EEvision - a new Altair Product
Altair Employee
Altair EEvision Platform – EEvision helps companies in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial markets simplify design, manufacturing, and service of complex electrical products and systems. EEvision supports digitalization of the development and service processes using digital twin technology.
Technically, Altair EEvision is a visualization tool that displays wiring data like harness information in the form of schematic diagrams for a variety of usages, including documentation, debugging, or service
Incremental Navigation: This is EEvision’s fundamental approach to only show the “interesting” fragments of a wiring diagram. Starting with a point of interest, the user can always extend the diagram with elements that are electrically connected. Just a mouse double-click does the trick. And the delete button will remove selected objects. The example video on the right shows starting with component A10, then double-click on connector A2, double-click on D1.A and on B1.A and then pressing the “Optimize” button to optimize the diagram layout.
Web Application: EEvision is a Web App running in a Browser using JavaScript and Web Assembly. The browser history functions (the Back and Forward buttons) are fully supported to give a good user experience together with Incremental Navigation.
GUI-API: EEvision comes with a JavaScript API to support customer-specific integrations into existing Web portal solutions.
Search Function: A general text-based search function provides some comfort in searching the connectivity database (as stored in the ”EDB”). The example video on the right shows how to search for objects with names starting with “a1” and then loads some of the results into the canvas.
Extract Function: A set of extract functions extends the principle of Incremental Navigation by loading some electrically meaningful excerpts into the canvas. The example video on the right displays just the extraction started at A10.
Backend: The accurate connectivity data that comes from “digital twin” data, is today usually provided by KBL files or through EEvision’s “EDB Creator” API. EEvision supports so-called 150% data models as common in the automotive industry and of course processes that, to always display the so-called 100% data that fits a given vehicle or machine.
The EEvision 2023 Release provides these news:
- Important: Altair EEvision is now available under Altair Units licensing.
- Important: Altair EEvision is now available on the Altair Marketplace.
- New: Object-search features have been improved to allow faster and more precise system exploration.
- New: GUI cockpit now provides easier access to apps (DocGen, Signoff, Edbdiff) for improved productivity.
- New: Improved KBL reader has better compatibility with different existing KBL dialects in the market.
- New: EEvision now comes with a new, more complex, and more realistic SUV demo design (suv.edb).
- New: The EDB Creator API now supports JNA version 5.x (Java Native Access).
- New: We now support EDML syntax highlighting for the Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor.
- New: GUI dialog to select EDB model files has been redesigned and improved.
- Fix: Handling of duplicate attributes in the EDB to better support multiple values at the same attribute.
- Fix: EEvision's history is now always updated correctly.