Vortex Studio Create

What is Vortex Studio Create?

Vortex Studio by CM Labs simulations are simulation and visualization software for modeling that is informed at the system level of the mechatronics workplace and mechanical equipment. This interactive multi-body dynamics platform brings equipment design ideas to life through high-fidelity real-time simulation.

As the complexity of the mechatronic product and the sophistication of the control system increase, predicting behavior at the system level is more challenging. Product success increasingly depends on innovation and a multidisciplinary approach to systems engineering is more critical than ever. Performing simulations and informed testing at the system level at the beginning of the design stage is essential to enable creativity throughout the organization and put the user at the center of the engineering process.

Vortex Studio is a robust platform for creating interactive virtual prototypes, allowing teams to refine product functionality with hardware and driver testing in the "intelligent" control systems circuit.

By enabling engineers, product managers, and product stakeholders to evaluate design ideas and participate in immersive experiences in 3D products, Vortex Studio reduces the development cycle and encourages innovation with tools to help support integration and distributed visualization.

Vortex Studio lets you reproduce working conditions and confirm your product's ability to complete critical goals long before deployment. You can create complex workplaces and environments - simulating interactions between it and your virtual prototype - allowing you to identify operational issues early in the design process.

Key features and benefits

Create real-time simulations

Model, simulate, and visualize on the desktop with VR or quickly deploy to immersive hardware simulators in the loop.

Quickly create equipment simulation models from the 3D model geometry and place the equipment in realistic scenarios to test product performance. Engineers can view and test the operation of the equipment interactively in the virtual workplace.

Prepare visually stunning immersive environments and machine simulations using 3D artist models from art applications. Create realistic workplaces from terrain models and scene-level objects, including buildings, vegetation, and humans.

Easily extend Vortex Studio through a simple plug-in architecture and the C++ API to integrate software and hardware into the loop. Use embedded Python to integrate control logic or interface with external simulation applications through network plugins. Easily extend and integrate Vortex Studio with any software and hardware solution to meet the unique needs of your project.

Simulate mechatronic systems

Simulate the most complex land and sea equipment in real time with professional engineering tools for multi-body dynamics and physics-based contacts. Vortex Studio is validated and built on over 20 years of research and development in multibody dynamics and contact modeling. Dedicated modules for vehicles, earthmoving equipment, lifting systems and marine vessels make modeling quick and easy.

• Vehicles: Model any wheeled or tracked vehicle, including modeling of individual components, including power train, tire-ground interaction, steering, suspension, and brakes.
• Cable systems: simulate cables under tension and loose cables, such as ties. Model cable systems, pulleys, blocks, and other features to create complex lifting systems. Simulate trailer, anchor handling and other cable uses in industrial and marine applications.
• Earthmoving works: simulate earthmoving equipment with real-time soil mechanics and excavation models that use the most advanced DEM and particle physics models to model excavation, filling, dumping, erosion and soil compaction.
• Hydrodynamics: Combine ocean visualization and wave models with the simulation of hull buoyancy, drag, elevation, and added mass effects. Simulate vessels, amphibious and submersible vehicles.

Advanced Immersive Visualization

Create stunning immersive visuals with gpu-accelerated rendering based on cutting-edge shader on desktop systems, head-mounted VR monitors, or synchronized multichannel visual systems. Vortex Studio provides the tools to create realistic scenes with 3D visuals and advanced real-time rendering – including shadows, skydome, weather, trees, and water to enhance the user experience.

The visual mechanism can also be used to simulate optical sensors such as cameras, fused rays and depth sensors, or expand its capabilities and technology with tools to model advanced technologies - such as LiDAR or sonar.

Deploy driver simulators in the loop

Take advantage of a robust software stack, including core Vortex Studio applications, distributed computing framework, cross-platform libraries, and built-in Python. Vortex Studio covers the entire simulator deployment process, eliminating the need to maintain different technology integrations and allowing you to focus on your core specialties. This centralization of the workflow saves the time and considerable resources required to create simulators. It provides direct interfaces for motion and audio systems, as well as controlling hardware through CAN, OPC and others.

A simple workflow allows you to configure and distribute simulation and visualization to networkplayer applications and eliminates the need for coding. Tools are available to quickly debug and optimize simulations, manage scenes and participants, and play simulations.

Industrial Applications

Heavy industry and off-road: The move towards autonomous mobility and control means that off-road equipment has become more complex. This means that these machines require more resources, such as software, sensors, and driver assistance systems. The man-machine experience is also changing and this affects the way products are sold, operated and maintained. From the engineer's desktop to immersive LIS simulators, Vortex Studio allows engineers to simulate and visualize equipment operation in real time.

Maritime: Offshore companies face an unstable energy scenario and the need to operate in increasingly challenging conditions, with greater efficiency. This change requires a continuous flow of innovative design. With high-fidelity dynamics, cable systems and ocean modeling, Vortex Studio enables naval engineers to integrate real-time engineering models, advanced visualization and simulation to solve the challenges of designing and creating equipment for offshore and submarine operations.

Ground transportation: Vortex Studio can be used for modeling large equipment (trucks, warehouse, material handling) and robotics applications such as last-mile delivery robots. It is effective for the design and testing of mechatronic equipment and autonomous systems.

Defense: Vortex Studio is a COTS real-time simulation platform that provides high-fidelity modeling for military training applications, including land vehicles, heavy equipment, and marine operations. It is an efficient tool for quickly creating, testing and validating simulation content and is simple to integrate into existing simulator frameworks or game engines for training applications.

Mobile robotics: Mobile robotics apps in traditional industrial apps - as well as newer apps such as home care, security and last-mile delivery - are the ideal targets for Vortex Studio. Simulation of mobile and task-based robotic systems allows engineers to develop control algorithms with performance almost identical to real hardware.

Aerospace: Vortex Studio has robotics applications for the space industry and major space agencies are using it for the development of space-based robotics and planetary rovers. It is an ideal tool for testing design concepts as well as conducting mobility and access studies. Vortex Studio has also been deployed in high-fidelity simulators in real time to train astronauts and robotics operators with remote control.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768