{"id":46763,"date":"2021-12-17T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:29:08","slug":"climate-change-rocks-with-solidworks-and-the-3dexperience-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2021\/12\/climate-change-rocks-with-solidworks-and-the-3dexperience-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change “Rocks” with SOLIDWORKS and the 3D<\/b>EXPERIENCE Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

An abundance of rock walls crosses the European landscape. There are more than 24,000 miles of rock walls in Ireland alone. NASKA Robotics<\/a> GmbH has received both European and German government funding to develop its innovative robotic RockFarm system to capture carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sup>) from the atmosphere to stem the damaging effects of climate change.<\/p>\n

The robots will build rock walls, fill them with rock powder that absorbs carbon dioxide, flush the walls once the rock medium becomes saturated with carbon, and refill the walls with fresh carbon-absorbing rock powder, along with other farm tasks.<\/p>\n

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NASKA needed a user-friendly mechanical design platform because the design team is primarily software developers\u2014not CAD engineers\u2014writing code to program robots to complete rock-farming tasks with mechanical extensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed a design tool that was both easy to use and operated inside a browser in the cloud across our [geographically] distributed team,\u201d notes Dr. Tobias Brett, CEO of NASKA. \u201cWe chose the design tools on the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE\u00ae<\/a> platform because they operate the closest to how SOLIDWORKS\u00ae<\/a> works.\u201d NASKA adopted 3D Sculptor and 3D Creator on the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform because the tools meet the team\u2019s industrial design, mechanical design, and lifecycle management needs and function in a web browser in the cloud.<\/p>\n

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Perfect Remote Design Solution That Saves Time and Money <\/strong><\/p>\n

When they started in the summer of 2019, NASKA could not have predicted the cloud-based 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform would be the perfect solution, enabling continued development despite the pandemic lockdowns of 2020.<\/p>\n

Further, Brett points out, \u201cbecause our design tool operates in a browser and our data infrastructure is in the cloud, we\u2019ve avoided the heavy up-front capital investment in hardware that startups have historically faced.\u201d Brett continues, \u201cWe\u2019re saving additional money in the form of time savings \u2026 related to our workflow. It gave us a fast start working with colleagues who are not experienced in CAD. If one person becomes a bottleneck, we can quickly hand off some of that work to another team member and eliminate potential delays.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scalability of Security as Design Advances <\/strong><\/p>\n

The 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform also allows NASKA to modulate and scale security. Security was light at the start when the team was investigating concepts. As the design advances, they can protect intellectual property with tighter security protocols.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform makes design resilient against any pandemic scenario because even though our offices are closed, the team can continue working remotely from home,\u201d Brett stresses.<\/p>\n

Read the full case study on NASKA’s use of SOLIDWORKS and tools in the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Works portfolio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like more information about the design and engineering solutions on the 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform, please contact your local reseller<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables NASKA Robotics programmers to develop an innovative carbon capture system using rock walls.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":46760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2933,3285,563,50,26,826,14,18],"tags":[3012,2989,1890,3082,19],"class_list":["post-46763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dexperience","category-3dexperienceworks","category-cloud-computing","category-collaboration","category-customer-stories","category-dassault-systmes","category-design","category-solidworks","tag-3d-creator","tag-3d-sculptor","tag-3dexperience","tag-cloud-based-product-development","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions\/48442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}