An important aspect of the industrial metaverse is the possibility to visualize the current state of all elements of the production environment. The state of the elements can be observed with sensors which publish their values on event bus systems like OPC/UA or MQTT. As a simple example lets suppose…

On a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) environment there are several steps to be done in order to get cuopt server container running — this might be helpful, thanks Ramakrishna Prabhu for helping me out on this :-) Follow these instructions to get Ubuntu with WSL2 How To Live Without Docker Desktop - A Developer's Perspective | Objectivity Blog According to the new Docker Desktop Licence Agreement, professional use of Docker Desktop in large organisations…www.objectivity.co.uk

the source code for this article can be found on github: https://github.com/mtw75/kit_customdata_view In the previous part we’ve created an empty KIT extension. Now lets react to selection changes. One thing I’ve found to be handy during development is to print custom attribute values of selected elements out to the console…

here are some snippets or pieces of information which helped me to get things going in KIT, will be extended as we go: Debugging Logging messages with your extension name In order to be able filter the debug messages of your extension, create a logger with logger.getLogger(__name__). import logging # logger with extension name e.g. My.Great.Extension logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)…

I’ve recently done first steps in creating Omniverse KIT extensions and following Richard Feynman, who said “If you want to master something, teach it”, I’d like to put together a few tutorials based on my own progress. First thing to get started is to create a KIT extension using the…

A smart factory, or “the machine building the machine”, as Elon Musk puts it, is all about digital twins — these virtual counterparts of real world entities and processes are used all over the place when it comes to designing products, planning and controlling the processes in production and logistics…

Here are some hints what to do and not to do from my experience when creating QML applications with C++ backend, also see the “official” qt best practice page Command Query Segregation : Functions that change state should not return values and functions that return values should not change state. see http://cqrs.nu/Faq/command-query-responsibility-segregation Do: declare…

Pixar’s open source Universal Scene Description (USD) framework has greatly improved collaboration workflows and pipelines for digital content creation in the animation movie studios all around the world. “USD is gaining traction, even outside our industry, because it allows us to have a massive scale of complexity and the ability…

Elements of the digital twin in manufacturing by example — planning the assembly tasks In the previous article we have looked into how Santa has planned the assembly processes for his base products — but how does he distribute the different operations on the elves ?