KOMPAS-3D V13

KOMPAS-3D V13 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.

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A key feature of KOMPAS-3D V13 is the use of its own mathematical core and parametric technologies developed by ASCON specialists.

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This system achieves efficient product modelling in order to considerably reduce design time and launch them into production as fast as possible. This is achieved with 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 catalog creation, for creating of illustrations of manuals etc.)

The model export/import tools (KOMPAS-3D V13 supports IGES, ACIS SAT, XT, STEP, and VRML formats) provide functioning of complexes containing various CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

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The product modelling in KOMPAS-3D V13 can be carried out by various methods, namely: top-down 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.

KOMPAS-3D V13 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:

• An APM FEM add-in that functions as a fully integrated stress analysis solution that operates in a single window.
• The included Mould and Die Design System is a powerful tool that increases the productivity of designers making moulds for the plastics industry by increasing design quality.
• The Welding Symbols library creates welding seam designations in drawings according to the standards specified by ISO 2553:1992 and DIN 22553-1997.
• Boolean operations on typical shape-generating elements
• Advanced surfaces and shape modeling enables user to design more complex, ergonomic and easy to use products. Working with various surfaces is supported: by point grid, by network of curves, ruled surfaces, extruded, lofted surfaces, sweep surfaces, and revolve. Creating new geometry, or importing and manipulating new surfaces, is easy and intuitive.
• 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 unwrapping 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
• 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