Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.71
July 22, 2019
…data from all common systems such as Catia, NX, SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, STEP or JT with manufacturing information (PMI) and processes them as exact B-Rep geometry. The B-Rep geometry core of the software makes it possible to test, repair and prepare the original surfaces and solids of the exact 3D CAD Engineering Standard models. In addition to the texture module, the 4D_Additive Software Suite features healing and clean-up capabilities, automated part alignment, intelligent nesting capabilities with multi-processor calculation, an analysis tool for optimal part design, part optimization and shell geometry and a partfinder as a search engine for 3D printing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.06
July 18, 2019
…part of many mainstream CAD and simulation software, including SolidWorks and Altair. With Autodesk Fusion, you can specify the preferred manufacturing method so the software can take it into consideration when it generates the topology. For more on this, read our online report on the VW Type 20 at Digital Engineering 247.com. The wheel of the new VW Type 20 concept van, designed with Autodesk Fusion's generative design. Image courtesy of Volkswagen Group. RoboCup brings out advanced autonomous technology Perhaps some of you are soccer fans, or football, as it’s known in other parts of the world, but do you…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.46
June 06, 2019
…has to be light. We have designed everything in SolidWorks, done a structural and FEA analysis, and we use the 3D printer to build it.” Kayacan says the lab primarily uses 3D printing for multi-rotor drones. “For fixed-wing drones, we have been disappointed, because you need a high degree of accuracy on the wing,” Kayacan says. “it’s difficult to do that with existing 3D printers, because you need some post-processing to get the wings smooth, and you can’t print the entire wing.” “For multi-rotor it makes sense, because you don’t need precision but we need to produce the prototypes fast,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.84
June 04, 2019
…open and closed contours in polyline format over to SolidWorks or other CAD/CAM applications. Other features in Artec Studio 14 include 3D modeling capabilities, such as Glare Removal, which uses advanced PBR (Physically Based Rendering) algorithms to produce uniform colored surfaces, as well as Bridges, a feature that lets users organically mend and repair holes and gaps in scans using existing scan geometry. “The new Artec Studio 14 supports Artec’s entire line of 3D scanners, allowing our users to digitize the very smallest objects, such engine valves or connectors, right up to cargo aircraft, with metrology grade precision,” says Artyom…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.19
June 01, 2019
…says Brian Hillner, the senior product portfolio manager for SolidWorks Visualization at Dassault Systèmes. The first is the existing use case of GPUs for speed of rendering and fidelity of modeling tasks (draw, edit, zoom, pan, rotate). SolidWorks and several other CAD or image processing software products have added support for NVIDIA’s new AI-based denoising technology, which reduces the “grainy” look in images. Dassault Systemès SolidWorks uses GPUs to process topology optimization. This image shows using an optimized shape as a reference overlay for use with an existing design. Image courtesy of Dassault Systèmes. “SolidWorks Visualize can create 10 times…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.54
April 01, 2019
…February 2018, when Dassault Systèmes, the parent company of SolidWorks, launched its ecommerce platform 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace, the company said, “Our ambition is nothing shy of transforming the industrial world similar to the way companies like Amazon transformed the retail sector.” Dassault Systèmes is certainly not the first to aspire to become an Amazon-like entity for manufacturing. Although the company has a long history in CAD, simulation and product lifecycle management (PLM), in the field of on-demand manufacturing, it must compete with younger but earlier players like Xometry, Fictiv and Protolabs. Some of these companies started out as portals catering to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.71
April 01, 2019
…you can reach Xometry through its website. But for SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor users, there’s an option to use Xometry’s CAD plug-in. Once downloaded and installed, the Xometry plug-in functions as a quote engine inside the CAD program that’s available for you to instantly submit the part for manufacturing analysis and get a cost estimate. “With the plug-in, we can give you the feedback you need early on, so you have a better understanding of the cost and production impact,” explains Bill Cronin, Xometry’s chief revenue officer. Another on-demand manufacturer service provider, Plethora, offers a plug-in for SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.88
April 01, 2019
…the 3D market. The first, a free add-in for SolidWorks, promises to provide a design environment optimized for 3D printing multi-material electronics (see video). The software aims to help engineers design complex prototypes—consisting of polymers and metals—that can be 3D printed on the company’s DragonFly Pro printer. The second, called Switch, offers a proprietary pre-processing application that enables operators to prepare printed circuit board designs for 3D printing on Nano Dimension’s printer. On another front, researchers at UTEP have begun to develop software that goes beyond enabling the design of circuits that conform to a surface and opens the door…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.77
March 27, 2019
…viable,” De Reyes says. Sabrewing currently uses Dassault Systemes SolidWorks internally and shares files with its partners via a cloud connection. “We’re writing some of our own software as well, and relying on Oklahoma University software, as well as software being developed by the University of California, Channel Islands,” De Reyes says. “We have a core team here of about 10 people, and another 36 engineers working on this through our partnerships.” Sabrewing has also leveraged the X-Plane flight simulator to test the aircraft. “People sometimes raise their eyebrows at that, because of it’s reputation as a game, but it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.26
March 01, 2019
…destroy the cap. A replica was reverse engineered using SOLIDWORKS and ARDEC printed the tool with Rize One, enabling easy and safe removal of the cap. If the tool is misplaced or left behind during a move, a new one can quickly and easily be printed on the fly in less than one day. Another tool that ARDEC prints with Rize One is a generator wrench that is easily lost during moves. Using 3D Scanners, they reverse engineered the wrench and print electrically neutral replacements on demand with Rize One. Rize One is also used for mission critical applications, including…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.75
February 11, 2019
…aerospace, life sciences, consumer goods, building and construction and retail.” Rize is demonstrating its breakthrough Augmented Deposition technology at SOLIDWORKS World 2019, February 10-13, 2019, in Booth 227. More Info Rize Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.71
January 17, 2019
…data of all current systems such as Catia, NX, Solidworks, Creo, STEP or JT is read by precise native interfaces and processed as exact B-Rep geometry including all contained product manufacturing information (PMI). This enables ability to analyze, repair and prepare the 3D models with highest precision and according to CAD engineering standard. With conventional 3D printing software, CAD models are usually triangulated, i.e., converted to STL in the reading process, which makes it impossible to handle or repair the geometry without deviating its original shape. In comparison, 4D_Additive avoids such deviations because of its exact geometry kernel and the…
