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Achieve better design collaboration capability for IP-protected CAD geometry with Anark’s CAD transformation system

Anark Corporation has launched the Anark Core Platform, an innovative software platform for the rapid transformation and distribution of use-appropriate CAD data throughout the enterprise supply chain and support organisations. Unlike traditional CAD authoring tools and translation products, Core’s sophisticated automation system empowers users with a highly efficient, easily repeatable process for transforming and delivering IP-protected CAD geometry.

This is performed through Core’s ‘recipe’ based transformation process that allows users to reapply a set of user-defined transformation operations, thereby eliminating the need to manually rework product data as it evolves or as requirements change.

Anark Core’s advanced CAD transformation capabilities permit users to produce both high-precision (B-reps) and lightweight (mesh) product geometry for use in a variety of upstream and downstream applications including:.

* OEM-Supplier Data Exchange.

* Product Aftermarket Support.

* Technical Publications and Interactive Catalogs.

* Product Visualization and Training.

* Sales and Marketing Communication.

‘Repurposing our CAD geometry for use in real-time 3D training applications is very expensive and time consuming, and the risk of exposing our IP when sharing product design data is high,’ said John Reasoner, Principle Multimedia Engineer for simulation and Training Solutions at Rockwell Collins.

‘The Anark Core Platform solves both problems, enabling us to quickly transform our CAD data into the useful lightweight form we need, and making the removal of sensitive product design elements easy and straightforward’.

Anark Core Platform consists of two main components that can be configured to match organisational needs.

Anark Core Workstation is a powerful, easy-to-use authoring tool that allows users to cost-effectively produce transformed, use-appropriate CAD geometry for supply chain and support applications throughout the enterprise.

Serving as the foundation of the Anark Core Platform, Core Workstation provides users the ability to import CAD data, identify parts, instances, assemblies, and geometry features, and then modify or remove them as necessary.

Core Workstation supports common proprietary and open-standard CAD geometry formats, as well as lightweight geometry formats for downstream visual and 3D publishing applications.

Anark Core Server is a scalable server system for high volume, repeated applications.

It allows manufacturers to automate the cost-effective transformation and delivery of use-appropriate CAD geometry throughout the enterprise, supply chain and support organisations.

Core Server automates the transformation process based on ‘recipes’ created with Core Workstation and maintains coherency between managed CAD repositories - even under constant product geometry revision.

Core Server is designed to serve the needs of large manufacturing enterprises by providing a modern, service-oriented architecture (SOA) that allows straightforward integration with PDM, ERP, and other enterprise software systems.

‘Anark has spent years helping leading manufacturers repurpose their CAD data into appropriate forms for a wide array of business and visual applications,’ commented Scott Collins, Anark’s Senior Vice President of Product Development.

‘This in-depth experience with our customers’ needs, technical hurdles, and pain points helped us design and build a highly functional product line that makes transforming CAD geometry easy and economical’.

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