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3D software firm takes two awards

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 21, 2006

Double winner in the 18th Annual Resona Foundation Excellence in Technology Awards is recognised for compression format and 3D publishing, 3D data communications and sharing software.

Lattice Technology is a double winner in the 18th Annual Resona Foundation Excellence in Technology Awards.

Lattice won the awards for the XVL compression format and the XVL Studio Pro application.

Lattice's upgraded XVL technology is for 3D publishing, 3D data communications and sharing, and delivers fast 3D model viewing and data handling for large assemblies.

XVL builds from the high compression already available with the original XVL and reduces by about 70% the memory consumption needed while viewing large data-intensive 3D assemblies.

It has also decreased viewing times by about 50%.

The result is that XVL products can handle 3D CAD data files that are larger than 10Gbyte as nimbly and quickly as much smaller assemblies.

Using XVL Studio Pro, large 3D assemblies can be handled in digital design review sessions and shared globally.

This kind of improvement provides productivity increases for digitally-aware manufacturers.

Lattice won the Excellence award, a ranking given to only two software companies of 357 applicant companies.

In addition, Lattice was awarded the Technical Management award, one of only three companies out of 357 recognised for new technology, new product development and stable management.

The event was sponsored by the Resona Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion and the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Newspaper group.

The award marks the second time Lattice has won the highest honour in this annual event.

Lattice's XVL Kernel technology took the Excellence honour in 2000.

Traditionally in design review within the manufacturing industry, individual parts and subassemblies are visually checked using drawings, but it has not normally been possible to consider holistically the whole model at once due to the large size of CAD-generated 3D data.

This narrow view often leads to oversights of problem parts and design change requests back to the design team from a later process team.

The result is longer development lead times especially if these problem parts are not resolved before the manufacturing stage.

With XVL Studio Pro, interference and clearance checking of an entire large-scale assembly, such as an automobile, has now become possible.

A list of all part interferences and the amount of interference is created so that any problems are made immediately apparent with 3D and 2D graphical displays.

Design reviewers are alerted to problems, can take real-time measurements as necessary and their efficiency is further increased by the offset function, which gives a thickness to parts, such as the bodywork of the car.

For any industrial application dealing with large-scale data, using XVL Studio Pro can improve design quality and shorten lead times.

"We are delighted to receive this recognition of our company's innovations on the cutting edge of the 3D industry", said Hiroshi Toriya, CEO of Lattice Technology.

"We believe that the three key needs for high-performance 3D data viewing are small data size, a high-speed data display and small memory consumption".

"XVL products now enable customers to benefit immediately from these enhanced qualities while sharing, communicating and publishing 3D data".

"The success of XVL Studio Pro in Toyota and at other automotive manufacturers has illustrated the real business benefits of applications that apply the new XVL technology".