Brief
information about the innovative improvements and new
libraries in KOMPAS-3D V10.
3D Parametric
Modelling and Design Improvements
New abilities for 3D parametric modelling
are available now: modify dimension values in sketches
by editing of solid operations, full-functional solid
operations in assembly. Now could be used the same operations
when working with parts as when working with assemblies
(*.a3d): add/remove material, create fillets, chamfers,
ribs etc. Thus now users can create solids belonging
to the assembly itself but not to any of its components.
TraceParts Online
KOMPAS-3D V10 includes direct access
to TraceParts Online Library - one of the largest Mechanical
Part catalogues in the world, and feature to import
more than 100 million 3D CAD models and 2D drawings,
containing European-based and other parts suppliers
in the tooling, machinery, aerospace, automotive and
many others industries.
Pipelines 3D
It is a specialized application for
system KOMPAS-3D, intended for automation of designing
pipes and tubes. The library is perfect for using in
mechanical engineering and by designing of engineering
networks.
APM Studio FEM
Special partnership application for
calculation and finite element analyses of machine elements,
designed in KOMPAS, and visualization of results of
this calculations.
eCAD-KOMPAS-3D converter
The 3D circuit board model converter
is a specialized module used to import a 3D circuit
board model designed in systems like P-CAD and Altium
Designer (also named Protel in the past). The converter
can read the standardized data exchange IDF format in
KOMPAS-3D. The converter works with IDF-files exported
from P-CAD (v. 2000-2006), OrCAD (v. 9.X), and Altium
Designer.
KOMPAS-Macro
A new library named KOMPAS-Macro is
included in the KOMPAS-3D package. It allows recording,
replaying and storing macros.
The macro development environment is Python, which
is an object-oriented high level programming language.
To develop the initial text of a macro, standard Win
API functions as well as specialized KOMPAS-Macro library
functions facilitating the development process may be
used. Following the development, the software text,
or so-called KOMPAS macro, is stored in a text file.
Application library
This free library extends basic feature,
such as Check closeness, replace texts in different
drawing's objects, Associate dimensions features and
others.
These are not the only novelties and enhancements in
KOMPAS-3D. The considerable updates were implemented
in creating BOMs, working with tables, sketchers and
graphical documents, interface, new service functions
and others.
KOMPAS-3D V10 is the first version of mid-range MCAD
solution totally available not only in English, but
also and in German language. For ASCON' customers all
over the world French, Czech, Polish and Chinese versions
of the software are also available. Contact our resellers
in over 30 countries to know more about KOMPAS Professional
Solution for MCAD.
KOMPAS-3D
OVERVIEW
KOMPAS-3D
— CAD solution for 3D Solid Modelling and 2D Drafting
A key feature of KOMPAS-3D is the use
of its own mathematical core and parametric technologies
developed by ASCON specialists.
The basic problem 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
means of the following features:
- fast creating of engineering and design documentation,
necessary 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 example, 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.
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.
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 are-construction of
the whole model.
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