Threedify of Canada has a 3D modeler running inside Office, Internet Explorer, or on its own using COM [common object model]. Jeffrey Nelson is vp of business development, and he explains how it works:
We can imbed our whole application and GUI inside Excel or a Word doc, or use it over the Web and users have full editing and Excel data interaction capability with the 3D model (as well as view/mark-up only if that's all that is needed) -- all under just a few megs.
We can run right out of the box for instance with applications like Expresso which is Excel service over the web. (Right Hemisphere with Corel Design is much larger and runs as a completely separate application.) What we do is pure ATL based and is lightweight and efficient so our footprint is very small... we compress 3D object files by over 95% with 40 file formats available..
...six ways to collaborate in 3D: MS Office, Internet Explorer, 3rd-party plugins, Outlook email, Windows Explorer (peer to peer), and soon server-side live collaboration.
We see ourselves as a Microsoft "3D Office" extending 3D collaboration to many more people who may only have Office but need to collaborate in 3D.
The 30-day trial download is available from www.threedify.com
This is not new technology; heck, even IntelliCAD could be embedded in word processing documents ten years ago. The difference here might be the small size (5MB) for a 3D modeler.
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