CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 December 2008
Product News
Collision Detector “KCD™”, the Fastest Commercial Software Library on the Market?
Kineo CAM announced the release of its collision detector KCD 2.04.6 software library.
Kineo Collision Detector KCD™ is the high efficiency collision detector from Kineo CAM. It comes as a software library, which allows an easy integration through its C++ programming API; using 3D geometrical data, KCD™ compares two lists of geometrical objects and quickly returns a series of results such as interferences and distances.
In digital 3D mock-up, KCD™ performs static or dynamic clash analysis. For robotic monitoring, KCD™ provides continuous collision avoidance.
In May 2004 Kineo CAM announced its version V1.5 with a 50% improvement of performance in response time.
Consecutively several software editors like TECNOMATIX and UGS PLM (both now part of Siemens PLM), Seemage (now part of the brand 3DVia from Dassault Systèmes), DELMIA (another brand of Dassault Systèmes) adopted KCD™ in CAD/CAM software products for automatic path planning.
Earlier this year, CYBERNETIX integrated KCD™ into CyxPro® V2.0 its software platform for graphical monitoring of remotely-operated systems; “It was important for us to rely on a collision detector which is both fast and robust. We did a careful comparison of available options and selected KCD™” recently reported Eric Auschitzky, Nuclear BU Director.
ith KCD™ V2.04.6 Kineo CAM announces another breakthrough performance in collision detection by a mean improvement of 22% in response time or a memory consumption decrease of up to 90%.
Tests of performance show that KCD™ V2.04.6 can perform dynamic collision detections as fast as 0.8 milliseconds on large 3D models of more than 3 million polygons.
“With such performances, we expect that even users of very large 3D CAD models will experience for the first time, interactive collision and interference checking” says Laurent Maniscalco, Kineo CAM’s CEO. “The first commercial integration of KCD 2.04.6 for interactive and dynamic collision detections in digital mock-ups, DPA, will be based on Dassault Systèmes V5 PLM software platform”.
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