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Vortex Studio : CM Labs’ Core Technology
Vortex Studio is a platform for creating and deploying real-time, interactive simulations of mechanical systems. Vortex Studio is a key component of all of CM Labs’ industry-leading equipment simulators and it is available for you to design, build and develop your own real-time, interactive simulation products.
Vortex Studio comprises two packages :
- Vortex Create : visually build real-time mechanical machines and scenarios.
- Vortex Activate : deploy content created in systems ranging from desktop to many-screen custom simulators.
Why use Vortex Studio?
- Build and deploy real-time, interactive simulations of mechanisms, vehicles, and vessels.
- Validate design through virtual prototyping.
- Solve training needs for complex equipment with a high-fidelity experience.
What Can You do with Vortex Studio?
Create High Fidelity Digital Twins without coding
Imagine creating high-fidelity digital twins in minutes or quickly developing parts of mechanical equipment that require specific real-time simulation capabilities, in particular off road vehicles, cables and earth-moving investigations.
Vortex Studio can help you:
- Build visually complex, high fidelity and real-time mechanical systems without coding
- Benefit from physics modules improved over two decades of research and development
- Leverage integration plugins with major game engines, Unity and Unreal
- Use simulation deployment tools successfully used in commercial environments
- Implement virtual models for accelerating automation design
- Apply vehicle engineering for off-highway vehicles
- Generate synthetic data for training AI models
- Execute mission planning and optimization for critical operations
Add Simulated Mechanisms to Unity, Unreal Engine or other platform.
Using Vortex Create, the Vortex Editor tool can produce simulated mechanical systems you can export and integrate into Unity, Unreal Engine, and other engines. These mechanisms and vehicles may be easily connected to game logic, inputs and outputs and can move naturally in the virtual environment.
Build Training Simulators
Using Vortex Activate, simulators can run any Vortex Studio content, including all the simulations available in the Vortex simulator product lines, as well as any custom content created with Vortex Create.
Create Marketing Simulators
Use Vortex Studio to create marketing simulators to bring exposure for your products at trade shows, or to demonstrate product capabilities offsite.
Perform Human in the Loop Testing
Use Vortex Studio to perform human-in-the-loop testing for vehicles, while supporting full off-road simulation capabilities.
Key Features
Vortex Create Key Features
Using the tools in the Vortex Create package, you can:
- Build visually high-fidelity real-time mechanical systems.
- Design a high-fidelity physics engine with a number of extension modules including:
- Rigid Body
- Vehicle, Tire and Track Models
- Cables
- Earth Moving
- Allow developers to simply extend the core functionalities using Python 3 scripting.
- Enable the verification test suite in Python, providing tools for quality assurance and maintenance of simulations.
- Support export to Unity and Epic Unreal platforms.
- Integrate out-of-the-box with Simulink for control system design.
- Support integration with ROS2 for building robotics applications.
- Design modular architecture, with mechanical configuration and attachments, allowing users to scale their productivity by efficiently building and testing variations of their models.
Vortex Activate Key Features
- Vortex Studio Director is a desktop-based application that provides an interface for creating, configuring, launching and monitoring distributed simulations.
- Vortex Studio Console lets users launch a simulation session, select content, augment the user interface to conduct training, testing or demonstration on a distributed system.
- Additional tools come ready-to-use for packaging and deployment.
Vortex Create
Vortex Create Key Features
Using the tools in the Vortex Create package, you can:
- Build visually high-fidelity real-time mechanical systems.
- Design a high-fidelity physics engine with a number of extension modules including:
- Rigid Body
- Vehicle, Tire and Track Models
- Cables
- Earth Moving
- Allow developers to simply extend the core functionalities using Python 3 scripting.
- Enable the verification test suite in Python, providing tools for quality assurance and maintenance of simulations.
- Support export to Unity and Epic Unreal platforms.
- Integrate out-of-the-box with Simulink for control system design.
- Support integration with ROS2 for building robotics applications.
- Design modular architecture, with mechanical configuration and attachments, allowing users to scale their productivity by efficiently building and testing variations of their models.
Vortex Activate
Vortex Activate Key Features
- Vortex Studio Director is a desktop-based application that provides an interface for creating, configuring, launching and monitoring distributed simulations.
- Vortex Studio Console lets users launch a simulation session, select content, augment the user interface to conduct training, testing or demonstration on a distributed system.
- Additional tools come ready-to-use for packaging and deployment.
Vortex Studio
Professional Services
CM Labs also offers a full range of professional services related to Vortex Studio.
Vehicle and Equipment Models
CM Labs can build your initial equipment simulation to your specifications. These models will be tested against an automatic verification suite that can also be used to assure consistency against software upgrades and system definition change orders.
Custom Crane and
Earthmoving Simulators
CM Labs can build full simulators to your specifications and for your needs. We have a wide range of hardware platforms that can support your training, product discovery, or human-in-the-loop testing needs.
Marketing
Simulators
CM Labs can build marketing simulators for your trade shows or on-site demonstration needs. We have built hundreds of simulators for demonstration purposes at all the large trade shows, like Bauma and Conexpo, and are experts at crafting simulations that will highlight your equipment’s special capabilities.
Maritime and Subsea Simulations
CM Labs also does maritime and subsea simulations and can craft offshore platforms and vessels with cranes, underwater ROV, Tethering Management System, and long marine cables.
Vortex Users' Essentials
What customers
are saying about us.
Efficiency
“Our team can focus on their core competencies and spend more time on client deliverables instead of wrangling software."
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Oceaneering
Realism
“Realism is much more than just visuals. To offer a complete training experience, we needed our simulation to be as physically truthful as possible.”
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Bluedrop
Flexibility
“Vortex opens up new simulation possibilities, ranging from vessel involvement in ROV deployment and operations, to subsea mining.”
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Noel Bovens
Marin
Safety
“The Vortex simulator closes the loop on training. We’re confident that we are supplying the best and safest possible training to our operators.”
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Mark Oterdoom
Project Manager
Mammoet