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News Release from: ICEM | Subject: Surface modelling and evaluation software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 July 2003
Jaguar Cars uses ICEM's surface design
software
Jaguar Cars has recently standardised on ICEM Surf 3D surface modelling and evaluation software for the majority of the design and development of the free-form surface shapes
At a press briefing in London today, at which a representative from Jaguar Cars was a speaker, ICEM Ltd stated that the luxury sports car maker has recently standardised on ICEM Surf 3D surface modelling and evaluation software for the majority of the design and development of the free-form surface shapes that reflect the identity of the Jaguar brand Over the past two years, the designers who have responsibility for the body and other visible surfaces of the vehicles developed at Jaguar's design and engineering centre near Coventry in the UK, have been able to complete the design of nine new vehicles, along with their variants, thanks largely to the use of ICEM Surf's advanced surface modelling and diagnostics tools
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Among the latest of these new vehicles to be launched to the public is the aluminium-bodied Jaguar XJ saloon, which recently went on sale.
Steve Smith, senior manager, technical and engineering services, in Jaguar's design department, has responsibility for the aesthetics aspects of all design information released to engineering for the detailed engineering design process.
ICEM Surf provides him and his team with a very powerful set of surface modelling and surface diagnostics tools for use in the vehicle body development process.
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The shapes that precisely define the aesthetic qualities of the customer-visible surfaces of Jaguar's cars are all produced with ICEM Surf, enabling Smith and his team to efficiently produce the complex free-form shapes that give the Jaguar brand its identity.
The facilities of the ICEM Surf software suite are made available to Jaguar's designers in Coventry over the Ford Motor Company's worldwide CSL network.
Up to some 25 designers at any one time in the UK will be using various aspects of the software's range of facilities on a specific project to create and refine the digital surface model data required for the downstream detailed engineering design process.
Apart from the ability to create complex 3D surface models from 2D and 3D scan data, as well as from scratch using the software's surface creation tools and then both graphically and mathematically manipulate them, ICEM Surf enables Jaguar's designers to diagnose and evaluate body designs for reflections, highlights, curvature and continuity across adjoining body panels, etc In addition, sophisticated tools within the software enable them to take manufacturability into account by producing gaps between panels that are correct visually but in practice may be required to be different geometrically.
During the design development process, ICEM Surf data is also used in the generation of the numerical control (NC) tool path programs required for the machining of early physical prototype models of the vehicle body in soft materials, such as clay, foam and resin.
However, once the final design has been signed off, the data is released for use in the detailed engineering design process and is exported to Jaguar's I-deas CAD/CAM system using the direct data translator in ICEM Surf.
In summarising the benefits that Jaguar Cars gets from the use of ICEM Surf, Smith makes the point that the Jaguar brand is about form and that, to a large extent, Jaguar cars are an emotional purchase.
The link between direct surface manipulation and the range of diagnostic tools within ICEM Surf, with the instant feedback to the designers that this gives, is therefore very important in enabling his design team to develop the forms that fit the Jaguar brand image.
Furthermore, he can be confident that the surface data that is released to engineering is right first time.
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