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KOMPAS-3D
KOMPAS-3D, as a universal system of three-dimensional modeling, finds its application in solving various problems, including architectural and technological design. General purpose system KOMPAS-3D - the creation of three-dimensional associatuve models for individual elements and prefabricated ones.
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Solutions
KOMPAS-3D creates associative three-dimensional models of individual parts and assemblies. The models can be made from original designs and/or standard part libraries. Its parametric technology allows you to quickly generate ranges of product models based on single prototypes. Numerous utility functions help you solve auxiliary design and production problems.
Fire-fighter truck, designed in KOMPAS-3D by Pozharnye Sistemy
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A key feature of KOMPAS-3D is that it uses its own modeling kernel and parametric system, both of which were developed by the specialists at ASCON.
The fundamental purpose of KOMPAS-3D is to model new products quickly, to reduce their design time and to launch them into production as fast as possible. These goals are reached by the following features found in KOMPAS-3D:
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Quickly creates engineering and design documentation for production output, including assembly drawings, BOMs, and detail drawings.
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Cleanly translates geometry to design applications.
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Accurately exports model geometry to control-programs, such as for NC equipment.
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Efficiently generates images and illustrations for product catalogs and operating manuals.
KOMPAS-3D supports IGES, SAT, XT, STEP, and VRML formats, among many others, allowing you to import and export models to and from a variety of other CAD, CAM, and CAE systems.
KOMPAS-3D is a flexible 3D modeling system that allows you to create models by several methods, including the following ones:
- Bottom-up modeling using finished components.
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Top-down modeling by designing components to match specific designs.
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Modeling based on layout drawings, such as kinematic diagrams.
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Or any combination of these modeling methods.
These approaches allow you to create editable associative models easily.
The KOMPAS system has powerful functions for managing project of thousands of sub-assemblies, parts, and standard library products. It supports all the capabilities of 3D solids and surface modeling that have become the standard among medium-level CAD/CAM programs, including these ones:
- Intuitive creation of new geometry, and importing and manipulation of surfaces.
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Associative settings for element parameters.
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Boolean operators for generating atypically shaped elements; functions include union, intersection, and subtraction.
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Advanced surface and shape modeling for designing complex, ergonomic, and easy to use industrial products; functions include point grids, by network of curves, ruled surfaces, extrusions, lofted surfaces, swept surfaces, and revolutions.
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Construction of auxiliary lines and planes, and spatial curves, including broken lines, splines, and spirals.
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Addition of structural elements, such as chamfers, fillets, holes, stiffness elements, and thin-walled shells.
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Creation of any shape of arrays and assembly components.
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Component modeling with assemblies, with relative positioning of parts in assemblies.
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Constraints for mating assembly components, including automatic constraints for faster assembly creation.
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Special tools to simplify work with large assemblies.
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Flexible parts and assembly editing, including characteristic points.
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Redetermination of the parameters of any element at any design stage causes a reconstruction of the whole model.
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Effective mould design with pattern drafts, joint lines, cavities defined by part shape, and shrinkage allowance.
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Capable sheet metal modeling through sheet body creation, bends, holes, louver, fillets, punching (stamping) and cutting, cap closing, sheet metal unwrapping, and associative drawings of unwrapped sheet metal.
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Inserting standards products into the model from a library, generating user model libraries.
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Efficient collision detection of parts.
The KOMPAS-Graphic drawing editor is capable of automating 2D design and engineering plans for various industry verticals. It is used for machine design, civil engineering works, and for generating layout drawings and diagrams. (KOMPAS-Graphics is included in KOMPAS-3D.)
KOMPAS-Graphic can automatically generate associative drawings from three-dimensional models, including cuts, sections, local cuts, detail views, views along arrows, and views with breaks. All of these are associated with the 3D model, so that any changes to the model are reflected in the 2D drawings.
Standard views are automatically constructed, with links to projections. The properties of 2D drawings, such as designation, description, and weight, are synchronized with the 3D model.
KOMPAS-Graphic can be used in two ways:
- As a drawing and design module fully integrated into KOMPAS-3D.
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As an independent product fully capable of handling all 2D designing and documentation requirements.
KOMPAS-Graphic - Foaming agent tester designed in KOMPAS-Graphic by “VNII of Fire Protection”
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KOMPAS-Graphic’s functions are aimed at quickly creating high-quality drawings and diagrams, performing calculations, generating explanatory notes, specifications, and instructions, and outputting other documents.
KOMPAS-Graphic imports and exports drawings in DXF, DWG, and IGES formats. These translation tools allow you to exchange data with clients and customers using any other drawing system.
KOMPAS-Graphic includes the following features:
- Well-designed and convenient interface makes the designer’s work fast and enjoyable.
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Multi-document mode for working with many drawings at once.
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Various methods and modes for constructing graphical primitives, including orthogonal drawing and grid snapping.
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Management of objects in drawings.
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Power tools for creating parametric models of typical parts and assemblies.
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Creation of typical fragment libraries, with no need for programming.
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Fully flexible styles for lines, shading, and text.
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Numerous methods for placing dimensions and notations.
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Automatic selection of tolerances and deviation values.
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Fast access to typical text and designations.
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Built-in text editor with spell checking.
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Built-in table editor.
Our wide range of add-ons and libraries extend the functionality of KOMPAS-3D and KOMPAS-Graphic. The add-ons are provided by ASCON and its partners, and in all cases provide you with additional abilities for performing specialized design tasks, such as pipe and tube layouts, photorealistic image output, animation generation, kinematic and dynamic analysis, and finite element methods.
The Standard Parts Catalog contains parametric parts as 3D models and 2D drawings based on DIN and ISO standards.
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- KOMPAS-3D.
- KOMPAS-Graphic.
The Standard Parts Catalog add-on offers the following features:
- Searches standard parts with multiple variations quickly.
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Replaces parts with user defined ones .
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Modifies properties of standard parts in any order .
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Specifies geometric properties, such as distance, length, diameter, corner radius, and then sets them as key properties .
- Bookmarks the favorites list of oft-used parts for quick access.
The BOM Wizard add-on generates a comprehensive range of customizable bills of material. These tables of parts can be associated with 3D assemblies, as well as and 2D assembly drawings of one or more sheets.
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Data can be linked automatically between drawing and model elements and the BOM. The item numbers of assembly parts are transferred from BOMs to drawings. Zone numbers containing images of related parts are transferred from assembly drawings to BOMs. Names, designations, and other data are transferred from parts and assemblies to BOMs.
When assembly drawings contain standard part images from application libraries, then the information about the images are transferred to the BOM. A variety of parameters and settings allows you to create custom forms, in addition to forms that meet the Euro-Asian GOST standards. Examples include BOM lists, referenced documents lists, communication charts, and change orders.
The BOM Wizard supports the semi-automatic filling of items and sub-items, and standard sorting within item groups. Sorting rules can be modified by you. BOM Wizard tools are excellent for working with different kinds of specifications, catalogs, and lists. You can numbers lines, sort the content, and associate them with documents and other graphical objects.
The BOM Wizard add-on is excellent for generating a variety of tables, specifications, catalogs, and lists
The Steel Structures 3D add-on automates the design of steel structures from standard profiles.
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The following objects can be used as templates for designing with the Steel Structures 3D add-on:
- Straight sketch segments.
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Polyline segments.
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Straight edges of solids.
Profiles can be selected from the template folder. The structure’s position can be set or modified. Displacement directions and part turns are displayed when changing the orientation of the structure. Various ways of orientating structures spatially and the processing of parts are accessible to you.
Lengths of profiles can be modified, on the basis of steel structure parts created from the by the Steel Structures 3D add-on. Easy editing allows changing parameters of existing objects, such as trimming and extending.
This add-on also generates reports on selected objects. The report can be previewed and objects can be grouped by their properties. The report can be saved as a KOMPAS-3D document, or as a spreadsheet table that can be read by Open Office Calc and Microsoft Excel.
The Pipelines 3D add-on automates piping design. It is also suitable for use with the design of pipes in machinery and utility networks. You can create piping layouts from existing layouts, from existing document paths or by their elements, or as arbitrary layouts.
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This add-on offers the following features:
- Creates piping layouts, perform a variety of editing operations on them.
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Manually arranges the pipeline’s elements.
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Arranges elements and specifies specific types of couplings for each element.
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Allows different insets for pipes.
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Cuts selected pipe couplings.
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Rearranges bearing faces.
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Edits diameters and wall thicknesses of pipes.
The Pipelines 3D add-on automates the design of pipelines
Pipelines can be created automatically, semi-automatically, or manually. In automatic mode, layouts are defined by routes, and each route can include several paths. This mode sets tees, outlets, and cutting of selected pipe couplings based on the paths included in the routes.
In semiautomatic mode, pipelines are created by selected segments of paths; outlets and cutting of selected pipe couplings can also be created.
In manual mode, separate pipes are drawn as segments or as continuous pipes, along with specifying the radii of pipe bends.
The add-on can use user-defined components, as well as ones from the Standardized Parts Catalog add-on. Standard elements are included in the add-on:
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Pipes defined by with user-specified parameters, such as designation, external diameter, and wall thicknesses.
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Pipes defined by parameters set by an integrated table of variables.
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Pipes defined by reference to materials and stock items.
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Outlets and tees defined by an integrated table of variables.
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Outlets and tees defined by the standard parts reference.
The Template Manager add-on creates, maintains, and re-uses customized template libraries.
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- KOMPAS-3D.
- Requires Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc.
This add-on allows you to create a wide range of templates, and then fill them with objects and properties as necessary. You can connect variables in the templates with tables in a spreadsheet. Templates can be pasted into KOMPAS-3D documents as sets of objects, such as lines, arcs, and curves, as library macros, or as components, and then edited with the Template Manager tools. When placed as part or assemblies, they can be edited with KOMPAS-3D tools.
Templates can be filled out with the user’s details, fragments, and parametric tables, and linked to each other. One spreadsheet document can correspond to several parts, as well as to fragment files from the template library.
The Template Manager add-in allows users to create a range of thematic catalogs with all necessary models
The Animation add-on generates motion simulation of models developed with KOMPAS-3D.
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This add-on offers the following features:
- Simulates the real-world motions of products and their parts.
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Uses the mates applied during 3D assemblies to define the displacement and rotation of parts.
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Automatically detects collisions, revealing design errors.
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Emulates the assembly and disassembly process of products, for use by interactive technical manuals.
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Creates kinetic-diagrams and saves them as sequential frames using KOMPAS-Graphic’s FRW fragments format.
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Outputs motion videos in AVI format.
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Plays back entire animations or from the current frame.
The Animation add-on allows you to examine the design’s usefulness and operation, but also helps improve the results from competitive project development. Animations consist of showing models move in sequential steps. Different parameters and types of part motions are available for animation, such as velocity, rotation frequency, and time. These settings are saved to standard XML-format text files.
Animation add-on generates motion simulation of models developed with KOMPAS-3D
The Photorealistica rendering add-on generates photorealistic images of 3D models and assemblies. It allows you to view the product long before it is produced in the factory.
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This add-on lets you create effective product images for use in presentations, marketing, and advertising. The interactive rendering mode allows you to preview 3D model complete with textures.
The following materials features are offered by this add-on:
- Includes a broad range of materials, such as different types of metals, wood, stone, and plastics.
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Adjusts the properties of materials, such as their colors, reflection levels, transparency, glossiness, and texture.
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Specifies different materials for assemblies, parts, operations, and surfaces.
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Reduces the time needed to make photorealistic image through materials, scenes, and lighting previews.
The lights and shadows features include the following:
- Creates omni lights, spot lights, point lights, and distant lights.
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Manages shadows easily, taking into account the transparency of objects.
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Sets and adjusts lights to any color and brightness.
Scenes provide the following features:
- Creates backgrounds for better displaying of parts and assemblies.
- Adds a wide range of decorations, and saves them to 3D model files.
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Views previously created scenes, including lights, backgrounds, and decorations.
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Selects standard scenes for quick creation of quality images.
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Imports background images from JPEG, TARGA, TIFF, and BMP files.
Text and labels offer the following:
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Create user-defined labels and text as decals on products.
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Adjust the size, position, and transparency of text.
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Able to apply a number of labels and text to every part, element, and face.
The photorealistic images are output to a separate window, and can be saved in to files in JPEG, TARGA, TIFF, or BMP format at any resolution.
Photorealistica generates photorealistic images of 3D models and assemblies created with KOMPAS-3D
The Universal Mechanism Express add-on applies dynamic, kinematic, and static analysis to 3D models. It is made for design engineers who need to find solutions involving the operation of machines and mechanisms.
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Mechanisms are described by systems of rigid bodies, joints, and force elements. All necessary dynamic and kinematic variables are available for analysis from this add-on, including coordinates, velocities, acceleration, joint reaction forces, and spring forces. Real-time 3D animation is supported during the simulation process.
The add-on offers the following functions:
- Works with linear and harmonic time-dependent force elements of various types, which are included in a standard database.
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Models cam mechanisms and gear trains through contact force elements.
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Sets uniform, uniformly accelerated and decelerated motions, and harmonic oscillations for selected degrees of freedom in kinematic analyses.
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Applies parameters of force elements and kinematic expressions.
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Calculates positions of equilibrium; evaluates natural frequencies and eigen values of models, as defined by parameters
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Creates AVI video files of the simulation results.
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Plots graphs of every dynamic and kinematic variable.
The add-on includes twenty samples of dynamic models that model the kinematics and dynamics of car suspensions, engines, robots, machines, and other mechanisms. The online help includes detailed information on how best to prepare models for analysis, and step-by-step instructions for all stages of model creation and analysis process.
The Universal Mechanism Express add-on is designed for dynamic, kinematic, and static analysis of models developed with KOMPAS-3D
APM FEM is an add-in that designs and calculates machine elements, mechanisms, and structures, and performs general purpose strength analysis using FEM (finite element method). APM FEM includes assembly preparation tools for performing calculations, setting boundary conditions, and specifying loads. An integrated generator of finite-element meshes creates both fixed and variable-size meshes. It also includes post-processor. These functions allow it to work with solid parts and assemblies designed in KOMPAS-3D, and to analyse the behaviour of models when various loads are applied, such as statics, fundamental frequencies, stability, and thermal loading.
APM FEM solves the following linear problems:
- Intensely deformed states (static calculations)
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Static strengths of assemblies
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Stability
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Thermoelasticity
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Stationary thermal conduction
Results of calculations include the following:
- Equivalent stresses and their components, and principal stresses
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Linear, angular, and total displacements
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Strains in model components
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Maps and orthographic epures of internal forces
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Contact forces within an allowed band of contacts
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Value of safety factors, and the forms of loss of stability
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Safety factors and numbers of cycles, as determined by fatigue strength
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Safety factors as determined by flow and strength
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Temperature fields and thermotension
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Centres of gravity, weights, sizes, lengths, areas of surface, model moments of inertia, static moments, and the squares of cross-sections
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Supporting forces in construction legs, and the cumulative responses adduced to the centres of gravity of models
The TraceParts Online Library add-on is one of the largest mechanical part catalogs in the world. By using parts in your drawings from this library, you greatly reduce the time it takes to complete a design.
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The library consists of more than 100 million 3D CAD models and 2D drawings. The parts are based on European and other suppliers in the tooling, machinery, aerospace, automotive, and others industries. You launch TraceParts directly from inside KOMPAS-3D. Select a part, and then insert it into your assembly as a native 3D or 2D part.
KOMPAS-3D users can dramatically increase their productivity by reducing time for designing with the library
The eCAD–KOMPAS-3D Converter add-on imports 3D circuit board models from eCAD systems.
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The converter reads data from eCAD (electronic CAD) systems in the standard IDF exchange format into KOMPAS-3D. This add-on works specifically with P-CAD (v. 2000-2006), OrCAD (v. 9.X), and Altium Designer (previously known as Protel).
eCAD-KOMPAS-3D converter can read the standardized data exchange IDF format in KOMPAS-3D
The 3D-Model Recognition System add-on recognizes elements of parts and assemblies imported into KOMPAS-3D from other CAD systems. This makes you more efficient by returning intelligence normally removed from imported models.
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This add-on recovers the history tree from 3D models imported from other MCAD systems. This allows you to make full use of parts and assemblies imported into KOMPAS-3D, including its editing commands.
3D-Model Recognition System recovers the design tree for imported 3D models
The KOMPAS-Macro add-on allows you to record, replay, and store macros. Macros are drawing and editing steps that are executed like a single command, which allows you to design more quickly.
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The macro development environment is Python, a high-level object-oriented programming language. To supplement Python, KOMPAS includes standard Windows API functions and KOMPAS-specific macro library functions. Macro are stored in text files.
The Unwrap add-on automates the design of dust, gas, and air flues, pipelines, and other sheetmetal parts. It automates time-consuming calculations and construction processes, and so accelerates the speed at which these drawings are created.
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The add-on also creates unwrap drawings of selected units with specified precision, calculates product masses, and saves coordinates of curves to text files. The following shapes can be unwrapped:
- Truncated cylinders
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Regular, truncated, and sloped truncated cones
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T-branches of different cylindrical and tapered shapes
A text file of the unwrap's contour design points can be used by CNC machines.
The Mould and Die Design add-in helps automate the design, analysis, and construction of steel moulds used for making plastic parts from pressure castings. The add-in provides the following functions:
- Analyzes 3D models
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Designs the shapes of die moulds
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Models the mould channeling systems
Mould and Die Design add-in is a powerful system that increases the production performance of designers, improves the quality of the design, and so enhances the competitiveness of a company's products.
The Dimensional Chain add-in calculates dimension chains for drawings and fragments. Elements of a dimension chain are represented by fixed dimensions or line segments. The add-in performs calculations for horizontal, vertical, and angled dimensions; calculations can include maximum-minimum or probability-theoretical methods.
Discrepancies are calculated for nominal dimensions in the range of 0 – 10 000mm. For dimension chains in which at least one nominal size does not fit into the range, only calculations of nominal values are performed.
The following tolerances are calculated: “A” “B” “C” “CD” “D” “E” “EF” “F” “FG” “G” “H” “JS” “K” “M” “N” “P” “R” “S” “T” “U” “V” “X” “Y” “Z” “ZA” “ZB” and “ZC” with an accuracy 0 to 18 decimal places. Both shafts and holes are supported.
The Dimensional Chains Calculation add-in calculates dimension chains, and finds the right value of closing segments using a variety of calculation methods.
Export Import Options
KOMPAS Сollaboration with third-party Software Solutions
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Text documentation, BOM |
Import |
- DXF,
- DWG,
- IGES,
- TIFF,
- GIF,
- JPEG,
- BMP,
- PNG,
- TGA.
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- IGES,
- SAT,
- Parasolid,
- STEP.
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- ASCII (DOS) text file,
- ANSI (Windows) text file,
- RTF files,
- TIFF,
- GIF,
- JPEG,
- BMP,
- PNG,
- TGA.
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Export |
- DXF,
- DWG,
- 2D IGES,
- e-drawing,
- TIFF,
- GIF,
- JPEG,
- BMP,
- PNG,
- TGA.
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- IGES,
- SAT,
- Parasolid,
- STEP,
- VRML,
- STL,
- e-drawing,
- TIFF,
- GIF,
- JPEG,
- BMP,
- PNG,
- TGA.
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- ASCII (DOS) text file,
- ANSI (Windows) text file,
- RTF,
- DBF,
- Microsoft Excel,
- TIFF,
- GIF,
- JPEG,
- BMP,
- PNG,
- TGA.
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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®;
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reading 3D-model files from IGES®, SAT, XT, STEP formats;
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writing 3D-model files to IGES®, SAT, XT, STEP, VRML and STL formats;
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writing BOM to DBF and Microsoft Excel formats;
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writing KOMPAS documents to different bitmapped formats (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TGA);
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reading and writing ASCII (DOS), ANSI (Windows) text file formats; reading RTF files;
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writing 3D-models, drawings and BOM to e-Drawings.
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