Getting started Webinar 101 - TruPlan 2018

the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen-only mode welcome everyone to true plan in an introductory series this is our webinar 101 the first of the series my name is Matt thorn I am the product manager for composite manufacturing at autodesk in this webinar today we will be going over some of the basic Autodesk account management including downloading the software installation licensing and customer support and then we'll jump into the software and we're going to be running through composite laser projection inside of true plan which would include importing an existing composite design verifying the material lamp and all the plies of the imported design exporting the laser data file to the laser projector and then we'll take some questions at the end if there's if there's any questions so to get started we're going to focus on the Autodesk account and the first thing that everyone needs to do is log into their account and to do that you need to sign in at manage a desk comm with your email or username all the following steps about the Autodesk account I have linked these this presentation into the getting started link that was sent out in the webinar invitation if you'd like to have access to these links and either follow along or or continue to do this after the webinar note that only the point of contact for the subscription purchase will have an Autodesk account already set up under the email that was given for the purchase of the software if you don't have an Autodesk account already feel to create one and follow the prompts on the screen at managed Autodesk comm if you have any trouble there's some prompts to help you if you forgot your password or any of the any basic problems that you may have signing into your account to download the software once you sign in you'll see a list of products under the products and services tab in your user account portal again only the point of contact will be able to see the true planned product as they were the one who purchased the product if you do not see the product the point of contact can add you as a viewer to that product so you can see it through your account so you want to scroll down to you see the planned product and click on the arrow left of the product name and that's going to drop down the summary of the product which is going to include the download to the software if you click on downloads for the 2018 version of true plan it will give you a few options you can install it now you can download it or you can do a full browser download and these are a couple different ways in order to download the software if you're unsure of which one to use in the getting started link to this presentation there's an explanation of what each download method means and which one is best for you once you install the software it'll ask you for a license so when you wanted to ask you for a license it's either going to ask you if you have a single user subscription whether you're a standalone user or whether you have a multi user subscription which is a network deployment you can just determine which type you have by looking at the licensing type under the true plan product in your manish autodesk.com account if you have a single user subscription what you would do is you would enter the serial number and product he's shown here on the webpage into the prompt and that would allow you to access your license at that time if you have a multi-user subscription there's a couple of other steps that you would need to do you need to install a product you need to install the license server software you need to generate a license file from this page as well and you would then need to configure the network license server with that file that you would generate from this account page all these instructions are linked in this document again that was provided in the invitation to the webinar so finally we'll go for some customer support customer support is accessed again through this managed autodesk comm account page you can click on the support i con next to your username and in the side of the dropdown there will be view my support cases this link will bring you to a page where you can access all of your support case existing support issues and create new ones the page looks something like this and you can create new support cases view existing ones and access any self-help resources like the Autodesk knowledge network so any forums or frequently asked questions about the software or the products if you have a problem with the point of contact being wrongly associated to your account if you need help downloading and installing the product if you have any if you need any help troubleshooting licensing issues please create a support ticket and someone will be able to help you so now will die into the composite laser projection inside of true plan and today our webinar is going to go through importing a CATIA v5 composite design inside of true plan and then working with that model in order to export a laser projection file in order to do that there is a prerequisite for that CATIA v5 composite design inside of CATIA we need to go to the insert drop-down the data export drop-down and the XML export drop-down and this will bring up a dialog that'll allow us to select the composite data that we want to export and choose either to export the 3d contours which is the 3d composite geometry the flatten contours which is the flat patterns for that composite design or both Autodesk true plan sits on top of the inventor Autodesk Inventor 3d solid modeling platform to get started we're going to open our CATIA v5 model inventor is built off of a any CAD platform which allows us to import various different file types including CATIA v4 tv5 DXF DWG and X Pro II SolidWorks step STL and other formats so here I will select my CATIA v5 file and click open if I'm importing a non-native inventor file it's going to ask me which geometries that I want to import in this case I'm going to import the solids surfaces meshes of the CATIA v5 model into inventor a very important thing to note is that I want the surfaces to be individual surfaces the other option composite here join surfaces together into a single entity which is not the appropriate option for true plan because we need the individual surfaces in case there was different layups that have multiple surfaces associated to them so once I have my settings I click okay and it's going to import my CATIA v5 file up top here we have the inventor ribbon and this is the inventor browser you can see my surface is here in the inventor browser it's called extrude one that was imported from the CATIA composite model once i've imported my CATIA v5 model i will go into the true plan add in and begin true plan and this is going to bring up my true plan browser and a list of tools in the true plan ribbon you can see here that my true plan browser is at this point empty so what we need to do is we need to insert the composite data from that XML file that we exported from CATIA in order to do that I click on insert composites and choose the XML file that I want to import and select open and this dialog is going to tell me which units that I'm currently using as well as if it finds the surface that the composite design was built on in CATIA v5 in this case since we imported the CATIA file first it found the surface so I don't have to do any more steps I also want to check this box which would then force the surface offsetting based on the thickness of the previous plies in my model so that I can have all the geometry and the core sampling that I need for my composite design so as I click okay it's going to import all of the stacking and all of the flattened contours from the CATIA v5 xml file you can see now that I have all the geometry for each fly the surface geometry for the manufacturing surface the rosettes that were used for the creation of this composite design and all the materials that were used in the material library for the composite design as well so as a first step after I import my composite design I want to verify that all my properties are correct so what I can do is I can open up the true plan material library which would give me the material properties that were imported for this material in this case the material type is unidirectional Kevlar and the uncured thickness warning and limit shearing angles were imported from the composite design if there was any issue I can change the material type where any of these values now that I've imported it into true plan additionally true plan needs a material packaging and the material packaging insider true plan dictates what manufacturing process and how the material is shipped to the facility so that we know what the raw width of the material is and I can add multiple packages of the same material based on the manufacturing process that I'm doing in this case I have a fabric packaging and a toe packaging but I also have tape packaging available as well so once I've five that my materials are okay I can click OK and close the dialog if I had any issue with my rosette I can open up the properties reassociate the origin of that rosette and any of the x y&z directions of the orientations for the composite stacking I have my layup which defines which workpiece or surface that I'm using for the creation of this composite design the laying direction for this composite design which is dictated by the arrow which tells me which way the thickness of the part is to be built and I can switch that back and forth depending on which way it should be and also the rosette associated for my composite design and a flattening plane to flatten any geometry that I've imported as well also important to note here is this check for the layup lets me dictate to update the surfaces based off of the cure thickness for the plies or the uncured thickness for the plies I can also verify the ply properties by opening up the the first ply here and see the boundary that that is associated for the ply the material that this ply is made of and the orientation of this plot I can also see the updated surface for this ply as well as the imported flatten pattern for the plot so after I verify that everything is okay with my importer I can begin my composite laser projection and composite laser projection is the process where the laser beam is projected onto a surface to display information that helps in processes like quality control assembly and placement of components paint masking and others but the typical application for composites is to place the individual plies or the flat patterns into a 3d mold so to do this true plan has a laser projection data output so if I click on that I get a list of parameters that shows me all the different things that I need for my laser projection output the first is the part name the part name automatically comes from the name of the composite design inside of the imported XML file if I'd like to change it I can make that manual edit here the next is the output filename which dictates the path of where I want to export this file the name of the file and the extension of the file type filetype supported our vertex LPT la p FL assembly guidance and the general DXF format so I can select the appropriate format for the laser projector that I'm exporting to via this output file type the active configuration is a new feature inside of Autodesk true plan for laser projection a configuration specifies the manufacturing strategies you'd like to group together a manufacturing strategy inside of true plan defines the manufacturing process for each ply and allows the user to analyze the manufacture ability of the ply by showing things like fiber daeviation fiber wrinkling gaps and overlaps and fiber steering the manufacturing strategy also allows the user to create a flat pattern from the 3d geometry multiple strategies can be added for each ply which means flaps patterns can be creative multiple flat patterns can be created for each ply and that's why we need the Manufacturing's to group the strategies together so when we export the flat patterns to for the laser projection true plan knows which flat patterns to export for each plot in the next we have the apply selection which allows the user to select or deselect plies to be exported by default all the plies that are added to the fly selection the offset mode dictates whether or not I want to use the surface offsets or the the thickness updates in my model to export the laser projection data the axis system tells the software which coordinate system to export the laser projection data into so if you click on the selection arrow and click on an axis system it will show you the Associated axis system that is selected the tolerance value here is the tolerance for any arcs and splines that make up the geometry that you have and the reason why we have this tolerance value is because laser projectors use lines to display the geometry so all the arcs and splines are approximated with line segments and this tolerance is the tolerance to that approximation this maximal length parameter dictates how close or far points are together in a straight line so that if a line is too long or too short you can control the amount of points that are inserted between the start and end of that geometry the include options here tell the laser projection export what geometry you're interested in and where to project things like the rosettes and nici points or C curves so if we preview our laser projection export here see that with the rosette option checked we have the rosettes projected at the axis system location and right now it's projecting the 3d geometry with the offset mode dictated by the thickness update surfaces if we were to turn that off we can preview it again and on the fly it's going to update and show us everything on that base surface I can also show the 2d preview which would then switch the laser projection to the flat pattern shown here so the seed point option when checked will display the rosettes instead of at the origin of the axis system selected at the manufacturing seed points inside of the true plan model and the c-curve when selected will show will project any seekers that were used in the manufacturing strategies for this model so after I have all my settings that I need I can select ok and that's going to export the file for me it's going to give me some information that it's writing out the correct laser projection data format I'm going to click OK so that was exported into my file and every time I export something from true plan it gives me a report telling me which information was exported so it really confirms the the part name the units which offset methods which tolerance settings that I used and the reason why I true plant has this report is this in the future if I want to recreate the data that I exported I know exactly what settings I used last time that I exported this geometry and next to the report I have that dot ply file ready for my laser projector so in those simple steps we imported a tv5 composite design we verified that our composite import was successful and we exported our laser projection settings for the dot ply file so at this point I am ready to go to the shop floor and start using the laser projector and placing these flies in the mold so a little bit about the future of true plan in the next release of true plan we're going to have some additions to the software and these additions include laser targets and drift checking checking so laser targets are important for the laser projector in order to calibrate the laser projector in 3d space so that it knows where to accurately project the data on the tool surface and the drift check is an option for supported laser projectors that have an automatic calibration option and it targets these specific targets for that automatic automatic calibration in case anything has bumped the tool or if there's any sway in the laser projection that would cause inaccuracies another feature is the creation of the laser projectors and the association of these laser targets to those laser projectors this way you can break up the different targets for each laser projector if you were to have multiple in on the shop floor extra geometry is a feature where that we can assign to apply sequences and lamps in order to allow things like 3d text laser parameters and just a extra geometry to be exported with the composite data as well to expand on the 3d text we have the ability to use parameters in our 3d text in order to get information like layup source file orientation material use and export these things during the composite layout so that the operators can see information when they're placing these materials you can also validate the laser parameters that you're using to make sure that the parameter that you use is a valid parameter and lastly we have our laser parameters and these are things like information graphics queries and all of these laser parameters are an additional feature that allows some extra quality control on the shop floor when using the laser projector so the next webinar in this series is going to be true playing webinar 1:02 and this webinar will be in June the content will cover advanced composite laser projection so we'll cover the extra geometry 3d text and laser parameters that we talked about briefly here the invite will be sent out in May so this month so check your email make sure you register for the webinar even if you cannot attend because the recording will be sent out to all registrants so even if you miss it you'll be able to see all the content and be up to date with the new features inside of true plan so they're open up for any questions there is a questions dialog in the webinar if you have a question or would like to see anything again please type your question in and I will answer it for you so we'll give you all a couple of minutes and if there are no questions and we will I will let you go so we have some questions coming in here the first question is you use CATIA v5 file for the composite design but what other software packages can be used instead of CATIA it's a good question so right now we support the the two major CATIA composite design of if you're familiar with CATIA composite workbench and fiber s'en which is now NX so in that any CAD import that I showed inside of inventor you have the option to import those file types you can also import other file types like solid where X Pro ye general data formats and then begin your composite design with the true plan tools that we have in the workbench so you can do things like create plies ply boundaries you can create surfaces and all these things that we imported from the CATIA file you can build those yourself from scratch inside of the true plan workspace if that if the modeling kernel that you have doesn't have composite design so another question here is can true plan laser projection project information not defined by the fly geometry for example tape or fiber paths good question so true plan since true plan is a package where we support multiple deposition processes meaning fabric deposition or hand layup AFP and ATL we can actually use the laser projection features in order to project the tape and toe boundaries for other processes like five replacement and tape line so got another question what is the difference and benefits between the embedded license of CATIA true laser and this true plan good question the difference of between them right now is the the couple of features that were pointed out in the end of the presentation that are going to be rolled out in the next release which is going to be at the end of this month so after that release there will be no differences between the existing true laser product embedded in CATIA and this product and true plan some of the benefits here are that you can now bring your manufacturing models instead of using CATIA manufacturing you can use true plan manufacturing in instead you can do this so that potentially you don't need that CATIA manufacturing any longer so it doesn't look like there's any more questions coming in so if you have any more questions it looks like we have one more so the question is is autodesk planning on developing other manufacturing enhancements to the engineering part like skin swapping and material accesses great question so true plan does so the skin swapping for those who are unaware is when you switch the engineering surface to a manufacturing surface to provide things like manufacturing extensions and things like that true plan because of the automatic update utility if you were to switch the surface defined in the layup inside our true plan it would automatically do a skin swapping within the with your geometry to that new surface things like material accesses they're going to actually be in a future release when we start having things like a parallel offsetting of curves and more advanced curve creation utilities right now is we have just very general curve creation utilities so you can reassociate curves that if you were to have those material excesses already defined what true plan wouldn't aid you today and offsetting those curves on that surface for you another question to plant those through plant support the step format true plan does support step files in the any CAD import inside of inventor so step is a general format so the data involved there can be defined in multiple ways so typically an import of a step file will just be the geometry where you would then use the troof line utilities to create things like plies sequences and layouts in another question what about adding manufacturing flies like adhesive tedlar that are not defined in the engineering model so in true plan you can add any additional layups apply sequences anything that you would need in the manufacturing data in order to have that manufacturing model up-to-date with with those extra applies for adhesive and deadlines another question how can I do laser simulation can it be done on this platform so Autodesk has another product called Autodesk true laser with which is an extension to the laser projection utilities inside our true plan which allows for the creation of your work cell and the simulation of your laser data the normal vectors any obstructions and laser flicker and the optimization of laser flicker so with that looks like there two questions so I appreciate everybody joining today and check your email for the next webinar when we go more into depth into composite laser projection again if you have any additional questions that didn't get answered today feel free to reach out to to me via email and I'd be happy to answer your questions thank you

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Length: 38min 35sec (2315 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 13 2017