Towards a Process Chain for Virtual Car Body Painting

摘要

The BMW Group has now adopted an Innovative method for optimizing and speeding up vehicle development in the paint shop for car bodies.They have commissioned CAD-FEM GmbH to produce a "modular software suite" that allows the painting process to be simulated in advance on the computer screen.Although commercial software is readily available for crash simulation,no such software is available for paint shop processes.But precisely such computer aided tools are particularly important when it comes to shortening the development cycles for new vehicles and reducing the risk of late changes due to manufactur-ability issues and a lack of paint quality in the daily series production.