Collision checking, also known as clash detection, is an indispensable part of modern product development. It ensures that components or component groups of a digital prototype fit together seamlessly, without unwanted collisions or overlaps. By using specialised software and powerful algorithms, potential geometric problems are detected and rectified at an early stage - a decisive advantage for ensuring product quality and avoiding costly errors.
Improve the Quality of Virtual Prototypes, Reduce Development Costs
The integration of Clash Detection enables efficient process optimisation by ensuring that products are delivered on time and within budget. This integration into existing development processes can be achieved in various ways. Firstly, it is important to educate the relevant teams and employees about the importance and operational added value. Then, specific process steps should be defined to integrate the collision checks into the development workflow, such as defining test times during development or defining the tasks in the team. Finally, it is important to implement a suitable software solution such as Quality Monitor.
Collision checks are already established in various industries such as automotive or aerospace: their purpose is always to uncover undetected collisions or bottlenecks so that the product fits together flawlessly in the end and necessary functional clearances, e.g. for heat transfer or movements, do not lead to problems during operation.
Calculate Collisions, Avoid Geometric Conflicts
Technological expertise meets practical experience: invenio Virtual Technologies (invenio VT) ensures conflict-free digital prototypes with its solutions in the field of collision testing and clash detection. All interfaces (contacts, overlaps or distance violations) between the components are analysed and examined for problems. In addition to static clash detection, invenio VT also offers dynamic clash detection to quickly and reliably detect conflicts during movement. In both use cases, the focus is on analysing 3D data and large volumes of data (big data).
The leading algorithms for clash detection from invenio VT are always combined with technical system support, such as Quality Monitor. The neighbourhood search determines all neighbouring components and identifies which component has a relationship with another component. Inheritance ensures that relations that have been evaluated once are not presented again unless they change.
The experts analyse the calculation results and decide together with the responsible designers on the customer side how the geometric conflicts can be resolved. The end result is a collision-free product, clearances are maintained and the current maturity level of the product is correctly displayed on a daily basis. Invenio VT's own artificial intelligence provides the decisive added value.
