MARLBOROUGH, Mass.— Kubotek Kosmos today announced the 6.1 Service Pack release of the Kubotek Kosmos MBD/CAD Utility software products (Validate, Revision, and View/Convert). The release is available for download by current license holders, and provides users with updated file translators for several CAD platforms several as well as fixes based on user feedback.
The 6.1 releases of all Kubotek Kosmos MBD utility programs include added support for solid and surface data from several prominent CAD formats:
Additionally, the View product added ability to read drawings from the Siemens NX 2D 2312 Series. This adds to an extensive library of native 2D formats that Kubotek Kosmos View is capable of reading.
For the 6.1 release, the part tree in the Validate program has been enhanced with a mass properties node for each part. This area of the tree includes Surface Area, Volume, and Center of Mass information as calculated by the Kubotek Kosmos geometry kernel.
The source of this data is important to note because in some companies/standards Mass Properties data are published into the CAD file metadata or a special validation section. These published values can be used to help validate that the bodies are the same between programs — especially when the compare is done without a kernel. All geometric modeling kernels are able to calculate these properties to a high level of precision from precise boundary representation models (solids and surfaces). However, due to variations in algorithms between systems and processor rounding differences, some variation in the values is normal.
Not all manufacturing and inspection software which are reading CAD part data have mass properties calculation commands and/or the ability to write that information to derivative files. For this reason, Kubotek Kosmos Validate continues to rely on its sophisticated face-by-face geometry comparison and universal database as the primary method for testing the integrity of models between two CAD files.
For 6.1 all Mass Properties values shown in Validate are non-translated and from the same source. For that reason they are not included in the comparison and are included in the report for informational purposes only. Future versions of Kubotek Kosmos Validate will likely add options in the area of Mass Properties to help support the subset of customers using published mass properties data as part of their CAD translation validation process.
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