KOMPAS-3D
ASCON forged the KOMPAS-3D design system to be so powerful that it manages projects with thousands of sub-assemblies, parts, and objects from standards libraries. It provides you with all the 3D modeling capabilities that are standard among mid-level CAD/CAM programs today.
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Solid Modeling Solid modeling typically starts by drawing 2D sketch objects, which you turn into 3D parts fixing them with constraints, extruding them by specified distances, rotating them about their axis, and so on. You further refine 3D parts with editing commands that add chamfers and fillets, cut holes, add stiffeners, and much more. To create complex assemblies, you join multiple parts together with rules and 3D constraints. |
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Surface Modeling Surface models typically begin with the creation of 2D and 3D profiles made from all sorts of curves, spatial lines, and points. You then create 3D surfaces by extruding, revolving, and generating them along paths; by defining sections, and grids of curves; and more. You can further refine surfaces by trimming, splitting, extending, and restoring them; by adding cutouts to them; and so on. KOMPAS-3D turns surfaces into solid models when you assign thicknesses and materials to them. |
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Sheet Metal Modeling KOMPAS-3D designs all kinds of sheet metal parts, instrument packages, electrical cabinets, brackets, and so on with its sheet metal functions. You can design practically anything that can be produced by sheet metal forming like bending and stamping. Once your design is complete, you prepare sheet metal parts for production by generating dimensioned flat patterns from them. |
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Object Modeling Instead of drawing sketches and modeling parts, image adding them to assemblies much more quickly with the assistance of pre-drawn objects. You design rapidly with objects based on typical industry parts, such as pipes, gears, fasteners, and other metal shapes. KOMPAS-3D offers objects that can be modified quickly, understand how to behave with other parts in models, and store useful information about themselves. |
KOMPAS-3D supports modern design methods, top-down and bottom-up.
An extensive database of fasteners and materials allows you to use these parts in models, drawings, and specifications.
Parametric modeling gives you the ability consider multiple design options for one product. Once you set up the model with variables, its geometry is changed easily, arriving at configurations that contain different combinations of different geometry.
KOMPAS-3D quickly identifies possible collisions between parts by locating, for example, places where components, even the smallest ones, intersect. As well, it finds inconsistencies between threaded connections, and all gaps smaller than a value that you specify.
You can place PMI tags in models, which contain all of the information necessary for the manufacture of products.
KOMPAS-3D provides a number of engineering calculators:
- Positions of centers of gravity, and inertial properties
- Dimensions of chains
- Sizes of springs and mechanical gears
- Strength analyses
- Liquid and gas flow analyses
- Thermal conductivity analyses
Additional applications help you to solve problems specific to electrical engineering, electronics, mechanics, and equipment.
Given the variety of design systems on the market, KOMPAS-3D allows you to work with data from other CAD systems documents.
KOMPAS-3D is convenient for generating many types of documentation, such as drawings, specifications, and diagrams.
You can prepare drawings without a model by selecting a pre-set document style or else by creating your own style.
Drawings associated with 3D models are the fastest way to obtain 2D product drawings, along with all required views and projections. After you change geometry in the model, the associated drawings and their dimensions are rebuilt automatically. When working with assemblies, you can place position symbols and specifications in drawings semi-automatically.
To make KOMPAS-3D easier to use, you can customize its interface by create your own toolbars and context-sensitive panels. This way, the functions you use the most are always at hand. Shortcut hotkeys can be configured for any command. The built-in command name search is useful to both experienced and novice KOMPAS-3D users.
Contains
KOMPAS-Graphic
Supported languages
english
russian
System Requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | For large assemblies | |
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| OS | Windows 10 х64 | ||
| Processor, GHz | OSmin | ≥3 | ≥4 |
| RAM, GB | OSmin | ≥32 | ≥64 |
| Graphics card | OpenGL 2.0 | OpenGL 4.5, 80 GB/s | OpenGL 4.5, 140 GB/s |
| VRAM, GB | OSmin | ≥4 | ≥8 |
| Additionally | Display HD | Display FullHD | Display FullHD, SSD |
Producer
ASCON
Documents & Instructions
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Animation
The Animation add-in performs motion simulation of 3D products developed with KOMPAS-3D. The add-in simulates real-world motions of products and their component parts, and then records them as video recordings in AVI format.
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Cable 3D
Design System "Cables and Harnesses" is a specialized Add-on for electrical cables and harnesses modelling in KOMPAS-3D.
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Dimensional Chain Calculator Add-in
The Dimensional Chains Calculation Add-On calculates dimension chains, and finds the right value of closing segments using a variety of calculation methods.
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Materials Library
Material library is database of information about materials that are used to manufacture products. Materials Library applies physical and mechanical material properties to 3D models designed in KOMPAS-3D.
An object of this Materials library is a material, shape, processing, document that defines requirements to an object or its properties, assortment, assortment example.
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Pipelines 3D
Pipelines 3D is a specialized application for KOMPAS-3D software; it is intended for automation of routine works on pipelines design.
The library is intended for using in the machine building area and for designing utility networks.
The application can use components manually created by user and components from Standardized Parts catalogues as standard pipeline’s components.
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Standard Parts Catalogue
Standard Parts library contains standard parts according to DIN and ISO standards.
The catalogue contains 3D models and 2D drawings of standard parts and structural elements both for KOMPAS-3D and KOMPAS-Graphic.
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APM FEM
APM FEM is a strength analysis module designed to work with the CAD software system KOMPAS-3D.
The main goal of the module is to help engineer to make reasonable design decisions using 3D models calculations. This undoubtedly improves the quality and saves time spent on product development, and therefore makes it competitive!
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eCAD KOMPAS-3D converter
The 3D circuit board model converter is a specialized module used to import a 3D circuit board model, designed in systems like P-CAD and Altium Designer (also named Protel in the past). The converter can read the standardized data exchange IDF format in KOMPAS-3D. The converter works with IDF-files exported from P-CAD (v. 2000-2006), OrCAD (v. 9.X), and Altium Designer.
Once imported into KOMPAS-3D, the 3D models of printed circuit boards are then used to arrange other devices, blocks, equipment modules, and so on.
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KompasFlow
The KompasFlow application is a KOMPAS-3D integrated tool for rapid testing of the aerohydrodynamics of a design device.
KompasFlow has a simple interface for rapid testing of a device in early design stages and makes it possible to make a primary assessment of the impact of modifications of device geometry on its effectiveness.
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Unwrap Application
The application is intended to automate the design of dust, gas and air flues, pipelines and similar parts of sheet material. This add-on automates labour-consuming calculations and constructions and considerably accelerates the speed of creation of working drawing for blanks of such parts.
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Ventilation systems
The application "Ventilation systems" is a ventilation design application for KOMPAS-3D. The application helps to build branched three-dimensional models of elements of ventilation systems (ducts).