Maplesoft announces partnership with Siemens PLM Software

Collaboration provides NX users the ability to use Maple’s computational power to analyze and optimize designs.

Waterloo, Canada : Maplesoft™, a leading provider of high performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, today announced a partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Maple™, the technical computing software from Maplesoft, supplies important analysis capabilities to CAD systems, giving users of NX™ software, the digital product development solution from Siemens PLM Software, the ability to use the computational power of Maple to analyze and optimize designs.

“The addition of Maplesoft to the Siemens PLM Software Partner Program is part of our commitment to continuously provide customers with the broadest range of high-quality software tools that complement our own offerings,” said Rich Ramsey, vice president of Partner and Components Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “NX users who choose to implement Maple software will benefit from its ability to reduce the time needed to create complex designs and perform deep analysis.”

“Expanding Maple’s CAD connectivity to include Siemens PLM Software’s NX, provides more choices and flexibility to our current users,” said Laurent Bernardin, Executive Vice President, Maplesoft. “NX users will gain immense power from Maple since no other product on the market can provide the same computational power, mathematical breadth and depth, mathematically aware programming language, and application creation tools and connectivity options, all integrated into a highly intuitive technical-document environment.”

Maple 13 delivers a broad suite of math and analysis tools in an interface that scales easily from quick design calculations to full application development. From the world's most robust math engine and live design documentation to CAD connectivity and code generation, Maple supports all stages of the design lifecycle. Using Maple, design engineers can answer questions such as “What are the mathematical relationships between objects?” and “How do changes to object properties impact other objects?” NX connectivity also provides a convenient way to start Maple from within the NX environment.

Some key advantages of connecting NX with Maple include :

- Users can retrieve parameters from an NX CAD model, optimize those parameters, and update the CAD model with the revised parameter values directly within the Maple environment.
- The CAD Link Assistant in Maple provides a quick, interactive way to experiment with the NX CAD Connectivity functionality without having to write code.
- With the CAD Link Assistant in Maple, it is easy to browse the scalar quantities in an NX CAD design, so it can be used as a tool to aid in writing your own CAD-capable worksheets.
- Using the Maple programming language and built-in API commands, NX users can create specialized tools for part reconfiguration and optimization.