IPA creates interactive animations of product designs directly from 3D CAD solid modelers. By using the CAD data to generate animations, this allows product designs to be visualized before the physical prototype stage.
These animations help
- communicate design intent
- assembly/disassembly methods
- repair instructions and service information to the shop floor
- remote field locations and even customers
Once an animation is created, an interactive web page can be published quickly and easily with the help of the IPA Web Publishing Wizard. The IPA user controls access to this web page by specifying the page location, either behind the company firewall or on a public site. The web page communicates product information such as bill-of-materials, assembly sequences, disassembly instructions, even links to other web sites, to downstream 'product information consumers'.
IPA Product Features
Animation
- Photo-realistic output
- Interactive animation controller
- Definable start and end frames
- Insert sub-animations
- Dynamic collision detection
- Multiple compression algorithms
Web page Publishing
- Publish product designs directly to the web in dynamic HTML
- Multiple ready to use web page styles
- Hyperlinks to websites, applications, and files
- IPA WebView plug-in for Internet Explorer
- Automatically generate assembly, maintenance, or repair process information
Assembly Creation
- Hierarchical tree for assembly representation
- Drag & drop assembly hierarchy
- Insert assemblies and parts
- Create basic geometry
Ease of Use
- Wizards to simplify linkage, path and webpage creation
- Automatic update of assembly or part from supported CAD systems
- Dynamic zoom
- Fast assembly dynamics mode
- User preferences
- Changing level of detail for high performance object manipulation
- Unlimited undo/redo of all IPA operations
- Large reduction in memory usage for improved handling of very large assemblies
- Object annotations and callout highlighting
References
IPA is in use at more than 1200 customer sites in 22 countries worldwide.
Customers range from fitness product and consumer product manufacturers to underground mining equipment and diesel engine providers.
Representative customers include: Ford Motor, 3M, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, EDS, Eaton Corporation, John Deere, Gillette, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Motorola Corporation, and NASA.
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