedge

Founded in 2003, Novedge LLC (www.novedge.com), a privately held company based in San Francisco, CA, is the leading online store of design, graphics, and manufacturing software and accessories. Thanks to its extensive catalog and unique proprietary interactive technology, Novedge offers a comprehensive and unparalleled approach to researching and purchasing CAD and graphics software online.

SketchUp users can signup on Renderjam.com for free, create a workspace and start collaborating on 3D assets within minutes. The Renderjam service tracks all workspace activity and can issue a daily audit trail report of all changes made by participants. Most importantly, all project stakeholders including those who don't have SketchUp can easily see, manipulate and annotate the 3D project assets in the web browser and directly contribute to the project instead of having to wait for emails, look at still images or couriered paper rolls.

"This is a brand new development and once again, Aftercad is the first. This technology will open up new verticals of communication where individuals have easy access and interactivity with real time 3D from wherever they are. Coupled with the market momentum of Google SketchUp, this is an exciting development in the democratization of 3D. If this changes your 3D perspective on things and you have some ideas you'd like to chase, check out our video: http://www.renderjam.com/rjvideo.aspx which demonstrates this new approach. Give us a try and we'll bring your 3D assets to life" concludes Boothroyd.

The Renderjam 3D Workspace is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that allows businesses to upload, view, mark-up, manage and publish large and complex 3D CAD files onto the web, without the need for proprietary viewers, providing easy and instant access to 3D project information by non-CAD professionals.

"With the development of the 3D Workspace Beta we have achieved our goal of bringing a complete online file system to our customers so that they can collaborate on all project documents including stunning 3D visuals. The goal of the 3D Workspace is to quickly centralize, visualize and annotate what it is you are trying to build so that your clients can come to decisions faster and easier. Each 3D Workspace has its own secure online file system, event notification and sharing tools so that you can easily invite clients or partners to collaborate with you on a 3D project."

Setting up a 3D Workspace is all done through the browser in minutes. Workspace share invites and login instructions are sent out via e-mail to all participants. Participants can easily upload relevant documentation, plans and 3D models into the workspace and convert the 3D files into stunning visuals that don't require any special software or training to view and make notes on. Everything that happens in the workspace is monitored and members are notified of the workspace events of interest to them like viewing, uploading, downloading and new notes.

These features are designed to save time and money right away and are a great convenience to users. By quickly aggregating the project details and files into the workspace users can retain sales momentum and keep their client engaged in a simple browser based environment that can be accessed 24x7 from anywhere. The 3D Workspace is focused on helping clients see all the details, which helps them make decisions.

To try it out for free for 30 days head to www.renderjam.com and sign up.

The Aftercad 3D Live technology is the first major step towards a viable cloud computing model for 3D on the web. Previously 3D models had to be created by a design application, moved from designer to client and viewed with a proprietary viewer. This traditional workflow has prevented 3D publishing and collaboration from participating in the new web 2.0 environment. In much the same way that Google has liberated data from the old expensive desktop apps with Search, Youtube(tm) and Google Apps, this is the same democratization for 3D data that needed to happen. Now users can view and collaborate on a 3D asset with nothing more than a browser.

"3D assets have become much bigger, more intricate and more sensitive. Nobody wants to send these things flying around out there any more. Nobody wants to wait for it to load and nobody wants yet another viewer plugin to install. What if I wanted to make a note or a change, would I have to send it around to everyone again? That would add unnecessary time and cost" said Boothroyd. By centralizing the 3D model serverside out in the cloud, 3D publishers gain the immediate benefits of prerendering, asset delivery optimization, speed, access control and most importantly the ability to actually collaborate on the 3D asset with annotations, changes and updates. "Aftercad 3D Live uses our special technologies to achieve this in real time - in the comfort of your own browser."

The applications of Aftercad 3D Live across the entire 3D user spectrum is mind boggling: games, architecture, engineering, building information modeling (BIM), medicine, infrastructure, government, situational analysis, local search, augmented reality - the list is massive. The 3D Live technology enables the 3D asset to change in response to users and automated updates and disseminate those changes to all participants. This new method of 3D collaboration represents fulfillment of the 'One Story for Everyone' dream in digital prototyping and BIM where all stakeholders have one reference of a 3D asset and not endless revisions and versions which are hard to keep track of and introduce error.

"This is a brand new development and Aftercad is the first. This technology will open up new verticals of communication where individuals have easy access and interactivity with real time 3D from wherever they are. Coupled with the momentum of efforts like Collada and Google O3D, this is an exciting development in the democratization of 3D. If this changes your 3D perspective on things and you have some ideas you'd like to chase, check out Renderjam.com which leverages this new approach. Give us a shot and we'll bring your 3D assets to life" concludes Boothroyd.

The Aftercad 3D Workspace is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that allows businesses to upload, view, mark-up, manage and publish large and complex 3D CAD files onto the web, without the need for proprietary viewers, providing easy and instant access to 3D project information by non-CAD professionals.

Setting up a 3D Workspace is all done through the browser in minutes. Workspace share invites and login instructions are sent out via e-mail to all participants. Participants can easily upload relevant documentation, plans and 3D models into the workspace and convert the 3D files into stunning visuals that don't require any special software or training to view and make notes on. Everything that happens in the workspace is monitored and members are notified of the workspace events of interest to them like viewing, uploading, downloading and new notes.

These features are designed to save time and money right away and are a great convenience to users. By quickly aggregating the project details and files into the workspace users can retain sales momentum and keep their client engaged in a simple browser based environment that can be accessed 24x7 from anywhere. The 3D Workspace is focused on helping clients see all the details, which helps them make decisions.

"It means a lot to us to have this placement and if we are lucky, the next few disruptive technologies that we plan to roll out shortly will receive similar review"

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