KOMPAS-3D
KOMPAS-3D creates associative three-dimensional models of individual parts and assemblies. The models can be made from original designs and/or standard part libraries. Its parametric technology allows you to quickly generate ranges of product models based on single prototypes. Numerous utility functions help you solve auxiliary design and production problems.
A key feature of KOMPAS-3D is that it uses its own modeling kernel and parametric system, both of which were developed by the specialists at ASCON.
The fundamental purpose of KOMPAS-3D is to model new products quickly, to reduce their design time and to launch them into production as fast as possible. These goals are reached by the following features found in KOMPAS-3D:
- Quickly creates engineering and design documentation for production output, including assembly drawings, BOMs, and detail drawings.
- Cleanly translates geometry to design applications.
- Accurately exports model geometry to control-programs, such as for NC equipment.
- Efficiently generates images and illustrations for product catalogs and operating manuals.
KOMPAS-3D is a flexible 3D modeling system that allows you to create models by several methods, including the following ones on the right. These approaches allow you to create editable associative models easily.
- Bottom-up modeling using finished components.
- Top-down modeling by designing components to match specific designs.
- Modeling based on layout drawings, such as kinematic diagrams.
- Or any combination of these modeling methods.

The KOMPAS-3D system has powerful functions for managing project of thousands of sub-assemblies, parts, and standard library products. It supports all the capabilities of 3D solids and surface modeling that have become the standard among medium-level CAD/CAM programs, including these ones:
- Intuitive creation of new geometry, and importing and manipulation of surfaces.
- Associative settings for element parameters.
- Boolean operators for generating atypically shaped elements; functions include union, intersection, and subtraction.
- Advanced surface and shape modeling for designing complex, ergonomic, and easy to use industrial products; functions include point grids, by network of curves, ruled surfaces, extrusions, lofted surfaces, swept surfaces, and revolutions.
- Construction of auxiliary lines and planes, and spatial curves, including broken lines, splines, and spirals.
- Addition of structural elements, such as chamfers, fillets, holes, stiffness elements, and thin-walled shells.
- Creation of any shape of arrays and assembly components.
- Component modeling with assemblies, with relative positioning of parts in assemblies.
- Constraints for mating assembly components, including automatic constraints for faster assembly creation.
- Special tools to simplify work with large assemblies.
- Flexible parts and assembly editing, including characteristic points.
- Redetermination of the parameters of any element at any design stage causes a reconstruction of the whole model.
- Effective mould design with pattern drafts, joint lines, cavities defined by part shape, and shrinkage allowance.
- Capable sheet metal modeling through sheet body creation, bends, holes, louver, fillets, punching (stamping) and cutting, cap closing, sheet metal unwrapping, and associative drawings of unwrapped sheet metal.
- Inserting standards products into the model from a library, generating user model libraries.
- Efficient collision detection of parts.