VirtualPaintShop - towards the virtual process chain in painting

Painting of complex structures, like car bodies, requires many steps in manufacturing for pre-treatment, cleaning, phosphating, electrocoating, pneumatic of electrostatic coat application, thermal drying or ultraviolet curing, cavity protection and others.

Features

To ensure high quality of paint and efficient processes, reduce paint errors and consumption of resources, improve corrosion protection, avoid unnecessary design iterations by means of frontloading, computer based simulation can be used to assess and optimize individual steps in manufacturing or in the design of the product to be coated. VirtualPaintShop, developed by CADFEM since 1997 supplies such analysis capabilities.

The primary goals for the development of VirtualPaintShop® are ease-of-use, speed of analysis, integration in existing development processes and supply of the full set of tools for painting relevant simulation.

Solutions for dipping analysis (VPS/DIP), electrocoating (VPS/EDC), electrostatic or pneumatic coating (VPS/ESC), thermal drying (VPS/DRY) including chemical reaction analysis of paint and/or adhesives (VPS/KIN), ultraviolet curing (VPS/UV) and application and flow analysis for cavity protection (VPS/CP) are available. Specific tools and methods for modelling specific simulation models (CATIA Toolkit) and derived tools for further specific tasks (AcousticPathAnalyzer) have been developed by CADFEM.

VirtualPaintShop is supplied worldwide by many distribution and support partners.