Although Aerosport Modeling & Design, Inc.’s product development, prototyping, and manufacturing services has deep roots in aviation, Aerosport has worked with thousands of satisfied clients in the automotive, medical, electronic, military, aviation, toy, and consumer products industries. The firm produces high-quality prototypes, appearance models, working models, and machined parts, and also serves as an extension to its clients’ design and engineering teams.
+ n8 i' a4 A: s0 S+ o5 e: l6 Y% V# oAerosport owner Geoff Coombs cities ongoing investments in research and the latest design, prototyping, and manufacturing technologies as critical to the company’s growth, competitiveness, and success. While Aerosport began as a prototype model shop working primarily in the custom model airplane industry, its business soon grew into design, prototyping, and manufacturing services for a range of other industries, operations for which it needed a robust 3D CAD solution.
6 \4 a) L5 W; {& v! N簡單介紹新西蘭Aerosport Aviation公司，多用途超短起降輕型飛機制造商，公司需要一個完全的3DCAD解決方案。
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- E2 ~4 G; r' n$ \When we started handling work that went far beyond model airplanes—such as medical devices and automotive fixtures—we needed to add an effective design and engineering capability,” Combs recalls. “I asked around and decided to evaluate the Pro/ENGINEER® and SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD packages. Once I started working with demo copies of the software, it became obvious that SOLIDWORKS had a better interface, was more intuitive, and was easier to use.
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2 r8 m4 F5 [" w* S- T# v“Acquiring SOLIDWORKS Professional design software turned out to be the right decision because more and more of our customers use SOLIDWORKS, which makes collaboration much more efficient,” Combs adds. “We recently added the SOLIDWORKS Composer™ package to automate the development of instruction manuals.”
. k1 I0 V- ]9 }8 i5 G6 ^顯然，購買solidworks專業(yè)設計軟件被證明是個正確的決定。最近公司又增加了solidworks composer用于改進產品說明書的策劃。
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While Aerosport realized significant productivity gains by implementing SOLIDWORKS design software, allowing the company to take advantage of a range of new business opportunities, there was one area of its traditional business that required an additional solution: providing upholstery services for aircraft and automotive seats, including both prototypes and final products.
8 @$ F( G8 G6 V5 l雖然Aerosport公司通過實施SOLIDWORKS設計軟件，使公司獲得了一系列新的商業(yè)機會的優(yōu)勢，顯著提高生產力，但其傳統(tǒng)業(yè)務有一個區(qū)域，需要一個額外的解決方案：飛機和汽車座椅內飾設計。
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& n' L4 k; @5 ?- h0 D“Once we began working on the interiors of cars and planes, we needed to upholster seats,” Combs explains. “Upholstering a seat began as a completely manual process for us. To create patterns, we would draw sew lines on the foam seat bun with black magic marker, pin a sheet of cotton over the bun under a piece of drafting mylar, and follow the black marker lines to notch the pattern, adding salvage before sewing it up on our sewing machine. That was a time-consuming process for which we needed a better solution.”2 B. T& Z6 K: \2 M9 h7 A; v
設計座椅內飾的過程
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Combs was researching upholstery-related applications when a supplier suggested the ExactFlat® Design Studio 3D-to-2D flattening application, for use on composites, industrial fabrics, leathers, and other types of technical textiles, from SOLIDWORKS Gold Solution Partner Tri-D Technologies, Inc., {1 [! C3 u2 _4 \. s7 j$ F7 [: g4 d
供應商建議使用ExactFlat® Design Studio的從3D到2D的展開應用，這個插件是solidworks的黃金合作伙伴。
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Using the combination of SOLIDWORKS and ExactFlat software, Aerosport has replaced its manual seat-pattern-making upholstery process with an automated digital approach. The process begins with scanning the seat foam bun, or acquiring a model of it from the manufacturer, to create a 3D solid model in SOLIDWORKS software. Combs then creates the pattern for the seat upholstery using Exact Flat from inside SOLIDWORKS software.
9 N) k/ b+ i/ e“The new digital approach is much better than doing it by hand,” Combs stresses. “Creating a seat pattern used to take a week or longer, depending on the complexity of the seat. With SOLIDWORKS and ExactFlat, we can finish a pattern in an hour. This solution is saving time and money, as well as enabling us to increase throughput.”2 h6 }4 t! X9 ?, [
這個插件實現了由手工勞動到數字自動化，通過solidworks和Exactfalt的結合，Aerosport公司已經用自動數字方法取代它的座椅手工制版內飾工藝。先是掃描座椅的泡沫塊，或者從制造商取得模型，然后用solidworks建模，最后用exactfalt插件得到座椅蒙皮的展開平面圖。
% n u0 r3 U. h+ B8 }7 ?2 d“新的數字方法比用手工做的要好得多“，以前要花費需要一周或更長的時間，這取決于座椅的復雜的座椅圖案。而使用SolidWorks和ExactFlat，我們可以在一個小時來完成。這個解決方案是節(jié)省時間和金錢，以及使我們能夠增加吞吐量。“
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Because SOLIDWORKS and Exact Flat automate the creation of upholstery patterns, Aerosport has cut its time-to-market by 50 percent and reduced upholstery production costs by 30 percent. The combined solution has also enabled the company to increase its seat pattern accuracy, resulting in material savings through ExactFlat nesting capabilities and an improved finish, particularly when working with the latest generation of seat designs.
& ~5 }0 i8 l) z+ O! M$ w+ d; Z5 \“With newer, more complex seats, we used to add a layer of foam along the sides to make the upholstery fit,” Combs notes. “SOLIDWORKS and ExactFlat have improved our pattern accuracy to the extent that we no longer have to add any foam. I’m amazed at how well our patterns now sew together. SOLIDWORKS and ExactFlat have really helped us to streamline the process.”0 x1 S `& M' u4 S; f& s
更快地將產品推向市場，提高質量，并降低成本
' `2 P9 F6 a* E* ? H由于SolidWorks和精確平自動創(chuàng)建的內飾格局，Aerosport削減它的時間到市場50％和30％降低室內裝潢的生產成本。該聯合解決方案還使該公司增加其座椅圖案精度，從而通過ExactFlat嵌套功能，節(jié)省材料和改進的完成，特別是設計最新一代的座椅時。' ^6 F9 A$ ]& S+ m5 x7 O) ~ A
SolidWorks和ExactFlat提高我們的模式精度，我們再也不用添加任何泡沫的程度。我很驚訝于我們現在的模式如何縫在一起。 SolidWorks和ExactFlat確實幫助我們簡化了這個過程。“+ D' J; t- s4 x6 T' M: X
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In addition to automating seat upholstery operations, the combination of SOLIDWORKS design and Exact Flat flattening solutions supports other projects requiring patterns or coatings. For example, Aerosport used the solution to develop the pattern for a de-icing sheet used to prevent ice buildup on high-flying drone aircraft.
+ s$ T; f: e( T, L6 V" j; J9 p“Using SOLIDWORKS and Exact Flat on the drone de-icing sheet project helped us enhance accuracy,” Combs points out. “Even though we mainly use the combined solution for seat upholstery, we expect it to come in handy for any designs that require a flat pattern, such as applying composite or fiberglass lay-ups in a model.”0 y M* Y8 G+ X1 ~/ X; M
除了自動座椅裝飾業(yè)務，SOLIDWORKS設計和精確扁變平的解決方案組合支持需要的圖案或涂層等項目。例如，Aerosport所用的溶液開發(fā)模式為用于防止冰堆積在高空飛行的無人駕駛飛機除冰片。: Z" O2 N6 h' A& [# H* r
“對無人機除冰板項目中使用SolidWorks和精確扁平幫助我們提高精度，”梳子指出。 “雖然我們主要使用的座椅裝飾的組合解決方案，我們希望它派上用場的要求展開模式的任何設計，如應用復合材料或玻璃纖維上籃中的典范。”
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