# Collaborative Innovation

Capture shared knowledge across stakeholder communities, giving your teams a rich source of enterprise knowledge they can reuse to make faster, smarter decisions.

Collaboration Challenges

Organizations are challenged by unstructured collaboration. They generate more conversations, decisions and ideas than they can capture or reuse. Context gets buried in folders, on desktops, in brains. Message threads, meeting notes, best practices and lessons learned are often scattered. When projects end, strategy and insight disappear or are hard to find and valuable time is spent searching for knowledge that already exists.

Structured Knowledge

**3D**EXPERIENCE turns day-to-day collaboration into a structured, searchable asset. Intelligence-powered tools capture conversations, ideas and decisions and link them directly to the work they shape. Teams build on each other's thinking and move ideas forward with contextual history as a foundation. Now, personal drafts and small-group discussions are feeding communities, idea funnels and shared wikis. Work structures itself naturally on one platform. Teams get a unified foundation they can find, trust and reuse.

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Unlock 3D Collaboration for All: Interactive 3D Models in 3DSwym

Ever wasted time explaining a 3D feature that a 2D screenshot just couldn’t capture? **3DSwym solves this.** Here, AURA explains how teams can embed 3D models directly into 3DSwym, explore them intuitively, and collaborate with full visual context through linked comments and shared views.

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Your CATIA Model + 3DSwym = A Context-rich, Virtual Twin Connected Team Notebook

Have you ever spent time clarifying which part of your CATIA model your team’s notes refer to? Use 3DSwym to **capture and share team notes** linked to your CATIA assembly, so they are specific and provide easy access to the relevant portion of the latest design.

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Turn Team Ideas into Action with 3DSwym Idea Funnels

Struggling to organize, validate, and act on team ideas scattered across emails or chats? **3DSwym idea funnels** transform raw creativity into structured workflows **for anything** from product innovation to event planning.

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Key Features & Benefits

Contextual Collaboration

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Enterprise Memory

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AI Powered

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Actionable Insights

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Confidence in Product & Process

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Meet AURA

AURA is an **AI-powered virtual assistant** built into the 3DSwym app, the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform's collaborative innovation environment.

Designed to help your teams turn conversations, ideas and decisions into shared knowledge they can act on, she surfaces the right insights at the right moment, directly within the spaces where your people already collaborate. By connecting expertise and context to the work that shapes it, AURA makes enterprise knowledge easier to find, trust and reuse across functions and locations. That means faster innovation, better decisions and a unified environment that grows with every project.

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## Start Your Journey (Collaborative Innovation)

Collaborative Innovation FAQs

How does 3DSwymer move from informal ideation to formal project execution?

3DSwymer supports the full arc of a project in one place. Teams start open and informal, sharing notes in a personal space, brainstorming in a dedicated conversation and sketching ideas on 3D whiteboards. As work matures, it structures itself: a secret community brings in stakeholders, an idea funnel filters the best concepts and wikis hold long-term reference content. When it's time to deliver, keep your shared notes up to date and in context by embedding live virtual twin data.

What is the Virtual Twin of Knowledge and why does it matter?

The Virtual Twin of Knowledge is the living memory of your organization. Every note, conversation and decision in 3DSwymer builds on the last, creating a secure, connected and actionable asset rather than scattered files. This matters because knowledge stays where it's useful: new engineers inherit context faster, past discussions stay tied to the geometry or process they relate to and your teams solve problems by building on what others already know. Instead of starting from scratch, your people build on everything the organization has learned.

How does AURA assist users within the 3DSwym app?

Aura is the AI built into the 3DSwym App, and it works alongside your teams to save time and simplify access to information. It quickly summarizes long notes, generates and translates ideas in your native language and drafts structured, ready-to-publish content like community welcome messages. Aura can also extract relevant tags from a post and answer direct questions about project status, late tasks or task ownership. The more your teams collaborate, the more context Aura has to give relevant, useful help.

How does 3DSwymer protect IP while enabling open collaboration?

3DSwymer lets you collaborate openly without risking intellectual property. All data stays within the **3**DEXPERIENCE platform, alongside your 3D, project and other Virtual Twin data, so sensitive content never scatters across email or outside tools. You control visibility at every stage. Keep communities *secret* so only members see them, or *private* so employees can request access, or open them to the whole organization when the time is right. Page locks and private draft modes add another layer of control, so the right people see the right content at the right moment.

Where is 3DSwymer available and how does it integrate with tools like CATIA and SOLIDWORKS?

3DSwymer is available everywhere you build and manage Virtual Twins. It works inside authoring applications including CATIA, SOLIDWORKS Desktop, **3D**EXPERIENCE and HomeByMe, so collaboration happens in the context of your actual work rather than in a separate tool. You can embed 3D models directly in posts, wikis and ideas, letting any collaborator rotate, zoom and explore geometry without opening the original CAD application. This deep integration means the value of 3DSwymer compounds: the more places it connects, the richer your shared knowledge becomes.

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