Proceedings of the International Conference on
Product Lifecycle Management    PLM'07
Assessing the industrial relevance

PLM-SP3, 2007
 
(from Chapter 6: Interoperability)

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Title: Implementing the interoperability between virtual reality technologies and CAD applications
  Author(s): Fabio Bruno, Maurizio Muzzupappa
  Address: University of Calabria – Department of Mechanical Engineering, via P.Bucci 44/c – 87030 Rende (CS) - Italy
f.bruno @ unical.it, muzzupappa @ unical.it
  Reference: PLM-SP3 - 2007 Proceedings  pp. 383 - 392
  Abstract/
Summary
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are widely used by industries in several phases of the Product Development Process (PDP) and, in particular, in design review and CAE data analysis. Recently, other interesting VR applications are capturing the interest of the industries, but a wider diffusion of these technologies still founds an obstacle in the poor integration with other software employed in the PDP. The present paper starts with an analysis of some new VR applications in the PDP, aiming to define the main CAD-VR interoperability topics. Then the paper shows how the CAD API can be employed to resolve some of the most common interoperability problems, describing the development of three plug-ins for Unigraphics NX3 that allow the user to quickly export meta-data needed for Virtual Assembly applications and multi-body simulations and to post-process data generated in a Virtual Cabling environment.
 
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