KPP-Wrapping™ - Swept Volume Generation

KPP-Wrapping™ is a Kineo Path Planner™ module for quickly wrapping objects and swept volumes. Kineo CAM developed this module based on KWS-Wrapping™, their Swept Volume and Wrapping library, which is also available for dedicated integration.

• Compute a file representing the volume envelope of the object during its motion along its trajectory (swept volume)

Benefit: While studying the accessibility of a component of an assembly, once a collision-free path has been found, a user can get directly the equivalent collision-free swept volume as a result of his study to preserve a corridor of mounting or dismounting from any intrusive design.

•  Compute a light solid representing the skin of the assembly

Benefit: Sometimes for confidentiality issues or for simplification purposes, Designer may wish to replace the complete 3D assembly of parts by a light sized volume corresponding to its external shape

Computing a Collision-free Extraction Path with Kineo Path Planner™

Thanks to the “Automatic Path Planning” feature of Kineo Path Planner™, the extraction path (Image 1) is generated automatically in just a few seconds.

Image 1: Extraction Path

Creating a Swept Volume with KPP-Wrapping™

Then we generate a swept volume of the computed extraction path.

Once the wrapping process is completed on the wiper extraction path, the result is a new solid representing the envelope of the volume taken by the wiper along its removal trajectory.

Image 2: Wrapping result

Simplifying the Swept Volume

The simplification process allows the user to reduce the number of triangles in a model. The process can be applied to any model, but is especially useful when used on the output of the wrapping function, which creates a large number of triangles even on perfectly flat surfaces.
 

Despite the many triangles that were deleted, the form is preserved between the original and the simplified swept volume versions (Image 3).

Image 3: Original vs. Simplified Swept Volume of the Extraction Path

For further information, download KPP-Wrapping™ brochure or Contact Kineo CAM : contact@kineocam.com, Tel. +33 561 00 90 60