The Sky Eye Systems cloud customer story is online now.
Sky Eye Systems is a specialist in small, tactical, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
To bring its Rapier aircraft to market, the Italian startup selected the 3DEXPERIENCE Cloud platform and the Reinvent the Sky industry solution to enable visibility and collaboration between designers and engineers and speed up development processes.
The company uses CATIA to design all aspects of the aircraft and takes advantage of ENOVIA’s collaborative features on the platform to enable concurrent engineering and bring all disciplines and stakeholders together within the same data model.
This seamless data flow ensures full traceability throughout the product lifecycle and eases compliance with stringent industry certifications. The cloud implementation enables the business to accelerate time to market and more quickly develop new UAS for specific applications.
The company uses the powerful surface modelling capabilities in CATIA on the platform to ensure optimal aerodynamic performance in the Rapier X-25.
“With CATIA we can define complex surfaces and check the results for inflections,” Paterni said. “The aerodynamics department designed the entire aircraft shape in CATIA and used its surface modeling tools to create a well-designed surface that leads to a well-manufactured component. The skin of the wing is made of composites and is perfectly smooth with no imperfections.”
Sky Eye Systems also uses CATIA to design composites parts and improve light weighting.
“We can compare various materials and geometries in real time to determine the best material and weight,” Paterni said. “ A half-wing, for example, has a 1.7 meter span and weighs less than a bottle of water. It’s always a challenge to obtain the lowest possible weight within the technological production limits, but CATIA is a great tool for allowing us to do this. The composites modeling capabilities also allow us to reduce time to market. Before we’d have had to create lots of time consuming 2D drawings at the preliminary stage before progressing to the detailed design phases. Now, we can do all of this digitally and take into account manufacturability requirements from the start.”
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Sky Eye Systems uses CATIA to ensure optimal aerodynamic performance of the Rapier X-25
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