What is ProtoTwin?
ProtoTwin is a collection of products for real-time rendering and animation, physics simulation, controls testing and virtual commissioning.
Products
For a much more comprehensive list of features that are included under each product, please see our features page.
Rendering
The ProtoTwin Render product allows you to create high-quality images, animations and videos in 3D. You can import your own CAD or 3D assets into the model, assign materials from the built-in standard library, create your own physically-based materials with custom textures, animate entities and walk around the virtual world in Virtual Reality (VR).
Simulation
The ProtoTwin Simulate product allows you to create physics-based simulations of industrial machines, robots, mechanisms, mechanical systems and more. You can add physics behaviours to your CAD and 3D assets, including transport surfaces to enable conveyor belts, joints and motors to enable robots and industrial machines, sensors, suction and mechanical grippers, entity creators, deleters, and more. You may create your own scripted components that run every frame or respond to events (e.g. a sensor being blocked or cleared) to control your robots, machines and conveyors. You can interact with these entities in Virtual Reality (VR) to gain a better understanding of how your digital twin will work and respond to human intervention in the real world.
Connect
The ProtoTwin Connect product allows you to connect ProtoTwin to industrial PLCs and co-simulate with other software. You can also use the integrated editor to create Function Block Diagram (FBD) programs, which are executed by the integrated SoftPLC. ProtoTwin provides the virtual world for the PLC. You can connect PLC tags to component IO signals (e.g. motor state, motor speed, motor position, sensor state, etc). We provide a Python API for robotics and ML research (Coming Soon).
Contact Us
If you ever need any help, want to make a feature request, or have detected a bug, please contact us and we will respond as soon as we can.