The Pipeline from CAD to Virtual Reality in VISIONAIR Project

The VISIONAIR project aims at federating and providing a unique access to advanced visualization resources available at research centers and universities from Israel and other 11 countries in Europe. The physical visualisation facilities are supported by the Virtual Visualisation Service Infrastructure providing repositories of shape models and archives of tools for their creation and processing. Here we present the newly developed service for the documentation of workflows aimed at supporting the preparation of Virtual Reality Environments from CAD /PLM data. 1 The VISIONAIR project and the VVS Visualization tools and techniques provide important support to analyze and display large volumes of multidimensional data, often time varying, in such a way as to allow the user to extract significant features and results quickly and easily. Newly available technologies allow for greater realism in the visualization perception. Unfortunately, the use of such tools is still limited because they are still expensive, and their costs are not always justified with respect to the actual usage for most of researchers. To overcome these limitations and to enhance research and innovation capacities, the European