VARKON
VARKON is a high
level development tool for applications in the area of
Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modelling.
VARKON can be used as a traditional CAD-system with drafting,
modelling and
visualisation if you want to but the real power of VARKON is in
parametric modelling and CAD applications development.
The software includes interactive parametric modelling in 2D
or 3D but also the unique MBS
programming language integrated in the graphical environment.
Features include:
- Ideally suited for all types of variational design. Wooden
houses, tools for ballbearings, welded steel
parts or electrical installations are some of the products currently
designed in VARKON using this technique.
- 2D drafting
- 2D and 3D modeling
- Sculptured surface modeling
- Powerful
geometric modeller.
Basic 3D entities are points, lines, arcs, curves, surfaces, coordinate
systems and transformations. Several representations of parametric
curves are implemented including rational polynomial, analytical offset
and curves on surfaces so called UV-curves. Surface representations
include rational polynomial, lofted procedural, analytical offset and a
faceted surface for approximations
- Basic support for trimmed surfaces. Operations
include
intersects, closest point, silhouette, curvatures, transformation,
trimming,
export, import and approximation. Basic visualization as well as
complex rendering based on OpenGL is included in all versions of the
system
- Animations
- 7 Datatypes including string, ref and vector
- Flow control like if, for and goto
- File I/O
- Standard library with 350+ functions and procedures
- Geometric modeling
- Product modeling (structures, relations and attributes)
- Object oriented database storage and retrieval
- Graphics output and viewing
- Import / Export: DXF, IGES, STL and PLT formats
- Easy to integrate. A VARKON
application can communicate using files or pipes and can spawn other
processes as well as being spawned itself
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