American Wave Machines Uses PTC CoCreate to Design Standing Wave Surf Machine

By DE Editors

American Wave Machines Inc. (AWM) is using PTC CoCreate to design SurfStream, a standing wave surf machine for the water park industry. AWM’s patented SurfStream delivers real surfing and wave riding capabilities for hotels, resorts, water parks, and sports exhibitions.

AWM is using CoCreate’s explicit 3D modeling tools to provide customers with the virtual 3D prototyping and visualizations they require while giving AWM the flexibility to scale custom SurfStream models to fit the dimensions of each hotel, resort, water park, and sports exhibition.

“Almost everything we create must be built by people who use 2D prints as the reference information,” says Bruce McFarland, president of AWM. “CoCreate  is used to design the system in 3D solids models from our parts and from the water park designer’s desired layout. One of the best things about CoCreate is in the reduction of design to manufacture time it affords. Constraint-free design is my absolute number one favorite feature. I can modify a design and reissue prints in a matter of hours.”

In addition, the use of CoCreate 3D explicit modeling offers AWM clients 3D visual confirmation, which provides images that can be incorporated in marketing, manuals, and design reviews.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.