Anark Interactive PMI Pro
Anark Interactive PMI Pro is a plug-in for Adobe® Acrobat® Pro Extended and Adobe® LiveCycle® that enables clear communication of original design intent between internal and external stakeholders across the extended enterprise.
Industry Problem
Although the manufacturing industry has largely benefitted from adopting 3D CAD across the enterprise, nearly all manufacturers still rely on 2D drawings to communicate design intent, manufacturing and inspection information, and other important data. Unfortunately, creating 2D drawings to communicate this essential information requires additional effort and cost, and can lead to discrepancies between the 3D CAD model and derivative 2D drawing.
Solution: Anark Interactive PMI Pro
Anark Interactive PMI Pro adds new model and PMI interrogation capabilities to 3D PDF documents that contain geometric dimensions, manufacturing tolerances, and other 3D annotations. By adding advanced model interrogation capabilities to new and existing 3D PDFs, Anark Interactive PMI Pro enables clear communication of original design intent between internal and external stakeholders across the extended manufacturing enterprise. Once the 3D PDF is processed and enhanced, the PMI data may be interrogated on any version of Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended with or without the Anark plug-in.
Leveraging the broad popularity of Adobe's PDF platform and near universal availability of 3D viewing products like the free Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, Anark is enabling the "final phase" of the 3D CAD revolution with cost-effective solutions to efficiently create, author, and publish manufacture-quality 3D PDF's with relevant product manufacturing information, dimensions, tolerances, and other annotations. Anark is also working with other vendors to automatically analyze and validate derivative 3D CAD geometry, and can provide audit trails at critical steps in a manufacturing workflow. Unlike other solutions available, Anark's MBD (Model Based Definition) and PMI solutions do not require downstream consumers of this data to purchase expensive CAD software or download proprietary viewers to view and interact with product manufacturing information.
Benefits
- Native, Adobe 3D PDF publishing with B-rep or mesh models
- Native, Siemens JT, CATIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER import of geometry and MBD, plus other 3D CAD formats
- PDM/PLM Data Connectors that allow users to transform CAD files directly from systems like Teamcenter, Windchill, Enovia, and SolidWorks PDM
- Create and save MBD-style view states
- Create text annotations on faces, parts, and assemblies
- Advanced batch automation allowing recursive file-based and part-based processing
- Search complex assemblies for components, instances, or associated CAD attributes
- Export XML documents containing product hierarchy, CAD attributes and product manufacturing data
Filter Complex CAD and MBD with Anark Core
As manufactured goods have become more complicated, the 3D CAD models, workflows, and processes required to produce these goods have become heavy, complex, and difficult to manipulate and understand.
Anark customers in aerospace, defense, heavy industry, and energy have discovered that the Anark Core Platform is the most cost-effective solution for quickly and easily removing unnecessarily confusing and/or proprietary information from complex CAD assemblies. With equally powerful tools for simplifying MBD (Model Based Definition) data, Anark is delivering the ability to selectively highlight and communicate key manufacturing information like critical dimensions, tolerances, and other important manufacturing information.
Combining Anark Core simplification capabilities with Anark Interactive PMI Pro provides the first realistic solution for drastically reducing (and in some cases eliminating) the dependency on 2D drawings as a means for communicating design and manufacturing intent between internal and external stakeholders.
