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Deliver, operate and plan with your digital twin in the browser. The core of the platform is open source under AGPL, and the public demo requires no installation or account.

Getting started Try the live demo

realvirtual in the browser — a fenced machining cell with live KPI tiles, alarm cards and the tool strip

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

realvirtual provides a browser-based 3D viewer, HMI and machine information system for industrial digital twins. A prepared GLB keeps geometry and realvirtual metadata together. Operators, maintenance teams and planners can open the same delivered twin without learning Unity or installing a viewer.

Use it in standalone mode for an interactive model, or connect it to live controller data for machine monitoring. Discrete event simulation runs material-flow studies, and the Layout Planner (beta) assembles layouts.

Open source and commercial

Section titled “Open source and commercial”

The viewer, its simulation runtime and the Layout Planner are open source under AGPL-3.0. Opening, operating and planning with a delivered twin costs nothing. Commercial licences cover authoring tools (the Asset & Kinematics Editor and CAD import) and a few calculation kernels. These include robot IK and machining. The discrete event simulation core is open source as well; the experiment manager for studies is commercial. The public demo runs the full commercial feature set in your browser without a licence. You can try every feature before deciding. See what you get for the reasons behind the split and editions for the feature-by-feature comparison.

These pages document realvirtual, the browser platform. realvirtual for Unity, the Unity-based engineering platform with Starter and Professional editions, has separate documentation at doc.realvirtual.io.

1. Build the twin

Import CAD in the Editor and add kinematics, drives, signals and snap points.

The workflow

2. Choose the use case

Layout planning, virtual commissioning, discrete event simulation or the machine information system (3D HMI).

Use cases

3. Deliver and operate

Share the twin as a link, host it yourself, or connect it to live controller data with realvirtual CONNECT.

Sharing · CONNECT

Quick Start

Section titled “Quick Start”
  1. Read the workflow — build the twin once, then use it for your use case.
  2. Open a twin from a URL, a local GLB or the public demo, and learn the navigation.
  3. Build your own with Your First Twin from CAD.
  4. Continue with your use case: Layout Planning, Virtual Commissioning, DES or the Machine Information System (3D HMI).

See also

Section titled “See also”