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According to Frédéric Jacqmin, our Vice President of Worldwide Business Development, a simulation or CAM engineer can spend more than half of their productive time just preparing CAD data before the high-value work begins. That's hours lost to converting files, healing geometry, stitching assemblies and building meshes. None of it is the job they were hired to do.
The piece does a nice job explaining why these handoffs between CAD, CAE and CAM are so fragile.
Formats don't always speak to each other, geometric detail gets lost in translation, and important manufacturing information quietly disappears along the way. It also looks at why the usual fixes, whether that's a patchwork of open-source libraries or a rigid black-box tool, often trade one headache for another.
From there, it explores a more joined-up way of working. Instead of treating interoperability, data preparation, modeling and visualization as separate islands, the article shows what happens when they're built to work together as one continuous workflow.
It walks through how technologies like 3D InterOp, Data Prep, our 3D ACIS and CGM modelers, and the AGM application framework fit into that picture.
There's also a great real-world example: Kawasaki Heavy Industries used these tools to automate robot teaching inside its neoROSET offline programming platform.
If your team spends more time preparing data than actually designing products, it's well worth a read. Thanks again to engineering.com for the thoughtful write-up!
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