MOCKUP for 3D walkthrough visualisation.

Tecnomatix Factory Mockup enables factory engineers and management to fly through, walk through, inspect, and animate motion in a rendered 3D factory model. Factory Mockup also provides design collaboration activities for these engineers so they can view, measure, and inspect for clearance in a 3D virtual factory model. Factory Mockup provides much more than just viewing; it is a factory visualisation, analysis, and design communication tool.

The problem: collaborating on the analysis of factory layouts

When designing a factory, people throughout the enterprise, from facility engineers and manufacturing engineers to management, benefit from being able to collaborate and view the ¬¬¬proposed layout. Typically however, communicating the design of a complete factory, or even large sections of a factory, is a difficult task. Often, factory layout models can only be viewed through the original CAD application that created them and many people either can't use that application or don't have access to it. It would also be useful to view not only the factory layout but also to see the product in its manufacturing positions, surrounded by tooling and fixtures. These elements are usually designed in CAD systems with large solid models. Combining this data within a factory layout model is yet another challenge.

The value of Factory Mockup

Factory Mockup allows people to view 3D factory designs and promotes design collaboration because users can easily fly-through the factory model to discover layout design problems early in the factory design process. Everyone who needs to see the factory design can easily access it without the CAD software packages used to create the factory model, or the product or tooling elements. With Factory Mockup, entire factory models can be loaded into an easy-to-use viewer, allowing colleagues throughout your organisation to navigate and fly through fully rendered 3D factory models. By integrating factory models into a visualization environment with motion, Factory Mockup simplifies the review and validation of factory designs. Factory designers can use Factory Mockup to incorporate graphical product data, layout models, and tooling geometry as they build an entire virtual factory model and evaluate it as never before possible.

Factory Mockup works with factory models authored in Factory CAD and allows you to merge tooling and product data from different CAD sources into one visual environment. Large graphical models are automatically stripped of non-essential information and translated into a visualisation file format so that file sizes are significantly reduced. Factory Mockup displays the rendered factory so that you can pan, zoom, and fly through the factory. This model allows all users to see how the tooling, equipment, layout, and facility will come together as a complete factory. Factory Mockup also allows you to create and play motion files so that certain operations can be dynamically viewed and clearance problems detected.

Back to Manufacturing