Model Based Definition and Technical Data Packages
Create, publish, and distribute secure 3D PDF documents containing high quality Brep geometry and supplier-specific interactive product manufacturing data.
Industry Problem
Although the manufacturing industry has largely benefitted from adopting 3D CAD across the enterprise, nearly all manufacturers still rely on 2D drawings to communicate design intent, manufacturing and inspection information, and other important data. Unfortunately, creating 2D drawings to communicate this essential information requires additional effort and cost, and can lead to discrepancies between the 3D CAD model and derivative 2D drawing.
Anark 3D MBD & PMI Solutions
Anark can help your company to create and distribute secure, 3D PDF documents with product manufacturing information, dimensions, and tolerances and eliminate the cost, time, and complexity required to support 2D drawings.
Leveraging the broad popularity of Adobe's PDF platform and near universal availability of 3D viewing products like the free Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, Anark is enabling the "final phase" of the 3D CAD revolution with cost-effective solutions to efficiently create, author, and publish manufacture-quality 3D PDF's with relevant product manufacturing information, dimensions, tolerances, and other annotations. Anark is also working with other vendors to automatically analyze and validate derivative 3D CAD geometry, and can provide audit trails at critical steps in a manufacturing workflow. Unlike other solutions available, Anark's MBD (Model Based Definition) solutions do not require downstream consumers of this data to purchase expensive CAD software or download proprietary viewers to view PMI (Product Manufacturing Information).
Filter Complex CAD and MBD with Anark Core
As manufactured goods have become more complicated, the 3D CAD models, workflows, and processes required to produce these goods have become heavy, complex, and difficult to manipulate and understand.
Anark customers in aerospace, defense, heavy industry, and energy have discovered that the Anark Core Platform is the most cost-effective solution for quickly and easily removing unnecessary and proprietary information from complex CAD assemblies. Now, with equally powerful tools for filtering MBD (Model Based Definition) data, Anark Core allows customers to selectively highlight key manufacturing information like critical dimensions, tolerances, and other important manufacturing information. Anark has also developed an Acrobat plug-in that interactively highlights the particular manufacturing features or component geometry when the corresponding PMI annotation is selected in the 3D viewport.
Benefits
Anark Core's unique CAD simplification and translation tools, coupled with powerful features to deliver 3D model based definition, allows companies to eliminate time, cost, and quality issues surrounding 2D drawing creation and distribution. Anark Core's intelligent, recipe-based automated CAD processing enables substantial cost savings by solving significant practical problems found locked within most PLM databases such as:
- Assemblies are too complex for suppliers to work with in their CAD native format
- Tolerance data is too complex to understand easily
- Supplier does not have or cannot afford the native CAD system software
- Related manufacturing data not stored within the PLM must be delivered with the MBD
- MBD delivered B-rep geometry is suspect
- PMI data does not convey design intent
- Delivered MBD data is out of sync on each Design/Manufacturing revision
Anark Core: Automated CAD simplification
Anark Core significantly reduces the time and cost associated with 3D CAD file simplification and preparation by recording all CAD transformation steps into "recipes" that can be automatically applied to large CAD assemblies, complex part components, and confusion model based definition. Then, when design or MBD changes are submitted, Anark Core reprocesses these recipes and replaces previously created and delivered documents with the updated data. Recording CAD model preparation and simplification tasks "captures the knowledge" and enables reapplication of these steps at any time, resulting in a predictable, efficient and error free business process.
Securely share CAD data across the extended enterprise and supply chain
Unlike other solutions, Anark Core can embed accurate B-rep CAD models suitable for design markup, measurement, manufacturing and review within the 3D PDF document. Embedding B-rep data within 3D PDF documents enables OEM's and suppliers to exchange "real" (manufacture-quality) CAD data within secure, rights-managed engineering documents allowing suppliers to create tooling, NC-CAM programs, perform analysis or create rapid prototypes from the "real" CAD data. When paired with the Adobe product suite, Anark Core automates the production of use-case specific CAD models for document based collaboration applications, thereby increasing the portability, value, and relevance of the 3D CAD and CAD related manufacturing information.
Production proven: Anark knowledge, technology, and delivery
Knowledge
Anark has a proven track record of providing domain knowledge and solutions to customer problems and business objectives for 3D application deployment throughout the Enterprise.
Technology
Advanced 3D authoring, delivery, and data management tools and technology combined with "best of breed" industry standard products and solutions. Anark's marketing visualization solutions provide a cost effective bridge between 3D CAD data and web-based, application-based, and Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle solutions to provide extended 3D PDF features and capabilities including document distribution, tracking, and digital rights management.
Delivery
Unrivaled track record for delivering successful 3D visualization & PLM solutions for the industry's most demanding and innovative customers.
