Mechanical CAD with KOMPAS-3D
KOMPAS-3D is intended for creating three-dimensional associative models for individual parts and assembly units containing both original and standardized structural elements. The parametric technology allows quickly obtaining models for typical products basing on a once designed prototype. Numerous service functions facilitate solving auxiliary designing and production maintenance problems.
Cantilevered-turning crane, produced by “Domnaremont” JSC, Russia
A key feature of KOMPAS-3D is the use of its own mathematical core and parametric technologies developed by ASCON specialists.
The basic task being solved by the system is the modelling of products in order to considerably reduce the period of their designing and launch them into production as fast as possible. These purposes being reached by the following features:
- Fast creating of engineering and design documentation for production output (assembly drawings, BOM, detail drawings etc.),
- Translating geometry into design applications
- Translating geometry into control-program development kits for NC-controlled equipment
- Creating additional images (for catalogue creation, for creating of illustrations of manuals etc.)
The model export/import tools (KOMPAS-3D supports IGES, SAT, XT, STEP, VRML formats) provide functioning of complexes containing various CAD/CAM/CAE systems.
KOMPAS-3D
The product modelling in KOMPAS-3D can be carried out by various methods, namely: down-top modelling (using finished components), top-down modelling (designing components in the context of a specific design), modelling based on a layout outline drawing (for example, on a kinematic diagram) or a combination of modelling methods. Such ideology provides obtaining easily modifiable associative models.
Instrument drive, produced by FGUP VNII Signal, Russia
The system has a powerful functional for the management of project including several thousand sub-assemblies, parts and standard products. It supports all the capabilities of three-dimensional solid-state modelling that have become a standard for medium-level CAD/CAM designs:
- Boolean operations on typical shape-generating elements;
- Creation of surfaces,
- Associative setting of elements parameters;
- Construction of auxiliary straight lines and planes, spatial curves (broken lines, splines, various spirals);
- Creation of structural elements, i.e. chamfers, fillets, holes, stiffness elements, thin-walled shells;
- Special possibilities facilitating the construction of foundry moulds, i.e. pattern draft, joint lines, cavities according to the part shape (including those with the setting of shrinkage);
- Functional for sheet material modelling – commands for creating of sheet body, bends, holes, louver, fillets, punching(stamping) and cuttings in sheet body, caps closing, and also for unwraping of obtained sheet body (including creating associative drawing of unwrapping),
- Creation of any shape-generating arrays and assembly components;
- Inserting standards products into the model from a library, generating user model libraries;
- Component modelling in the context of assembly, relative determination of parts comprising the assembly;
- Imposition of mating for assembly components (in doing so, a possibility of automatic imposition of mating considerably increases the rate of assembly creation);
- Detection of the interpenetration of parts;
- Special tools to simplify the work with large assemblies,
- A possibility of flexible editing of parts and assemblies, including with characteristic points,
- Re-determination of the parameters of any element on any designing stage causing a re-construction of the whole model.
KOMPAS-Graphic
KOMPAS-Graphic drawing editor offers broadest capabilities for the automation of design and engineering works in various industry branches. It is successfully used in machine-building design, in civil engineering design, at drawing up various plans and diagrams.
KOMPAS-Graphic successfully used in machine-building design, in civil engineering design, at drawing up various plans and diagrams
KOMPAS-Graphic can be used as a drawing and outline design module being fully integrated into KOMPAS-3D or as an independent product fully covering the problems of 2D-designing and release of documentation.
The graphical document import/export tools (KOMPAS-Graphic supports DXF, DWG, IGES formats) allow to arrange a data exchange with allied companies and customers using any drawing and graphical systems.
The whole KOMPAS-Graphic functional is aimed at quickly creating high-quality drawings, diagrams, calculation and explanatory notes, specifications, instructions and other documents.
The following elements are provided for users:
- A well thought-out and convenient interface making the designer’s work fast and enjoyable,
- A multidocument working mode for operations with drawings
- Various methods and modes of construction of graphical primitives (including orthogonal drawing, grid snapping, etc.)
- Management of the order of graphical object drawing
- Power tools for the creation of parametric models for typical parts or assembly units being most often used
- Creation of typical fragment libraries without any programming
- Any styles of lines, shading, texts
- Numerous methods of dimensioning and process notation
- Automatic selection of tolerances and deviations
- Fast access to typical texts and designations
- Built-in text editor with spell checking
- Built-in table editor.
KOMPAS-Graphic will automatically generate associative types of three-dimensional models (including cuts, sections, local cuts, local views, views along arrow, views with a break). All of them are associated with the model, i.e. any changes in the model will result in changes in the drawing image. The standard views will automatically be constructed with projection links. The main drawing caption data (designation, description, weight) are synchronised with the three-dimensional model data.
KOMPAS Сollaboration with third-party Software Solutions
Special attention is paid for providing comfortable and fast data exchange with third-party CAD systems, used by a customer. KOMPAS-3D contains different converters for data exchange with third-party CAD systems, engineering calculations and analysis, part-program creation etc. Users of KOMPAS-3D get most of data translation functions for free. These functions include:
- Reading and writing of graphics files in formats DXF, DWG, IGES®
- Reading 3D-model files from DWG, DXF, IGES®, SAT, XT, STEP formats
- Writing 3D-model files to IGES®, SAT, XT, STEP, VRML and STL formats
- Writing BOM to DBF and Microsoft Excel formats
- Writing KOMPAS documents to different bitmapped formats (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TGA)
- Reading and writing ASCII (DOS), ANSI (Windows) text file formats; reading RTF files
- Writing 3D-models, drawings and BOM to e-Drawings.