Compare MapleSim vs. smartAR

MapleSim serves as a sophisticated modeling solution that spans from the use of digital twins for virtual commissioning to creating system-level models for intricate engineering design endeavors, enabling significant reductions in development time and costs while effectively addressing real-world performance challenges. By enhancing control code rather than relying on hardware modifications, you can eliminate vibrations and pinpoint the underlying causes of performance issues through in-depth simulation insights. This powerful tool allows for the validation of design performance prior to moving on to physical prototypes. Leveraging cutting-edge methods, MapleSim not only drastically shortens model development time but also enhances understanding of system behavior and facilitates rapid, high-fidelity simulations. As your simulation requirements evolve, you can easily scale and connect your models. With its adaptable modeling language, you can extend your designs further by integrating components across various domains within a virtual prototype, tackling even the most difficult machine performance challenges with confidence. Overall, MapleSim empowers engineers to innovate with efficiency and precision, ensuring that their designs meet the rigorous demands of modern engineering projects.

Designed for organizations that create extensive and intricate prototypes, the aim is to minimize the variety of prototype iterations produced. smartAR™ superimposes a digital counterpart onto a live camera view of a tangible object, ensuring that the CAD model’s scale, placement, and orientation align with the physical item. Users view the digital twin through a tablet, which is closely monitored by an external motion tracking system that observes both its position and orientation. This tracking facilitates remarkable precision when aligning the digital twin with the physical object. As users navigate around the real-world item, the virtual images displayed on the tablet stay consistently fixed in relation to the object. Furthermore, virtual data can be accurately positioned on the real-world object, achieving a precision of better than 3 millimeters in most stationary perspectives. The TGX software from Mechdyne allows for seamless access to high-resolution CAD files from centralized workstations or servers, effectively reducing latency on the tablet, thus enhancing the user experience. This combination of technologies not only streamlines the prototyping process but also ensures that users can interact with their designs in a more effective and realistic manner.