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CAD Data Exchange AutomationSharing product data among dissimilar software applications seems impossible at times and often results in increased turnaround times and greater cost. Even in the age where technology should be helping (and not hindering) lean manufacturing initiatives, it is often the roadblock to concurrent process and product development. Consequently, reliable data exchange automation has never been more critical, yet more complex. Complex Multi-CAD ChallengesWhen collaborating with suppliers, customers, and partners in a multi-CAD environment, CAD data must be translated from one CAD system and format into another. These translations must be performed quickly, accurately, and reliably to ensure your collaborators receive data they can use immediately. CAD Data exchange automation provides a robust CAD processing environment to address these issues. It can be utilized as part of a system for Supplier CAD Data Collaboration or as a behind the scenes batch translation process driven from PLM or other business applications. The results for customers is automated solutions that can reduce more than 80% of wasted labor and resource costs associated with data exchange. By working with CAD Interop to implement automated interoperability solutions, our clients have taken the important business step of allowing Engineers and Designers to create products and services without wasting time on product data interoperability work. This enables CAD Interop's customers to create better products and services and improve the value to their respective markets. Benefits of Data Exchange AutomationInterop CAD based on 15 years of experience in the field of CAD data exchange and DEXcenter product knowledge to offer a solution for automating data exchange Best Practices: Getting high quality translations consistently is more than simply using a different translator. There are dozens of variables, some large, some small, that affect whether a translated model is usable or requires additional rework. CAD interop's knowledge in translation automation incorporates the decades of ITI experience in this field. Verification: When data exchange automation is combined with quality checking and validation via ITI TranscenData's CADIQ Product, a mathematical comparison of the original and translated models can be performed. Rather than just a visual inspection, deviations in mass properties, shape, structure through a deep geometric evaluation can be executed. Quality parameters affecting usability are identified and the relationships between underlying quality issues and related feature parameters are established. For more details, please see a general overview of CAD Model Quality and Validation Solution. Extensive Processing Support: DEXcenter's exchange automation solution is enabled to support processing of hundreds of assorted CAD related applications including but not limited to:
Intelligent, Scalable, Dynamic Translations: Data Exchange Automation can be configured to intelligently adapt to different translation conditions which might require using different translators or different translation options. It also supports multiple translation servers and load balancing mechanisms to allow scaling to achieve the desired throughput. Configurable: CAD Interop is in the business of helping customers support the needs of many different exchange automation requirements within a client's environment. This requires adjusting processes to match their needs which is accomplished as follows:
Effective Resource Utilization: CAD Interop's approach to data exchange automation maximizes the use of expensive software licenses. Rather than have multiple translator licenses on assorted users desktops, consolidating use through DEXcenter reduces the need for licenses. License checking and load balancing keeps these licenses busy while simultaneously reducing the risk of failures due to unavailable resources.. Traceability: All information is stored from any task in the system. At any time, the user or administrator can retrieve this information. Conclusions : An automatic process easy to useThe user process is limited only to select data and recipient. DEXcenter does the rest automatically :
Your Data exchanges are secured, reliable and tracable.
DEXcenter is a secure, scalable enterprise portal solution for effectively managing data exchange, including CAD translations, between suppliers and customers. DEXcenter’s automated translation and transmission processes get data to partners more quickly, allowing companies to decrease time-to-market for new products. More information about DEXcenter Product By enabling effective engineering data interoperability, CADfix removes significant barriers that can hamper the reuse of solid models. Without CADfix, users of downstream applications have little alternative but to rework models from scratch. Research suggests that remodeling can consume as much as 80% of the length of a typical engineering project, time that can only be considered wasted. With CADfix, little or no rework is necessary and engineers are free to spend their time doing what they’re being paid for. Experience has shown that CADfix pays for itself in productivity gains within the first few months. Through a user-friendly Wizard interface, the geometry repair and preparation process within CADfix ensures that the model is correctly defined and suitably flavored for the downstream application by detecting and repairing a range of CAD geometry issues. CADfix also offers model de-featuring utilities which are very popular with CAE analysis users who require automated de-featuring operations (i.e. joining or collapsing of short edges and small faces, removing fillets and rounds, removing holes, etc.). More information about CADfix product Proficiency is a feature-based translation solution enabling the transfer of complete design intelligence between major CAD systems, such as geometry, features, sketches, manufacturing information, metadata, assembly information and drawings in the conversion process. Accurate and usable models are achieved with up to 95% automation. Proficiency also provides a CAD completion wizard to help users improve the automated results. Proficiency offers automated reporting, including feature Q/A validation, transaction records, and integration with CADIQ (for source-to-target validation and downstream usability analysis). This reporting allows design teams to understand issues related to their data capture practice, such as what modeling techniques and features are most or least portable, robust or standard, resulting in designs that capture true design intent without peculiarities of one particular system or representation. ; The Proficiency solution is packaged as a scalable web-based server and may be integrated as part of a PLM workflow or embedded in an interoperability automation solution (i.e. DEXcenter). More information about Proficiency product When data exchange automation is combined with quality checking and validation via ITI TranscenData's CADIQ Product, a mathematical comparison of the original and translated models can be performed. Rather than just a visual inspection, deviations in mass properties, shape, structure through a deep geometric evaluation can be executed. Quality parameters affecting usability are identified and the relationships between underlying quality issues and related feature parameters are established. For more details, please visit the CAD Model Validation Solution Page. More information about CADIQ product |
