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A digital approach to conformal cooling
The only limit is your imagination
Lieve Boeykens - Product manager 3-matic
Digital signalDigital signal
Traditional CADTraditional CAD Digital CADDigital CAD
Analogue signalAnalogue signal
Analogy between the worlds of electronics and CAD
Traditional vs. Digital CAD
SurfacesSurfaces
Many entitiesMany entities
Continuous descriptionContinuous description
AnalogueAnalogue
Points / Points / voxelsvoxels
1 entity1 entity
Discrete descriptionDiscrete description
DigitalDigital
Examples of Digital CAD
Simple entities (triangles) alloweasier storage and calculationsprocessing and manipulation of complex geometriesdesign automation huge reduction of time and errors during design
– examples:
Automatic support generationAutomatic support generation
Automatic tool designAutomatic tool design
Automatic drill guide generationAutomatic drill guide generation
Digital Design for conformal cooling
Advantages3-matic can draw cooling channels
At a fixed distance of the surfaceIn 15 minutesAny freeform shapes but in an ‘engineered’ way
Designing principles
The cavities are hollowed to generate a surface with a fixed distance of the surface
The centerlines will be positioned on this surfaceA circular sweep generates the cooling channel
Improvements for the future
Variable distance to the surface to give more support to hot spot – based on user input or analysis
More tools to create curves
Macro’s