Second Digital Twin Project with Solidworks & Unreal Engine 5
The level of detail and surrounding is nice, are you planning on having any more simulations with this project?
Hello Karel,
this project was build for presentation to remote users in a small multiplayer colab setup + pixelstreaming.
It also showed how well the connection to Solidworks with Datasmith already works.
I did all the animations with Blueprints, so a connection to a PLC would be possible. The machine is already in production and unfortunately I don’t have access to the PLC program.
But to answer the question from your other post, a visualization inside the HMI touch panel would be a very good use case.
For the Connection you can use OPC UA or Mqtt.
Hopefully someone realease a stable&saftey OPC Plugin in the Future
Hello ,
Thanks for your answer, glad to see industrial engineering oriented topics like yours here. The possibilities are endless when reading and getting into unreal engine.
I see epic committing to HMI development for the automotive market so will be interesting to follow this. A good plugin seems indeed required to fuel the blueprint animations.
Concerning the availability of a good plugin, I saw this webinar that uses temperature data from a IOT Device.
Webinar: Visualizing Data in Digital Twins with Unreal Engine
They did provide a plugin which could import data only for the 5.0 version of the engine. I did see the GitHub repository for this being updated some days ago:
Unreal Engine and Azure Digital Twins integration demo
To integrate full PLC parameters would beautiful, experimenting with unreal engine to develop digital twins of machines and ultimately factories.
Hi Karel,
I made a example for a HMI + Virtual Camera to check if there is any collision.
controlled with a xbox conroller
Wow Cpt.Brotzeit, this stuff gets me exited
The Xbox controller is a nice touch, I will check it out to try for my robot project.
I strongly believe these kind of simulations bring a lot of advantages. I see all to often time being wasted visualizing/understanding the problem.
The render quality of the CAD is high , did you use Omniverse again here?
Finally do you have some good tutorials or guides to learn more? I find myself searching long time to find good guides for these kinds of projects.
Best wishes and lots of fun for 2023,
Karel