Meet 3D MachineBuilder, a Web-Based Platform for Speeding Custom Machine Design
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www.diecastingpartsupplier.com
2018-08-24 18:08:57
In the past, building a custom machine could be a persnickety chore rife with irritating obstacles. With a gap—sometimes a yawning gap—between hardware and software, engineers spent a lot of time comparing the specs of different manufacturers by hopping between their websites and hoping various parts would be compatible. Canadian company Vention is offering a solution in 3D MachineBuilder. This cloud-based design and build system brings hardware and software together into the same digital workflow, potentially speeding the development time of custom industrial equipment and prototyping by five times over.
The company’s public assembly library offers hundreds of open-source designs created by the company’s engineering team as well as current users. According to CEO and founder Etienne Lacroix, Vention is different because it’s the first digital manufacturing platform dedicated to machine design.
“Industrial equipment is still being designed and manufactured like it was 20 years ago, relying on a highly fragmented ecosystem of regional industrial distributors, engineering integrators, local machine shops, and desktop-based CAD,” Lacroix told Design News. “We condense this arduous process by combining a cloud-based CAD software and modular component library, allowing users to design, order, and assemble custom industrial equipment directly from a web browser in just a few days.”