ARTIST STUDIO software

ARTIST STUDIO is the perfect tool for your digital product development and robot offline programming. The software creates an optimized patch laminate and generates the corresponding machine data for the SAMBA systems. ARTIST STUDIO combines multiple, perfectly aligned modules and plug-ins for your product and process development.

Advantages

• Stand-alone CAD-CAM software with plug-in for commercial FEA-software
• Fast and continuous process from CAD to machine data on a single platform
• Easy use of the software through intuitive application and interface logic
• Import of all common CAD file formats

PATCH ARTIST (CAD for FPP) 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

• High performance laminates & reinforcements with direction-variable fiber orientation
• Excellent mechanical properties through an integrated algorithm for optimizing patch overlaps
• Optional, simple manual laminate modification by intuitive user interface logic

MOTION ARTIST (CAM for FPP) 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

• Fast creation of machine data through offline robot programming
• Efficient manufacturing process through optimized movement of robot axes
• Reduction of production preparation time through integrated process simulation
• Increase of production safety with integrated collision detection

TAPE ARTIST (CAD for AFP) provides all functions for efficient laminate design for AFP processes. Laminate planning for AFP can also be combined with FPP to create hybrid AFP-FPP laminates. Seamlessly integrated into the software platform.

Advantages for fast laminate generation

• Generate AFP multiaxial laminates
• Create AFP-FPP laminates in combination with PATCH ARTIST functionalities
• Reduce scrap with different lay-up strategies

TAPE ARTIST (CAM for AFP) enables you to program offline the robot in a fully automated way. With that the production preparation time is significantly reduced and the integrated collision detection as well as the process simulation also increase the safety on your shop floor.

Advantages for robot programming and production preparation

• Fast creation of machine data through offline robot programming
• Efficient manufacturing process through optimized movement of robot axes
• Reduction of production preparation time through integrated process simulation
• Increase of production safety with integrated collision detection

ARTIST STUDIO plug-in for FEA-Software 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

• Fast modeling and evaluation of patch laminates
• Different analysis types supported by automated modeling approaches
• Improvement of the out-of-plane deformation behavior using thick shell elements