Visual Digital Twin
Overlay 3D content onto physical objects in Augmented Reality
SpinFire XR provides a Visual Digital Twin Experience for Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality users,
By overlaying physical items with rich, 3D digital representations, the Visual Digital Twin Experiences offers intuitive, in-context visualization to support frontline understanding and decision-making.
The Visual Digital Twin is an important element of the full Digital Twin, and it can be used on its own outside of a full Digital Twin process. A full Digital Twin is a digital replica of a physical asset or entity, it aims to integrate IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and a real time network. It includes the physical item, processes, people, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes.
Whether reviewing updates to a product or verifying fit and form against current assets, teams can identify potential issues earlier in the process, without needing to wait for physical prototypes. By enabling faster visual validation on site, the Visual Digital Twin reduces rework, shortens decision cycles and supports continuous improvement in inspection, assembly and service planning workflows.
Preparing data for the Visual Digital Twin Experience is a seamless fully automated process using the Visualization Pipeline. You can “save as” from your CAD session, drag and drop from the file system or drive it directly from your PLM workflow.
The Visual Digital Twin allows engineers and technicians to visually overlay 3D CAD models onto physical objects using a tablet, enabling side by side comparison of digital and physical components in real world context. This supports quality inspections, variant validation and impact assessments, helping users visually confirm whether a new design will fit, clash or alter performance in an existing assembly or environment.
To undertake packaging studies, load new 3D digital versions of components on top of, or inside, the actual physical to establish fit, clash and access issues before finalising the design or production process.
When undertaking a product refresh or update, overlay the new digital “refreshed part” onto the existing physical to see if they look “right” and will fit.
Information is more easily understood in context. By placing your text information linked to 3D data, and overlaying it on the physical, the Visual Digital Twin improves understanding and saves time.
To understand how your new product compares to a competitors existing physical product, overlay or position your Visual Digital Twin on top of, or next to, the competitors physical and improve your product competitiveness.
