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Rack Diagram 3D with support for Rack Server Virtualization
Visi3D provides an exciting way to present Visio drawings in a first person interactive 3D game like environment. Users walk or fly around a scaled model of the 2D drawings and experience the created spaces as they never could from the original drawings. The program is easy to use and will be available with different 3D worlds to recreate fixed and movable space; examples include data centers, offices, stores, concert halls, auditoriums, trade shows and exhibitions.
Visi3D’s Add-In for 3D network visualization links top-down Visio Rack shapes with Rack Diagram definition drawings to gather the required information for the 3D environment. Additionally, data graphics generated in 2D can be brought into 3D to provide enhanced information visualization. The solution involves three components that can be used together or independently to represent real-space or virtualized 3D equipment:
- Rack Diagram 3D creates 3D worlds from individual racks and cabinets that have been configured with equipment shapes from Visio’s Rack and Freestanding Equipment stencils. Each new drawing page of the rack view is shown as a new row in 3D.
- Drawings created from the Rack Server Virtualization Add-In for Visio 2007 are also supported and provide a way to model real-space and virtualized servers in their racks and cabinets. When servers and network equipment are properly positioned within their racks, a true-to-life representation of the data center space is possible in 3D.
- Data centers will be able to be located within buildings and offices with the release of the Visi3D application for the Visio Office and Space Planning shapes and the Facility Management program scheduled for the second quarter of 2009. Room layouts can be either hand-drawn or constructed using Microsoft's Space Shapes. Rooms are customizable with wall and floor textures, lighting, ceiling height and textures.
As with all video game quality 3D applications of this type, a DirectX 9 capable graphics card or a relatively new onboard graphics chip is required to use the program, in addition to Windows XP or Vista and Microsoft Visio.
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