Digital Mockup
Lightning-fast digital mockup with clash detection – even for very large structures
A Digital Mock-Up (DMU) is a concept and method in Product Lifecycle Management that uses digital 3D models of a product to analyse and validate its design, functionality and assembly virtually – already in the early development phase, without physical prototypes.
Purpose and benefits of DMU
- Virtual assembly check – do parts fit together correctly (“fitting checks”)
- Clash detection – identifying potential collisions
- Motion simulations – studying motion sequences and mechanisms
- Dimensional and tolerance analysis
- Time and cost savings through fewer physical prototypes
- Interdisciplinary collaboration between design, manufacturing, service and marketing
FastDMU by valexcon
Our solution enables lightning-fast visualisation and navigation through complex product structures – even for models with thousands of parts. A powerful toolset for extracting, filtering, analysing and preparing CAD data provides exactly the information the user really needs. Whether to prepare design reviews, for engineering or in change management: FastDMU brings clarity – right where it’s needed.
- Lightning-fast loading of even extensive models
- Intuitive navigation in the context of the selected configuration
- Collision analysis directly in the 3D view
- Support for design reviews
Processing and visualisation
FastDMU enables powerful data processing as well as the loading and visualisation of very large assemblies consisting of several thousand to millions of individual parts – for example a complete vehicle, a passenger aircraft, an entire production hall or even a cruise ship, including all meta and geometry data. Loading in different configurations is also possible, e.g. displaying left-hand and right-hand drive simultaneously.
Filtering and navigation
FastDMU offers easy navigation and interaction with large product structures. Metadata can be displayed in various views: TreeView, ListView, PropertiesView and BomView. Geometry contexts in CATIA are efficiently managed and visualised – through data caching, an instance-reference model or selectable levels of detail. Search functions such as spatial or proximity search are precise, and can be combined with automatic setting of visual properties (colour, transparency, visibility). Functional data filtering takes place via the product configuration, e.g. through config handlers or milestones.
Geometric validation
For geometric validation, FastDMU provides automatic clash calculation (contact, penetration, minimum distances, single and multiple clashes) – for fully configured as well as unconfigured products. Identified clashes are managed in a dedicated database and displayed in CATIA via ClashViews and the customer system (classification). Integration into CATIA enables combined work with visualisation and native data – true “design in context”.
Data security
Your product data is safe in FastDMU: data processing, transfer and management secured to the latest standards through measures (ISSO) such as HTTPS, data encryption and authentication via smart card.
Sounds like a fit for your project?
We’re happy to advise you – including for an existing installation.