Vortex® Studio
Vortex® Studio is CM Labs’ core simulation technology, enabling the creation, deployment, and validation of high-fidelity, real-time mechanical simulations across training, engineering, and automation.
Vortex Studio: CM Labs’ Core Technology
Vortex Studio serves as a platform for developing and launching real-time, interactive simulations of mechanical systems. It constitutes a vital element in all of CM Labs’ top-tier equipment simulation curriculum products and can be used for designing and producing personalized 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?
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Create High-Fidelity Digital Twins without Coding
Imagine creating high-fidelity digital twins in minutes or rapidly developing components for mechanical equipment that demand specific, real-time simulation capabilities, particularly for off-road vehicles, cables, and earth-moving investigations.
Vortex Studio’s wide range of capabilities can help you:
– Create visually complex, high-fidelity, and real-time mechanical systems without the need for coding
– Utilize engineering-grade simulation modules refined over two decades of extensive research and development
– Take advantage of integration plugins compatible with major game engines, like Unity and Unreal Engine
– Harness simulation deployment tools proven effective in commercial environments
– Develop virtual models to expedite automation design processes
– Apply vehicle engineering expertise tailored for off-highway vehicles
– Produce synthetic data to train AI models effectively
– Conduct mission planning and optimization for critical operations -
Add Simulated Mechanisms to Unity, Unreal Engine, or Other Platforms
Using Vortex Create, the Vortex Editor tool can generate simulated mechanical systems that can be exported and integrated into Unity, Unreal Engine, and other engines. These mechanisms and vehicles can be seamlessly linked to game logic, inputs, and outputs, allowing them to move realistically within the virtual environment.
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Build Simulation Training Systems
Using Vortex Activate, simulators can run all Vortex Studio content, encompassing simulations from the Intellia Simulation Curriculums for construction, utilities, and ports product lines and custom content developed with Vortex Create.
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Create Marketing Simulators
Use Vortex Studio to create marketing simulations, garner exposure for your products at trade shows, or demonstrate product capabilities offsite.
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Perform Human-in-the-Loop Testing
Use Vortex Studio to conduct human-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for vehicles and benefit from comprehensive off-road simulation capabilities.
Key Features
Vortex Create Key Features
The Vortex Create package allows you to:
- Construct visually high-fidelity, real-time mechanical systems
- Develop a high-fidelity physics engine with various extension modules, such as Rigid Body, Vehicle, Tire, and Track Models, as well as Cables and Earthmoving (soil and terrain)
- Facilitate developers in extending core functionalities through Python 3 scripting
- Implement a verification test suite in Python to ensure quality and maintain simulations effectively
- Enable export to Unity and Epic Unreal platforms
- Seamlessly integrate with Simulink for control system design right out of the box
- Support integration with ROS2 for building robotics applications
- Create a modular architecture with mechanical configuration and attachments that empowers users to enhance productivity by efficiently constructing and testing model variations
Vortex Activate Key Features
Vortex Studio Director is a desktop-based application that offers an intuitive interface for creating, configuring, launching, and monitoring distributed simulations.
With Vortex Studio Console, users can initiate a simulation session, choose content, and customize the user interface to facilitate training, testing, or demonstrations on a distributed system.
Supplementary tools are readily available for packaging and deployment.
Vortex Studio Professional Services
CM Labs also offers a full range of professional services related to Vortex Studio.
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Vehicle and Equipment Models
CM Labs can create customized equipment simulations tailored to your specific requirements. These models undergo rigorous testing using an automated verification suite to ensure consistency in the face of software updates and system definition changes.
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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 HIL testing needs.
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Marketing Simulators
CM Labs can build marketing simulators for your trade shows or on-site demonstration needs. We have showcased 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.
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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
We have found that the learning rate is about 2.5 times faster on simulators than it is sitting in the actual piece of equipment.
Doug Dalton, President
Baker Technical Institute
We had new hires coming in with no equipment background and longtime operators who never got deep training, he said. Simulation gave us a way to train both, consistently and safely.
Chris Jones, Director of Infrastructure Maintenance
Hillsborough County Water Resources
CM Labs improves our training success rate enormously, and it’s revolutionized our approach to monitoring, measuring, and increasing productivity.
Simon Harper, Learning & Development Manager and Director
Port of Tilbury
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