Motion Simulation, Kinematics, and Dynamic Interference and Clearance checks in Product Engineering

Accurately describing and simulating motion in 3D has always remained surprisingly complex yet in the XVL Digital Manufacturing solutions, the motion of design ideas in 3D can be rapidly animated, checked and approved.

By importing your 3D data into XVL Studio Pro or Standard, you can quickly define motion and create animations for kinematics simulation. The animations can be viewed in the free XVL Player, shared via Excel spreadsheet using Lattice3D Reporter and in HTML using XVL Web Master. Animating your 3D data to describe motion is easy, automated and fast.

XVL Studio also delivers highly advanced and accurate tools for interference, clearance and contact checks that can be run in both static and dynamic modes. These allow motion simulations not only to be easily created but for accurate checks to be executed on the data as part of a Digital MockUp (DMU) process within your manufacturing operation.

According to Wikipedia, Kinematics “describes the motion of objects without consideration of the circumstances leading to the motion.” The XVL solutions allow product engineers to accurately verify and detail a design down to its minutest detail, especially when the design data is held within a digital manufacturing process. XVL Solutions deliver the advanced tools that engineers need, in applications that are simple and easy to use, yet highly accurate for critical aspects of verifying a design - motion, kinematics, interference, contact and clearance.

The dream of lean manufacturing using 3D, PLM and PDM, is to be able to create, design, engineer and verify a 3D design prior to it ever having to take physical form. That same data should then be immediately usable in production planning and design, procurement, assembly and into support and maintenance functions. XVL solutions provide all the tools you need for powerful digital manufacturing, making your operation far more efficient, productive and leaner than ever before.

Lattice Technology's Digital Manufacturing solutions deliver the necessary applications to leverage your 3D CAD data into a true digital manufacturing process.

• Expand your Digital Manufacturing processes to non-CAD users: Our applications and free Viewers integrate perfectly into the workflow, allowing non-CAD users to be able to see, verify and review 3D data as easily as a CAD user - without the need for CAD tools.
• Dramatically improved accuracy of design by more than 60%: Lattice technology's applications deliver rapid mathematical-based interrogation and reporting of tolerances, interferences, clearances and contact incidents through a 3D assembly of any size, allowing errors to be found earlier and faster in the design process and reported back via Excel spreadsheet.
• Faster sharing of usable 3D data: Our XVL format delivers very high compression of 3D data with no loss of accuracy, to enable rapid sharing of 3D data
• Integrated support for 3D CAD, PLM and ERP: Our industry-leading converters and the XVl System Toolkit allows rapid integration of XVL applications and formats into your existing Engineering IT implementation
• Decreased product lead times by as much as 66%: Faster, accurate verification of design data through mathematically accurate design review, easy simulation, and accurate reporting delivers products to market significantly faster
• Enterprise-wide knowledge of the product design: Both CAD and non-CAD users can view, asses and use 3D data via an interactive lists (Excel and HTML) as animations, simulations and within formal design review.
• Ability to share results using standard formats: Deliver simulations, 3D parts lists, error and interference checks, and more via Microsoft Excel, PDF and HTML to enable all stakeholders in the operation to see data using corporate-wide standards for file exchange.
• Build on concurrent engineering practises to increase productivity: Simulation and animation of 3D assemblies can allow for concurrent engineering of production processes, assembly processes and training, far in advance of actual production.