Speeding Composite Ply Lay-up With Laser Projection Technology

FiberSIM Laser Projection™ software helps engineers capitalize on the power and accuracy of today’s laser projection machines for manufacturing products made of advanced composite materials. Laser projection systems can reduce errors and shorten the lay-up time for composite parts by displaying ply outlines directly on the lay-up tool. These laser outlines aid in the location and orientation of plies during the lay-up process, yet, creating data files to drive laser systems is tedious, time-consuming and error-prone.

With FiberSIM Laser Projection software, engineers can automatically generate laser data files from within their CAD system directly from the 3D model of the composite part. This significantly increases engineering productivity, greatly reduces errors and makes updating and maintaining laser projection data easy.

FiberSIM Laser Projection software helps engineers:

• Generate laser projection data files automatically;
• Create files that support all popular laser projection systems;
• Avoid data translation and program multi-head systems;
• Export laser projection data directly from the 3D CAD model.

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