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VxCables provides an ideal solution for modeling hoisting systems, robot tethers, underwater cables, tow ropes and mooring lines for accurate cable motion and realistic cable-equipment interaction. Employ VxCables to put simulated 3D cables into your virtual environment for visualizing and predicting cable behaviour.

Add Physically Accurate Cables to Your Simulations

The VxCables module simulates the physical behaviour of numerous heavy-equipment, marine, and subsea cables, and is used extensively for simulating cable systems in construction, mining, exploration, and robotics applications. VxCables permits visual-simulation developers to create and deploy cables for 3D vehicles and robots, hoisting systems such as cranes, and lifting, towing and mooring systems, for a wide range of industrial, research, and training purposes.

Model High-Fidelity Cable Behaviour

The VxCables module ensures real-time behaviour by allowing virtual cables to adjust to bends, adding simulation levels of detail only in areas of high curvature while distributing mass and forces correctly. Cables can interact and collide with other dynamic Vortex objects or with themselves. Complete cable systems, including winches and pulleys, can be simulated, as well as the behaviour of ropes, flexible pipes/tubing, chains and wire harnesses.

Sample VxCables Applications

Deploy realistic Vortex cables in your visual simulations to model accurate behaviour in applications such as:

• Crane hoisting systems for construction, industrial, port and marine applications
• Tethers in ground-based robots such as ordnance disposal robots
• Lifting systems involving spreaders and multiple cranes
• Subsea cables, risers, and ROV tether management, including buoyancy and ocean-current effects
• Marine mooring, anchoring lines and ship-to-ship transfer cables
• Helicopter-lift, drop and rescue operations using ropes
• Marine and vehicle towing cables