There’s a notion in the design/engineering collaboration software world that we should tolerate crappy avatars and unrealistic representations of participants in the virtual world, just as we tolerate flat-shaded 3D models, “because: engineering”. One of the handful of companies addressing this is DyeMansion and its new PowerShot Dual Performance system, which combines de-powdering and finishing of polymer additive parts in one slick, highly automated unit.Ī glimpse of the future of virtual collaboration By sidestepping the age-old challenges of defining contact and meshing, and by providing near real-time results, irrespective of assembly size or complexity, it allows engineers to evaluate fully featured assemblies, rather than idealised, stripped-back data.Īnd that makes the whole process far more efficient.Īs we move into an era in which additive is a serious contender in production manufacturing, we’re going to need the ancillary tools for post-processing and finishing that traditional manufacturing processes have had for decades. The received wisdom here has been that simulation and complex assemblies are the sole purview of the analyst.Īltair’s SimSolid rewrites that rulebook. Mainstream simulation tools have for too long focused on static structural analysis of single parts.
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