SAP AG, multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations, has released 8.0 version of Visual Enterprise Author. This software for create 3D animations and render rich visual content into common desktop documents, file formats, and business applications for secure downstream use.

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author is a desktop application used to create 3D animations and render rich visual content into common desktop documents, file formats, and business applications for secure downstream use. You can use SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author to manage 2D, 3D, animation, video, and audio assets, with support for opening and importing all supported CAD file formats. A number of different tools allow you to explore, view, transform, optimize, animate, and publish in a number of formats. While searching for files, you can carry out other activities and, you are alerted when files are found for file preview and file download selection. You can also keep track of your viewed images and select the most recent, and you can create and present slide shows, either in windows or as full-screen presentations. The application encompasses industry leading, consistent file conversion, and an SDK is available to create custom graphics, management, and manipulation tools.

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author uses metadata to display various graphics information. For example, you can view the number of vertices, sub-objects and the texture bitmaps in a drawing. You can pan, rotate, and zoom to explore 3D models, add comments, cameras, and lights, and you can view object details, sub-objects, and textures.