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News Release from: Emulate3D | Subject: Material handling modelling software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 July 2006
Material handling modelling software
deployed
Dematic plans to use the material handling modelling software to enhance pre-sales client offering, as well as to model handling system types that are impossible to model using other techniques.
Dematic UK (formerly Siemens Dematic) and Dematic Spain have recently become keen Demo3D users, Emulate3D reports Dematic plans to use the material handling modelling software to enhance their pre-sales client offering, as well as to model certain handling system types that are impossible to model faithfully using other techniques
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The Demo3D software is a great way to bring our concepts alive quickly and easily - we were actively using Demo3D on projects the day following training," said Katrina Randon (manager Simulation and Data Analysis, Dematic).
Demo3D models the interactions between material handling systems and the loads they transport using realistic physics calculations, which not only provides a more accurate representation of how the final system will operate, but also creates a more captivating presentation than is otherwise possible.
Randon added, "Concepting integrated automation systems is a very dynamic environment - we are in the business of generating ideas and creating solutions.
A tool like Demo3D keeps pace with this and gives us a way of making those ideas more real for ourselves and our customers." Demo3D users can import existing 3D models of equipment through VRML, AutoCAD's DXF format, or Autodesk Inventor files, and then add realistic movement and friction properties to them before saving them as reusable catalog elements.
Material handling systems can be rapidly constructed from these catalogs and from those provided by Emulate3D, and load types such as boxes, pallets, and so on can be introduced and made to flow just as they will in the projected real system.
Users can generate leave-behind movie files, still images in 3D, AutoCAD DXF files, VRML models and a bill of materials and rough costing.
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