ARTIST STUDIO software - Cevotec GmbH

ARTIST STUDIO – laminate design and robot programming software

Your engineering team requires digital tools that reduce the time for product development and integrate smoothly with production planning. ARTIST STUDIO is the perfect tool for digital product development and robot ofﬂine programming with Fiber Patch Placement. The software creates optimized patch laminates and generates the machine programs for the SAMBA systems.

Your advantages

Stand-alone CAD-CAM software with plug-in for commercial FEA-software
Intuitive application and interface logic
Import of all common CAD ﬁle formats

PATCH ARTIST (FPP-CAD)

MOTION ARTIST (FPP-CAM)

ARTIST STUDIO plugin for FE-software

ARTIST STUDIO CAD-FEM-CAM

PATCH ARTIST – laminate design (CAD) is the patch laminate design module. Its user interface is designed to easily define patch zones on imported CAD surfaces, as well as layer size, layer orientations, layer thickness, tape width and patch length.
The patch zone boundaries and layer orientations can be constructed as splines within a CAD-system and afterwards imported directly in PATCH ARTIST.

Advantages for fast laminate generation

Interface: Import of STEP, IGES, STL, CATPart; Laminate export for FE-modeling (STEP)
Laminate: Layer definition with specific material properties and constraints
Boundary: Different lay-up strategies at boundaries (reducing scrap, constant layer thickness)
Curve planning: Parallel curves based on user defined master curve; Curves along user-defined fiber orientation
Optimization: Patch overlap optimization
Visualization: Mold, laminate, SAMBA system, surface normals; Curves, curve orientation and curvature (in-plane, out-of-plane); Patches and patch normals; Individual patch overlap quality
Documentation: Browser-based documentation with tutorials

MOTION ARTIST – robot offline programming (CAM) enables you to program the SAMBA robots ofﬂine in a fully automated way. With that the preparation time for production is significantly shortened and the built-in collision detection as well as the visual process simulation also increase the safety on your shop ﬂoor.

Advantages for robot programming and production preparation

Robot kinematics: 4 and 6 axis robots, robot on linear axis; Robot-to-robot interaction logic
Tool kinematics: Robot-assisted, linear axis, rotational axis
Mold mount point: Coordinate-based position and orientation
Calibration: Robot to robot positioning, tool positioning
Robot movement: Point-to-Point (PTP), linear
Optimization: Robot movements with consideration of axis limits, robot range, singularities, collision detection using multicore processing
Visualization: Robot movements, collisions, laminate
Analyses: Material consumption, production time
Interface: Visualization and updates of changes in laminate design; Export of machine program
Documentation: Browser-based software documentation with tutorials

ARTIST STUDIO plug-in for FE-modeling (FEA) automatically generates a detailed FE-model of the patch laminate within the FE preprocessor HyperMesh™, based on the data defined in PATCH ARTIST regarding geometry, position and orientation of the patches. The contour of each individual patch is used to model fiber orientations and overlap areas.

Advantages for automated patch laminate modeling

Availability: FEA preprocessor HyperMesh Release-Version 2017 and up
Accessibility: Menu-bar with subsequent dialogue-based process
Interface: Import of laminate from ARTIST STUDIO platform
Properties: Automated modeling of patches, fiber orientation, thickness, patch overlaps; Different modeling methods (shell/solid) and strategies for patch laminates
Documentation: Browser-based software documentation with tutorials

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