Coimbatore – Texmo Industries, a leading Pump and Motor Manufacturer from India, has invested in SolidWorks for their Design and Development of Motors and Pumps.
The company has been diligently working on adopting best practices in Design and Development. SolidWorks was selected as a part of it's ongoing process of incorporating latest tools and technologies.
'By Choosing SolidWorks, after conducting exhaustive review and analysis of contemporary software, Texmo Industries has started incorporating 3D Design in mainstream product design and development to leverage on the inherent benefits that emerging 3D CAD technology such as SolidWorks offers in terms of compressing design cycle time, identifying upfront, all downstream problems and challenges and ensuring standardization of the Design process by automating Design functions for higher productivity and accuracy,' says, Mr. Shivan Ramachandran – Joint Managing Director, Texmo Industries.
'In addition to choosing the CAD platform for next generation design, it is important that the investment is ably supported by a Team of Professional Engineers who meet and exceed our expectations. On this count, we have chosen EGS Computers India Private Limited to partner with us in our endeavours to develop Energy efficient, Cost-effective and Superior Quality Pumps and Motors.'
'It has been a rewarding experience, working with Texmo Industries, to help them in achieving their goals in the shortest possible time. At EGS India, we constantly strive to impart leading edge technologies to our Customers in India. Our mission is to help Indian Manufacturing Industries develop Superior Quality products incorporating design tools and technologies that would empower them to capture higher market share and technological leadership, across the World. We are indeed proud to be associated with Texmo Industries in their quest for excellence,' says, Mr. Natarajan Ramamoorthy, Managing Director, EGS Computers India Private Limited, Value Added Reseller ( VAR ) of SolidWorks in India for over a decade. 'Our Team of Engineers headed by our Mr. N. Balasubramanian – Territory Manager, Coimbatore, have been instrumental in achieving this milestone in right earnest.'
Nov 30, 2009
Texmo Industries chooses SolidWorks for Design and Development of Pumps and Motors
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Peugeot Sport selects HyperWorks Suite to to optimize composite development processes
Streamlining development processes of LMP1 race car.
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that Peugeot Sport, the racing department of the Peugeot brand, has chosen the HyperWorks Suite to optimize composite development processes.
"A major reason to choose the HyperWorks Suite is the user friendliness of HyperMesh, especially for the creation of composites models,” said Livio Galassi, composite design engineer and structure analyst at Peugeot Sport. “The interface is very intuitive and easy to learn. Furthermore, I see many great improvements in the area of composite model creation and optimization in the recent version of the software suite. This new approach allows us a faster and more efficient design of composite parts.”
Peugeot Sport is using HyperMesh, the pre-processor of the suite; OptiStruct for optimization; and HyperView for the post-processing of the data. The software suite is mainly used to design and optimize structural elements in composites, i.e., for the chassis and bodywork of Peugeot’s LMP1 car. Especially in racecar development, a flexible and fast way to evaluate the design of composite parts is essential to improve the overall car performance.
“Another important reason to choose HyperWorks is the flexible license system Altair offers,” said Galassi. “We can use the HyperWorks units we already have for any HyperWorks application needed and can also use them for Altair’s partner products of the HWEC (HyperWorks Enabled Community). Even if we haven’t done this yet, it is an option we are thinking about as it will help us to consolidate our software costs. Moreover, Altair’s customer support and the customer communication with its homepage, newsletter and events is excellent."
“We appreciate Peugeot Sport’s selection of HyperWorks,” said Mauro Guglielminotti, managing director Altair, France. “The motorsport and the aerospace industries are the leaders in composite design, but it does get used more and more in every industry that is looking to produce lighter and better products. With the HyperWorks suite, we offer the right tools to optimize composite development processes, a solution that wins growing acceptance throughout all industries.”
TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that Peugeot Sport, the racing department of the Peugeot brand, has chosen the HyperWorks Suite to optimize composite development processes.
"A major reason to choose the HyperWorks Suite is the user friendliness of HyperMesh, especially for the creation of composites models,” said Livio Galassi, composite design engineer and structure analyst at Peugeot Sport. “The interface is very intuitive and easy to learn. Furthermore, I see many great improvements in the area of composite model creation and optimization in the recent version of the software suite. This new approach allows us a faster and more efficient design of composite parts.”
Peugeot Sport is using HyperMesh, the pre-processor of the suite; OptiStruct for optimization; and HyperView for the post-processing of the data. The software suite is mainly used to design and optimize structural elements in composites, i.e., for the chassis and bodywork of Peugeot’s LMP1 car. Especially in racecar development, a flexible and fast way to evaluate the design of composite parts is essential to improve the overall car performance.
“Another important reason to choose HyperWorks is the flexible license system Altair offers,” said Galassi. “We can use the HyperWorks units we already have for any HyperWorks application needed and can also use them for Altair’s partner products of the HWEC (HyperWorks Enabled Community). Even if we haven’t done this yet, it is an option we are thinking about as it will help us to consolidate our software costs. Moreover, Altair’s customer support and the customer communication with its homepage, newsletter and events is excellent."
“We appreciate Peugeot Sport’s selection of HyperWorks,” said Mauro Guglielminotti, managing director Altair, France. “The motorsport and the aerospace industries are the leaders in composite design, but it does get used more and more in every industry that is looking to produce lighter and better products. With the HyperWorks suite, we offer the right tools to optimize composite development processes, a solution that wins growing acceptance throughout all industries.”
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Call for Speakers Opens for 2010 Collaboration & Interoperability Congress
Event welcomes presentations from engineering and manufacturing community.
LOVELAND, Colo - Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today announced its official call for speakers for the 2010 event to be held May 3 to 5 in Estes Park, Colorado.
Now in its sixth year, the annual CIC brings together experts and executives from a wide range of discrete manufacturing industries, as well as representatives from government and defense communities, to discuss the latest issues in collaboration and interoperability. The two-day meeting of international professionals explores the current challenges and opportunities of sharing design data and bridging the divides within the product development process.
Conference organizers are looking for presentations related to the following topics:
-- Digital Product Data Deployment Beyond Engineering
-- Analysis/Simulation and Manufacturing Interoperability
-- Data Migration & Legacy Data Management
-- PDM Interoperability & PLCS
-- Collaboration & Interoperability Technology and Implementation
Anyone interested in speaking at the event should send a 250-word (maximum) proposed abstract, along with a brief biography, to David Prawel at Longview Advisors (dprawel@longviewadvisors.com) by Friday, January 15, 2010.
Conference organizers are looking for presentations from product designers or engineers experienced with collaboration and interoperability technology or processes that:
-- Focus on strategies and/or implementations of real-world applications
-- Help attendees maximize their value of collaboration and
interoperability technology with clear take-aways they can immediately
use
-- Show the cost-effectiveness and/or cost trade-offs of various approaches
or solutions to help attendees make more informed decisions
-- Detail how and why a technology or process worked or didn't work
-- Breaks the status quo of how things are done
Corporate sponsors to date of the 2010 Congress include: CENIT America, CT Core Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Intel, ITI TranscenData, Jotne EPM Technology, Kubotek USA, Lenovo, mental images, Microsoft, Oracle, Parametric Technology Corp., Spatial, Technigraphics and Theorem Solutions.
LOVELAND, Colo - Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today announced its official call for speakers for the 2010 event to be held May 3 to 5 in Estes Park, Colorado.
Now in its sixth year, the annual CIC brings together experts and executives from a wide range of discrete manufacturing industries, as well as representatives from government and defense communities, to discuss the latest issues in collaboration and interoperability. The two-day meeting of international professionals explores the current challenges and opportunities of sharing design data and bridging the divides within the product development process.
Conference organizers are looking for presentations related to the following topics:
-- Digital Product Data Deployment Beyond Engineering
-- Analysis/Simulation and Manufacturing Interoperability
-- Data Migration & Legacy Data Management
-- PDM Interoperability & PLCS
-- Collaboration & Interoperability Technology and Implementation
Anyone interested in speaking at the event should send a 250-word (maximum) proposed abstract, along with a brief biography, to David Prawel at Longview Advisors (dprawel@longviewadvisors.com) by Friday, January 15, 2010.
Conference organizers are looking for presentations from product designers or engineers experienced with collaboration and interoperability technology or processes that:
-- Focus on strategies and/or implementations of real-world applications
-- Help attendees maximize their value of collaboration and
interoperability technology with clear take-aways they can immediately
use
-- Show the cost-effectiveness and/or cost trade-offs of various approaches
or solutions to help attendees make more informed decisions
-- Detail how and why a technology or process worked or didn't work
-- Breaks the status quo of how things are done
Corporate sponsors to date of the 2010 Congress include: CENIT America, CT Core Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Intel, ITI TranscenData, Jotne EPM Technology, Kubotek USA, Lenovo, mental images, Microsoft, Oracle, Parametric Technology Corp., Spatial, Technigraphics and Theorem Solutions.
Delcam to launch Solid Doctor for data repair at Euromold
Delcam will launch the Solid Doctor for the repair of CAD models at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt from 2nd to 5th December. Solid Doctor will be available as part of the new releases of Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD software and the CopyCAD Pro reverse engineering program. Both programs will incorporate Parasolid® software, the industry-leading geometric modelling component from Siemens PLM Software.
The addition of Parasolid, together with Delcam’s existing tools, allows the Solid Doctor to read in and repair models from all sources, including IGES and native CATIA files, and output a Parasolid XT file that can be read directly into all software based on Parasolid, including IronCAD, SolidWorks, TopSolid, T-Flex and VisiCAD, as well as Siemens PLM Software’s own Solid Edge® software and NXTM software products.
The Solid Doctor is a major step towards true interoperability with many popular CAD systems. Parasolid is the component modelling engine on which more CAD systems are based than any other, while others such as Autodesk’s Inventor and PTC’s Pro/Engineer, have import/export filters for the Parasolid native XT file format. As such, once a valid Parasolid model has been created, these systems can exchange the data without translation and the inherent further re-work such translation entails.
With the Solid Doctor, users will be able to tackle all the common problems that can be found when translating low precision and incomplete data, including gaps and overlaps between surfaces, or duplicated and missing surfaces, and generate a valid, high-precision Parasolid model.
The Solid Doctor uses the automatic data repair tools that are provided as part of Parasolid, together with the surface creation and editing options that are available from PowerSHAPE. This combination means that simple repairs can be carried out quickly and easily, while more complex problems can be overcome by deleting and replacing the existing surfaces within the model.
The first stage in using the Solid Doctor is to analyse the model using the Parasolid checking mechanisms, to determine the extent of any inconsistency issues in topology or geometry when the data is examined with the high levels of precision of Parasolid. Solid Doctor divides these issues into separate categories and labels the model. For each category or class of inconsistency, Solid Doctor recommends the most appropriate course of action, including a possible automatic fix.
The user then applies the automated repair sequence. This uses a combination of the healing technology in Parasolid, plus some extra Delcam tools, for example, to correct surfaces that have had their orientation reversed. These automated tools are typically different for each class of inconsistency, as experience has shown that what is effective in one case does not necessarily work for another. Each corrected issue has its label changed from red to green as it is repaired. The repairs can be inspected individually to ensure that the results are as required or the whole model can be checked again to highlight any further inconsistencies.
The second repair stage involves using Delcam’s unique trim region editing tools to correct larger issues that require manual repair by a skilled user, such as mismatches between the edges of the various surfaces within the model. These include direct editing options for the trim boundaries, which allow very quick and flexible adjustment of the surface edges to overcome errors in the model.
For the more serious problems that remain, it will usually be necessary to generate replacement surfaces in the affected area. This can be done easily using PowerSHAPE’s Smart Surfacing technology. The user simply deletes the existing surfaces and sketches around the area to be repaired. PowerSHAPE will then analyse the boundary and suggest the most appropriate type of surface to fill the space. Tangency can be maintained with the surrounding surfaces if required. If the user is not happy with the initial selection made by the software, he can run through alternative solutions until he is satisfied with the result.
Once the user is happy with the quality of the repaired surfaces, they are automatically incorporated back into the Parasolid model. This process continues until all the inconsistencies have been resolved and a valid Parasolid model created. By giving the user total control over how the part is repaired, even very poor quality or badly damaged data can be repaired quickly and efficiently to create a valid Parasolid model.
Despite the many improvements made in data translation in recent years, it still remains a multi-million dollar problem for manufacturers that need to pass CAD data up and down a supply chain. Delcam’s Solid Doctor will provide a quick and easy solution to this problem and so allow faster and more efficient new product development.
The addition of Parasolid, together with Delcam’s existing tools, allows the Solid Doctor to read in and repair models from all sources, including IGES and native CATIA files, and output a Parasolid XT file that can be read directly into all software based on Parasolid, including IronCAD, SolidWorks, TopSolid, T-Flex and VisiCAD, as well as Siemens PLM Software’s own Solid Edge® software and NXTM software products.
The Solid Doctor is a major step towards true interoperability with many popular CAD systems. Parasolid is the component modelling engine on which more CAD systems are based than any other, while others such as Autodesk’s Inventor and PTC’s Pro/Engineer, have import/export filters for the Parasolid native XT file format. As such, once a valid Parasolid model has been created, these systems can exchange the data without translation and the inherent further re-work such translation entails.
With the Solid Doctor, users will be able to tackle all the common problems that can be found when translating low precision and incomplete data, including gaps and overlaps between surfaces, or duplicated and missing surfaces, and generate a valid, high-precision Parasolid model.
The Solid Doctor uses the automatic data repair tools that are provided as part of Parasolid, together with the surface creation and editing options that are available from PowerSHAPE. This combination means that simple repairs can be carried out quickly and easily, while more complex problems can be overcome by deleting and replacing the existing surfaces within the model.
The first stage in using the Solid Doctor is to analyse the model using the Parasolid checking mechanisms, to determine the extent of any inconsistency issues in topology or geometry when the data is examined with the high levels of precision of Parasolid. Solid Doctor divides these issues into separate categories and labels the model. For each category or class of inconsistency, Solid Doctor recommends the most appropriate course of action, including a possible automatic fix.
The user then applies the automated repair sequence. This uses a combination of the healing technology in Parasolid, plus some extra Delcam tools, for example, to correct surfaces that have had their orientation reversed. These automated tools are typically different for each class of inconsistency, as experience has shown that what is effective in one case does not necessarily work for another. Each corrected issue has its label changed from red to green as it is repaired. The repairs can be inspected individually to ensure that the results are as required or the whole model can be checked again to highlight any further inconsistencies.
The second repair stage involves using Delcam’s unique trim region editing tools to correct larger issues that require manual repair by a skilled user, such as mismatches between the edges of the various surfaces within the model. These include direct editing options for the trim boundaries, which allow very quick and flexible adjustment of the surface edges to overcome errors in the model.
For the more serious problems that remain, it will usually be necessary to generate replacement surfaces in the affected area. This can be done easily using PowerSHAPE’s Smart Surfacing technology. The user simply deletes the existing surfaces and sketches around the area to be repaired. PowerSHAPE will then analyse the boundary and suggest the most appropriate type of surface to fill the space. Tangency can be maintained with the surrounding surfaces if required. If the user is not happy with the initial selection made by the software, he can run through alternative solutions until he is satisfied with the result.
Once the user is happy with the quality of the repaired surfaces, they are automatically incorporated back into the Parasolid model. This process continues until all the inconsistencies have been resolved and a valid Parasolid model created. By giving the user total control over how the part is repaired, even very poor quality or badly damaged data can be repaired quickly and efficiently to create a valid Parasolid model.
Despite the many improvements made in data translation in recent years, it still remains a multi-million dollar problem for manufacturers that need to pass CAD data up and down a supply chain. Delcam’s Solid Doctor will provide a quick and easy solution to this problem and so allow faster and more efficient new product development.
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1st Pricing's 5D BIM Pricing Plug-in for AutoCAD Revit Architecture 2010 released
Signal Hill, CA - 1st Pricing, a Southern California-based eCommerce and Technology Company, has announced that they have completed and will release a plug-in that links their revolutionary 5D Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to AutoCAD® Revit® Architecture 2010 - just in time for Autodesk University in Las Vegas this week - it will be made available for download on Thursday. This is the first technology to fully integrate BIM into the design process - one that automatically creates a detailed bill of materials with pricing and an online shopping cart - called "5e" by the Company. 1st Pricing has created a standardized platform that seamlessly links to CAD programs and eCommerce portals with supplier or distributor prices. This allows the purchase of "specified" materials online.
"We are excited to debut the plug-in at Autodesk University this week in Las Vegas. The 1st Pricing plug-in allows architects and designers to access real-world, commercially available products in their designs. The plug-in automatically accesses external databases for product detail - from availability to line item pricing to performance ratings - even "Green" ratings. You can even access design details and elements without opening the CAD program - it is all available online for everyone involved in the building process." said Douglas Lopez, Founder of 1st Pricing and a licensed general contractor. "No longer do plans need to be interpreted nor does the architect need to be bothered with trivial questions. 1st Pricing can show which brands are available in a given zip code so a manufacturer can be specified on the plans. We can identify "Green" building materials to encourage and simplify sustainable building practices. It is a search engine specifically designed for CAD." 1st Pricing provides precise detail to all downstream consumers of the information and provides the decision maker detailed information in order for them to make better, more informed decisions.
With the click of a button, the 1st Pricing technology accesses multiple external databases through an internet portal and can pull the brands that are available in the region. Additionally it can provide "Green" information, Energy ratings, RFID or provide comparison pricing of multiple brands to fill out a detailed bill of materials with all related content on demand making for easy fulfillment from a local building material distributor. Changes and updates are made within seconds so that everyone is on the same page. In the CAD industry, the supply chain component is often referred to as the "fifth dimension of CAD" or "5D" or, in the case of 1st Pricing technology, "5e" for eCommerce using the best practices of 5D. When you create a bill of materials using the patented 1st Pricing technology, you also create an online shopping cart available for everyone involved in the project to see." This is an aspect of the BIM world that no one else has delivered...we have been doing it since 2003. We build a better list, give you actual prices and allow you to purchase your specified products online at great prices."
"We provide critical product data in seconds from simple availability to real, line-item prices - data that often takes weeks to generate." adds Lopez. "We take theory out of the design process and we are empowering the homeowner and their contractor with a number of popular product choices including delivered-to-the-jobsite pricing and no one has to recreate the data."
Today, the Company is focused on building materials for residential construction but plans to add commercial building products. In the near future, 1st Pricing expects to provide pricing on virtually every building product used in residential construction while bridging the gap for subcontractors by including labor quotes.
"We are excited to debut the plug-in at Autodesk University this week in Las Vegas. The 1st Pricing plug-in allows architects and designers to access real-world, commercially available products in their designs. The plug-in automatically accesses external databases for product detail - from availability to line item pricing to performance ratings - even "Green" ratings. You can even access design details and elements without opening the CAD program - it is all available online for everyone involved in the building process." said Douglas Lopez, Founder of 1st Pricing and a licensed general contractor. "No longer do plans need to be interpreted nor does the architect need to be bothered with trivial questions. 1st Pricing can show which brands are available in a given zip code so a manufacturer can be specified on the plans. We can identify "Green" building materials to encourage and simplify sustainable building practices. It is a search engine specifically designed for CAD." 1st Pricing provides precise detail to all downstream consumers of the information and provides the decision maker detailed information in order for them to make better, more informed decisions.
With the click of a button, the 1st Pricing technology accesses multiple external databases through an internet portal and can pull the brands that are available in the region. Additionally it can provide "Green" information, Energy ratings, RFID or provide comparison pricing of multiple brands to fill out a detailed bill of materials with all related content on demand making for easy fulfillment from a local building material distributor. Changes and updates are made within seconds so that everyone is on the same page. In the CAD industry, the supply chain component is often referred to as the "fifth dimension of CAD" or "5D" or, in the case of 1st Pricing technology, "5e" for eCommerce using the best practices of 5D. When you create a bill of materials using the patented 1st Pricing technology, you also create an online shopping cart available for everyone involved in the project to see." This is an aspect of the BIM world that no one else has delivered...we have been doing it since 2003. We build a better list, give you actual prices and allow you to purchase your specified products online at great prices."
"We provide critical product data in seconds from simple availability to real, line-item prices - data that often takes weeks to generate." adds Lopez. "We take theory out of the design process and we are empowering the homeowner and their contractor with a number of popular product choices including delivered-to-the-jobsite pricing and no one has to recreate the data."
Today, the Company is focused on building materials for residential construction but plans to add commercial building products. In the near future, 1st Pricing expects to provide pricing on virtually every building product used in residential construction while bridging the gap for subcontractors by including labor quotes.
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LECTRA : Induyco opposes to the payment of the award rendered by the international arbitral tribunal
PARIS - On October 28, 2009, the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration notified an award to Lectra and Induyco in an arbitration initiated by Lectra in 2005 against Induyco, the former shareholder of Investrónica Sistemas. The arbitration arose out of Lectra's acquisition of Investrónica Sistemas in 2004. In the award, the international arbitral tribunal awarded Lectra EUR 21.9 million plus interest.
Following notification of the award, Lectra called on two first demand guarantees that were provided by Induyco pursuant to the terms of the share purchase agreement and requested Induyco to pay the full amount of the award plus interest.
Induyco has since obtained in Spain an interim order temporarily suspending operation of the demand guarantees based on a claim that Lectra must recognize and enforce the award in Spain before it can recover any amounts under the guarantees. Induyco has also taken steps in England (where the arbitration took place) to challenge the award. Lectra has not yet been served with a copy of the writ and claim in either the English or Spanish court actions on the merits.
Lectra considers both court actions to be entirely without merit and intends to mount an aggressive and vigorous defense of its rights and recovery of the amounts due to it under the award.
With nearly 1,500 employees worldwide, Lectra is the world leader in software, CAD/CAM equipment and related services specially created for large-scale users of textiles, leather and industrial fabrics. Lectra serves a broad array of major global markets including the fashion (apparel, accessories, and footwear), automotive (car seats and interiors, airbags), and furniture industries, as well as a wide variety of other sectors, such as the aeronautical and marine industries, wind energy, etc.
Following notification of the award, Lectra called on two first demand guarantees that were provided by Induyco pursuant to the terms of the share purchase agreement and requested Induyco to pay the full amount of the award plus interest.
Induyco has since obtained in Spain an interim order temporarily suspending operation of the demand guarantees based on a claim that Lectra must recognize and enforce the award in Spain before it can recover any amounts under the guarantees. Induyco has also taken steps in England (where the arbitration took place) to challenge the award. Lectra has not yet been served with a copy of the writ and claim in either the English or Spanish court actions on the merits.
Lectra considers both court actions to be entirely without merit and intends to mount an aggressive and vigorous defense of its rights and recovery of the amounts due to it under the award.
With nearly 1,500 employees worldwide, Lectra is the world leader in software, CAD/CAM equipment and related services specially created for large-scale users of textiles, leather and industrial fabrics. Lectra serves a broad array of major global markets including the fashion (apparel, accessories, and footwear), automotive (car seats and interiors, airbags), and furniture industries, as well as a wide variety of other sectors, such as the aeronautical and marine industries, wind energy, etc.
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Microdesk expands Corporate Headquarters
Nashua, NH – Architecture, engineering and construction industry technology consultant, Microdesk, Inc., has expanded their corporate headquarters. The new space features state-of-the-art training facilities, increased office space, and provides convenient access from major highways.
Located at 10 Tara Boulevard in Nashua, NH, the new facility resides in the same building as the previous corporate headquarters, but now combines the Bedford, NH staff and operations in an expanded space.
“The decision to expand our corporate headquarters and consolidate our Nashua and Bedford offices was a strategic one,” said Michael DeLacey, President of Microdesk. “This allows us to increase our training offerings, expand our technical and sales support, and provides our customers easier access to all of our services.”
The new office is one of four serving the Northeast region. Microdesk has seven additional offices in locations serving the rest of the country.
Microdesk provides business process, BIM, CAD, GIS and FM software and consulting to the architectural, engineering, construction, GIS, and facility operations industries. Its services also include commercial-level desktop and web-based software development for design automation, geographical information systems and building facilities management.
Located at 10 Tara Boulevard in Nashua, NH, the new facility resides in the same building as the previous corporate headquarters, but now combines the Bedford, NH staff and operations in an expanded space.
“The decision to expand our corporate headquarters and consolidate our Nashua and Bedford offices was a strategic one,” said Michael DeLacey, President of Microdesk. “This allows us to increase our training offerings, expand our technical and sales support, and provides our customers easier access to all of our services.”
The new office is one of four serving the Northeast region. Microdesk has seven additional offices in locations serving the rest of the country.
Microdesk provides business process, BIM, CAD, GIS and FM software and consulting to the architectural, engineering, construction, GIS, and facility operations industries. Its services also include commercial-level desktop and web-based software development for design automation, geographical information systems and building facilities management.
SolidWorks Customer BUB Racing sets the motorcycle world land speed record
367.382 mph in a Two-Wheeled Missile.
CONCORD, Mass - Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) customer Denis Manning and his BUB Enterprises racing team have set the motorcycle world land speed record, recapturing a title Manning has now held three times since 1970.
The missile-shaped motorcycle, designed in SolidWorks® CAD software and optimized in SolidWorks Simulation software, broke the previous record by a margin of more than 8 mph. Piloted by Chris Carr, the BUB Racing Streamliner officially clocked in at 367.382 mph on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 over a measured mile at the hallowed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
“The last thing we did before the run was make an eighth-inch change to the aerodynamics, and that made all the difference,” said Manning, CEO of BUB Enterprises. “The data was telling us the nose was trying to dive, so we raised it up and it worked. Our new alcohol-fueled V4 engine put the record within reach.”
Manning set his first motorcycle land speed record in 1970, and his team has since traded the record with opponents. As his Streamliner designs grew increasingly sophisticated, the BUB team realized it needed to use advanced mechanical design, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to stay ahead of its competitors.
“Until recently, going really fast basically required money,” Manning explains. “Breaking the record used to be pretty much, ‘Gentlemen, start your checkbook.’ Now it’s, ‘Gentlemen, start your gray matter.’ The designs that have a legitimate shot at speeds over 350 mph require a whole new level of engineering know-how and technology like SolidWorks helps deliver. CAD is our virtual prototyper, and Simulation is our crystal ball.”
BUB selected SolidWorks because it helps the team easily transform ideas into reality and successfully confront its steepest technical challenges. “SolidWorks software helped lower the bar for us to accomplish this record,” said Manning. “Because of the design and simulation tools, we no longer had to build and smash the bike a few times, or blow an engine, before we were ready for a record attempt. We knew the numbers, we knew how to do this, and we set the record again.”
BUB also uses SolidWorks, including its Flow Simulation software, to design and analyze its BUB commercial exhaust systems. BUB Enterprises relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller GoEngineer for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.
CONCORD, Mass - Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) customer Denis Manning and his BUB Enterprises racing team have set the motorcycle world land speed record, recapturing a title Manning has now held three times since 1970.
The missile-shaped motorcycle, designed in SolidWorks® CAD software and optimized in SolidWorks Simulation software, broke the previous record by a margin of more than 8 mph. Piloted by Chris Carr, the BUB Racing Streamliner officially clocked in at 367.382 mph on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 over a measured mile at the hallowed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
“The last thing we did before the run was make an eighth-inch change to the aerodynamics, and that made all the difference,” said Manning, CEO of BUB Enterprises. “The data was telling us the nose was trying to dive, so we raised it up and it worked. Our new alcohol-fueled V4 engine put the record within reach.”
Manning set his first motorcycle land speed record in 1970, and his team has since traded the record with opponents. As his Streamliner designs grew increasingly sophisticated, the BUB team realized it needed to use advanced mechanical design, simulation, and manufacturing technologies to stay ahead of its competitors.
“Until recently, going really fast basically required money,” Manning explains. “Breaking the record used to be pretty much, ‘Gentlemen, start your checkbook.’ Now it’s, ‘Gentlemen, start your gray matter.’ The designs that have a legitimate shot at speeds over 350 mph require a whole new level of engineering know-how and technology like SolidWorks helps deliver. CAD is our virtual prototyper, and Simulation is our crystal ball.”
BUB selected SolidWorks because it helps the team easily transform ideas into reality and successfully confront its steepest technical challenges. “SolidWorks software helped lower the bar for us to accomplish this record,” said Manning. “Because of the design and simulation tools, we no longer had to build and smash the bike a few times, or blow an engine, before we were ready for a record attempt. We knew the numbers, we knew how to do this, and we set the record again.”
BUB also uses SolidWorks, including its Flow Simulation software, to design and analyze its BUB commercial exhaust systems. BUB Enterprises relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller GoEngineer for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.
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Informatix releases the free Google SketchUp & SketchUp Pro Ruby Script along with a new pricing policy for Piranesi
Cambridge, UK – Informatix Software International, a global provider of CAD software solutions, today announces the availability of the free Prianesi Google SketchUp ruby script along with a new concurrent pricing structure for the Piranesi product to ease the cost of software ownership.
The free ruby script for SketchUp enables users to export their models created in either the free or Pro versions into Piranesi, the leading artist impression tool on the market, and create artist impressions of the model.
The script itself allows the user to export the model from SketchUp to the EPix file format, where they can quickly convert rigid, hard-edged models into a softer, expressive artist’s impression. Piranesi v5.1 is more than just a painting tool – it is a graphical persuader that excels at turning conceptual 2D and 3D models into wonderfully atmospheric, stylised and persuasive visualisations.
“The popularity of Google SketchUp within the architect and designer community makes it the perfect partner to Piranesi. Both products complement each other with their designer friendly user interfaces and there is no doubt that with the combined capabilities of SketchUp and Piranesi designers will be winning more projects and awards for their presentation alone.” Steve Evans, managing director of Informatix Software International
Piranesi’s unique ability to generate stylish illustrations with a truly hand-painted feel sets it apart from other visualisation tools. At the later stages of the project, after initial concepts have been approved, Piranesi can again be used to produce an artist impression of the finished visuals for distribution to all parties involved, or for competition submission.
Pricing and Availability
To support the use of the free SketchUp ruby script Informatix are also announcing a concurrent licensing model for Piranesi v5.1 which comes into effect today.
Prices start at £200+VAT with the additional option to purchase unlimited concurrent user licenses on a per site basis on an annual subscription or over a 3 year period. Costs include support, maintenance and upgrades throughout the subscription period.
“ The concurrent licensing model allows architect and designer practices to achieve more from their software investment. By offering them this solution they are able to get a quicker return on their software investment, especially when they opt for the free version of SketchUp. For example, a practice with 100 architects may only need to buy 10 licenses, but this gives everyone in the practice the ability to use the software as and when they need it.” Paul Lloyd, global operations director at Informatix Software International.
The ruby script is available to download immediately
The free ruby script for SketchUp enables users to export their models created in either the free or Pro versions into Piranesi, the leading artist impression tool on the market, and create artist impressions of the model.
The script itself allows the user to export the model from SketchUp to the EPix file format, where they can quickly convert rigid, hard-edged models into a softer, expressive artist’s impression. Piranesi v5.1 is more than just a painting tool – it is a graphical persuader that excels at turning conceptual 2D and 3D models into wonderfully atmospheric, stylised and persuasive visualisations.
“The popularity of Google SketchUp within the architect and designer community makes it the perfect partner to Piranesi. Both products complement each other with their designer friendly user interfaces and there is no doubt that with the combined capabilities of SketchUp and Piranesi designers will be winning more projects and awards for their presentation alone.” Steve Evans, managing director of Informatix Software International
Piranesi’s unique ability to generate stylish illustrations with a truly hand-painted feel sets it apart from other visualisation tools. At the later stages of the project, after initial concepts have been approved, Piranesi can again be used to produce an artist impression of the finished visuals for distribution to all parties involved, or for competition submission.
Pricing and Availability
To support the use of the free SketchUp ruby script Informatix are also announcing a concurrent licensing model for Piranesi v5.1 which comes into effect today.
Prices start at £200+VAT with the additional option to purchase unlimited concurrent user licenses on a per site basis on an annual subscription or over a 3 year period. Costs include support, maintenance and upgrades throughout the subscription period.
“ The concurrent licensing model allows architect and designer practices to achieve more from their software investment. By offering them this solution they are able to get a quicker return on their software investment, especially when they opt for the free version of SketchUp. For example, a practice with 100 architects may only need to buy 10 licenses, but this gives everyone in the practice the ability to use the software as and when they need it.” Paul Lloyd, global operations director at Informatix Software International.
The ruby script is available to download immediately
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INUS Technology to Present Latest Rapidform Scanning Solutions at EuroMold 2009
Seoul, South Korea - INUS Technology, Inc, the developer of Rapidform® 3D scanning software, announced that it will demonstrate the latest Rapidform innovations in 3D scanning software at EuroMold 2009 from December 2nd to 5th in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The INUS booth will be located at Hall 8 / Stand F11. INUS Technology continues its campaign to offer point processing with seamless CAD-compatibility.
INUS Technology will present the only 3rd Generation (3G) reverse engineering software, XOR/Redesign™, taking scan data into CAD in less time and with higher, provable accuracy. For inspection, Rapidform will highlight the newly released XOV/Verifier™, the fully CAD compatible inspection tool that supports both scanning and probing, with full GD&T capabilities. Also on display will be InspectWorks™, Rapidform's SolidWorks plug-in, the 2G verbatim modeler XOS/Scan™ and Rapidform Explorer™, a free viewer for 3D scan data. And for the first time, INUS plans to co-exhibit with the Technical University Darmstadt DART-Racing Team .
The DART team will be showing their Gamma race car, which was developed with the help of Rapidform. A variety of 3D scanners will also be on display. INUS invites visitors to bring reverse engineering and inspection questions, and to explore Rapidform's solutions for 3D scanning.
Calvin J. Hur, senior vice president of marketing & global sales said, "In the year since the last EuroMold exposition in 2008, Rapidform has continued to advance. With new functionality and automation, Rapidform XOR2, XOS2 and XOV2 are changing the way that 3D scanning works for our customers, and accelerating the adoption of scanning for inspection and modeling." He continued, "Visitors to EuroMold 2009 will see for themselves the productivity gains they can enjoy by using the Rapidform innovations we'll be showcasing."
INUS Technology will present the only 3rd Generation (3G) reverse engineering software, XOR/Redesign™, taking scan data into CAD in less time and with higher, provable accuracy. For inspection, Rapidform will highlight the newly released XOV/Verifier™, the fully CAD compatible inspection tool that supports both scanning and probing, with full GD&T capabilities. Also on display will be InspectWorks™, Rapidform's SolidWorks plug-in, the 2G verbatim modeler XOS/Scan™ and Rapidform Explorer™, a free viewer for 3D scan data. And for the first time, INUS plans to co-exhibit with the Technical University Darmstadt DART-Racing Team .
The DART team will be showing their Gamma race car, which was developed with the help of Rapidform. A variety of 3D scanners will also be on display. INUS invites visitors to bring reverse engineering and inspection questions, and to explore Rapidform's solutions for 3D scanning.
Calvin J. Hur, senior vice president of marketing & global sales said, "In the year since the last EuroMold exposition in 2008, Rapidform has continued to advance. With new functionality and automation, Rapidform XOR2, XOS2 and XOV2 are changing the way that 3D scanning works for our customers, and accelerating the adoption of scanning for inspection and modeling." He continued, "Visitors to EuroMold 2009 will see for themselves the productivity gains they can enjoy by using the Rapidform innovations we'll be showcasing."
AVEVA solutions finds increasing demand from China's power industries
Beijing, China: AVEVA has announced multiple wins from China's power industry reflecting robustness of the sector and Chinese companies' appetite for AVEVA Plant and AVEVA NET, AVEVA's Engineering & Design and Lifecycle Management solutions.
"There is great demand for energy to power China's economy. As AVEVA is China's top solutions provider to the power industry, and a majority of the Electrical Power Plant Design Institutes subscribe to our solutions, we can cooperate easily in a unified approach, unifying standards and sharing a common platform to promote design innovation and optimization, to effectively improve design quality, productivity, and to reduce project cost," Peter Finch, President, AVEVA Asia Pacific said.
The wins, recorded from the beginning of AVEVA's financial year in April, came mostly from Class A Certified Chinese Electrical Power Plant Design Institutes, of which 85% subscribe to AVEVA solutions. They include Northeast Electric Power Design Institute, Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute, Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute and Inner-Mongolia Electric Power Survey & Design Institute. Other power companies renewing their investments in AVEVA Plant include are Beijing Bootes Electric Power Sci-Tech, China Huadian Engineering and China Nuclear Power Design Company (Shenzhen).
"An exciting development for us comes from the nuclear sector as there are plans to increase the installed capacity of nuclear power plants from the current 9,000 MW to 60,000 MW by 2020. We have established long term partnerships with China's leading nuclear design companies. One of such, China Nuclear Power Design Company (Shenzhen), recently signed an agreement to subscribe to AVEVA NET, this comes after signing a similar multi-million USD contract last year. AVEVA is looking forward to further enhancing ties with China's conventional and nuclear design sectors," he added.
"There is great demand for energy to power China's economy. As AVEVA is China's top solutions provider to the power industry, and a majority of the Electrical Power Plant Design Institutes subscribe to our solutions, we can cooperate easily in a unified approach, unifying standards and sharing a common platform to promote design innovation and optimization, to effectively improve design quality, productivity, and to reduce project cost," Peter Finch, President, AVEVA Asia Pacific said.
The wins, recorded from the beginning of AVEVA's financial year in April, came mostly from Class A Certified Chinese Electrical Power Plant Design Institutes, of which 85% subscribe to AVEVA solutions. They include Northeast Electric Power Design Institute, Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute, Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute and Inner-Mongolia Electric Power Survey & Design Institute. Other power companies renewing their investments in AVEVA Plant include are Beijing Bootes Electric Power Sci-Tech, China Huadian Engineering and China Nuclear Power Design Company (Shenzhen).
"An exciting development for us comes from the nuclear sector as there are plans to increase the installed capacity of nuclear power plants from the current 9,000 MW to 60,000 MW by 2020. We have established long term partnerships with China's leading nuclear design companies. One of such, China Nuclear Power Design Company (Shenzhen), recently signed an agreement to subscribe to AVEVA NET, this comes after signing a similar multi-million USD contract last year. AVEVA is looking forward to further enhancing ties with China's conventional and nuclear design sectors," he added.
3D Systems Offers New Five Year Print Head Warranty on ProJet™ 3000 Series 3D Printers
ROCK HILL, South Carolina - 3D Systems Corporation , a provider of 3-D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing parts and system solutions, announced today the immediate availability of its new 5 year Print Head Warranty for the ProJet™ 3000 Series of 3D Printing Systems. These systems are on display at EuroMold in Hall 11, location D46.
The ProJet™ Series of 3-D Printers combines the proven performance and reliability of 3D Systems’ patented and proprietary Multi-jet Modeling (MJM) technology with a wide choice of materials that have greatly expanded the uses of high-definition 3-D printing to more users and applications. Today 3D Systems is announcing another major user advantage across this product line, the industry’s first and only five-year manufacturer’s print head warranty. This warranty, now offered on all ProJet 3000 series products, demonstrates 3D Systems’ commitment to improving customers’ bottom line results through enhanced features and performance while continuing to provide a lower overall cost of ownership. Details on this new print head warranty are available through an authorized 3D Systems reseller upon request.
“Our customers rely increasingly on their 3-D Printer for a broad array of critical in-house rapid prototyping and end use parts applications,” said Michele Marchesan vice president sales and marketing 3-D Printing. “Our new five year print head warranty enables our users to create with confidence while maintaining full control over their operating costs. Particularly during a period that requires all of us to do more with less, we are pleased to offer to our customers the continued economical benefits of our technology leadership by providing this unique warranty, another Industry first.”
The ProJet™ Series of 3-D Printers combines the proven performance and reliability of 3D Systems’ patented and proprietary Multi-jet Modeling (MJM) technology with a wide choice of materials that have greatly expanded the uses of high-definition 3-D printing to more users and applications. Today 3D Systems is announcing another major user advantage across this product line, the industry’s first and only five-year manufacturer’s print head warranty. This warranty, now offered on all ProJet 3000 series products, demonstrates 3D Systems’ commitment to improving customers’ bottom line results through enhanced features and performance while continuing to provide a lower overall cost of ownership. Details on this new print head warranty are available through an authorized 3D Systems reseller upon request.
“Our customers rely increasingly on their 3-D Printer for a broad array of critical in-house rapid prototyping and end use parts applications,” said Michele Marchesan vice president sales and marketing 3-D Printing. “Our new five year print head warranty enables our users to create with confidence while maintaining full control over their operating costs. Particularly during a period that requires all of us to do more with less, we are pleased to offer to our customers the continued economical benefits of our technology leadership by providing this unique warranty, another Industry first.”
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NEi Software's Free Webinar - "Introduction to Finite Element Analysis" on December 2nd
NEi Software is holding a free webinar on December 2nd at 10:00am PST to provide an introduction to the finite element process.
An Introduction to Finite Element Analysis
This lecture will provide an introduction to the finite element process. This presentation will show:
• The finite element process through practical examples
• What your results are telling you
• How to avoid common errors in FEA
Presenter: Bart McPheeters, Senior Application Engineer
Bart McPheeters is an expert in Finite Element Analysis with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He holds a Master’s degree in Solid Mechanics. As Senior Application Engineer at NEi Software, he conducts training classes on Finite Element Analysis.
Who should attend?
This course is intended for designers and analysts who are new to finite element analysis, but experienced engineers should find the course instructional and valuable as well. Engineering managers can use this to gain understanding of how finite element analysis can make a difference in their development process.
This course is being provided free of charge.
An Introduction to Finite Element Analysis
This lecture will provide an introduction to the finite element process. This presentation will show:
• The finite element process through practical examples
• What your results are telling you
• How to avoid common errors in FEA
Presenter: Bart McPheeters, Senior Application Engineer
Bart McPheeters is an expert in Finite Element Analysis with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He holds a Master’s degree in Solid Mechanics. As Senior Application Engineer at NEi Software, he conducts training classes on Finite Element Analysis.
Who should attend?
This course is intended for designers and analysts who are new to finite element analysis, but experienced engineers should find the course instructional and valuable as well. Engineering managers can use this to gain understanding of how finite element analysis can make a difference in their development process.
This course is being provided free of charge.
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SYCODE Releases CATIA V4 and V5 File Import Plug-ins for AutoCAD
Panaji, GOA – SYCODE has released CATIA V4 and V5 file import plug-ins for AutoCAD. These plug-ins allow users to import CATIA V4 and V5 part and assembly files into AutoCAD without the need of a CATIA license on the computer or network.
"Over the past few releases Autodesk has been morphing AutoCAD from a 2D drafting and documentation solution to a 3D modeling and analysis one,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "However, for AutoCAD customers to fully harness the power of 3D they not only need to be able to create 3D models from scratch in AutoCAD but also be able to edit 3D solid models created in other CAD systems. CATIA is widely used in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding and related industries. We believe our CATIA V4 and V5 import plug-ins for AutoCAD will go a long way in helping AutoCAD users exchange data effectively with CATIA users by not having to rely on neutral file formats for data exchange.”
The plug-ins released today are called CATIA V4 Import for AutoCAD and CATIA V5 Import for AutoCAD. The V4 plug-in can read CATIA V4 part and assembly (.model), export (.exp) and session (.session) files from CATIA 4.1.9 to CATIA 4.2.4. The V5 plug-in can read CATIA V5 part (.CATPart), assembly (.CATProduct) and graphics (.cgr) files from CATIA V5 R2 to CATIA V5 R19. The plug-ins are powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in these plug-ins. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. The plug-ins also create detailed log files which are extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aid in locating and fixing errors.
The plug-ins work with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. They come with installers and detailed documentation in the form of compiled HTML help files which contains step-by-step tutorials to get end users started in the shortest possible time.
"Over the past few releases Autodesk has been morphing AutoCAD from a 2D drafting and documentation solution to a 3D modeling and analysis one,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "However, for AutoCAD customers to fully harness the power of 3D they not only need to be able to create 3D models from scratch in AutoCAD but also be able to edit 3D solid models created in other CAD systems. CATIA is widely used in the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding and related industries. We believe our CATIA V4 and V5 import plug-ins for AutoCAD will go a long way in helping AutoCAD users exchange data effectively with CATIA users by not having to rely on neutral file formats for data exchange.”
The plug-ins released today are called CATIA V4 Import for AutoCAD and CATIA V5 Import for AutoCAD. The V4 plug-in can read CATIA V4 part and assembly (.model), export (.exp) and session (.session) files from CATIA 4.1.9 to CATIA 4.2.4. The V5 plug-in can read CATIA V5 part (.CATPart), assembly (.CATProduct) and graphics (.cgr) files from CATIA V5 R2 to CATIA V5 R19. The plug-ins are powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in these plug-ins. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. The plug-ins also create detailed log files which are extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aid in locating and fixing errors.
The plug-ins work with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. They come with installers and detailed documentation in the form of compiled HTML help files which contains step-by-step tutorials to get end users started in the shortest possible time.
Delcam to launch latest orthotics CADCAM in Orlando
Delcam will launch new versions of its OrthoModel and OrthoMill software for, respectively, the design and manufacture of custom orthotic insoles at the Science & Management Symposium of the Florida Podiatric Medical Association to be held in Orlando from 20th to 23rd January. The 2010 versions of the programs include enhancements that will enable the design of a broader range of orthotics and more efficient manufacture of those designs.
Delcam’s software helps to increase productivity, profitability and patient satisfaction, both for those prescribing or manufacturing custom devices to help diabetic or rheumatoid patients, and for practitioners working to correct abnormalities caused by a biomechanical miss-alignment of the musco-skeletal system.
Delcam has coupled its 30 years of experience in the design and manufacture of complex free-form shapes for the aerospace and automotive sector with knowledge and expertise from a panel of orthopaedic, podiatric and orthotics experts to create a digital solution for foot-care specialists. The software has been developed in association with laboratories, podiatrists and orthotists from around the world, together with the knowledge of footwear design and manufacture that has been gained within Delcam from its relationships with leading brands such as Nike and Reebok. It replaces the expensive, slow and messy casting process with a simple, non-contact digital solution.
The new OrthoModel options will give more flexibility, including the ability to create flat-bottom orthotics as well as constant-thickness designs across the various modelling methods. In addition, users can add "skive” (a flat correcting surface) to either the medial and lateral side of the orthotic and can vary the angle of the plane. Previously, the software was limited to a 15 degree plane on the medial side of the design.
More functions have been added to adapt for individual patients the range of standard base models supplied with the software. The extra morphing tools allow whole-model editing of the standard designs so that the desired modifications can be completed quickly and easily.
A range of measurement tools have been added so the distances can be determined more quickly between the different key points within the orthotic. For example, foot dimensions can be extracted from Sharp Shape scans, including the heel point, and first and fifth metatarsal points, as well as the heel width, forefoot width and foot length. In addition, undercut shading has been added to help with arch height selection, while dynamic sectioning gives the ability to use front or rear section planes to view and take measurements from a cross section of the model.
The most significant addition in OrthoMill is the ability to "batch” machining calculations. This allows the operator to input designs for a number of orthotics, either to be cut from a single block or from several pieces of material. The software can then generate all the required toolpaths in a continuous series of calculations. The process can even be carried out overnight, to give maximum productivity for the programmer.
A related change is the option to apply different machining templates to each of a group of orthotics that will be cut from one block of material in a single manufacturing sequence. The templates provide the automated machining routines for the orthotics. Previously, all items produced in one operation had to use the same template, which reduced the overall machining efficiency. Extra flexibility has also been added with the ability to vary the Z-heights of each item within the block, and to vary the size and the number of machining tabs for each orthotic.
In addition, set-up sheets can now be generated showing the layout of the orthotics within the block, together with the patient information for each device. This will be especially helpful in cases where the manufacturing is being carried out by a different technician from the programming.
Delcam’s software helps to increase productivity, profitability and patient satisfaction, both for those prescribing or manufacturing custom devices to help diabetic or rheumatoid patients, and for practitioners working to correct abnormalities caused by a biomechanical miss-alignment of the musco-skeletal system.
Delcam has coupled its 30 years of experience in the design and manufacture of complex free-form shapes for the aerospace and automotive sector with knowledge and expertise from a panel of orthopaedic, podiatric and orthotics experts to create a digital solution for foot-care specialists. The software has been developed in association with laboratories, podiatrists and orthotists from around the world, together with the knowledge of footwear design and manufacture that has been gained within Delcam from its relationships with leading brands such as Nike and Reebok. It replaces the expensive, slow and messy casting process with a simple, non-contact digital solution.
The new OrthoModel options will give more flexibility, including the ability to create flat-bottom orthotics as well as constant-thickness designs across the various modelling methods. In addition, users can add "skive” (a flat correcting surface) to either the medial and lateral side of the orthotic and can vary the angle of the plane. Previously, the software was limited to a 15 degree plane on the medial side of the design.
More functions have been added to adapt for individual patients the range of standard base models supplied with the software. The extra morphing tools allow whole-model editing of the standard designs so that the desired modifications can be completed quickly and easily.
A range of measurement tools have been added so the distances can be determined more quickly between the different key points within the orthotic. For example, foot dimensions can be extracted from Sharp Shape scans, including the heel point, and first and fifth metatarsal points, as well as the heel width, forefoot width and foot length. In addition, undercut shading has been added to help with arch height selection, while dynamic sectioning gives the ability to use front or rear section planes to view and take measurements from a cross section of the model.
The most significant addition in OrthoMill is the ability to "batch” machining calculations. This allows the operator to input designs for a number of orthotics, either to be cut from a single block or from several pieces of material. The software can then generate all the required toolpaths in a continuous series of calculations. The process can even be carried out overnight, to give maximum productivity for the programmer.
A related change is the option to apply different machining templates to each of a group of orthotics that will be cut from one block of material in a single manufacturing sequence. The templates provide the automated machining routines for the orthotics. Previously, all items produced in one operation had to use the same template, which reduced the overall machining efficiency. Extra flexibility has also been added with the ability to vary the Z-heights of each item within the block, and to vary the size and the number of machining tabs for each orthotic.
In addition, set-up sheets can now be generated showing the layout of the orthotics within the block, together with the patient information for each device. This will be especially helpful in cases where the manufacturing is being carried out by a different technician from the programming.
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Neilsoft and Barton Willmore to offer sustainable Masterplanning & Design services in India
Barton Willmore, a leading British planning and urban design consultancy, has formed a partnership with Indian architectural and engineering services company Neilsoft in order to assist with the delivery of sustainable development throughout India.
Barton Willmore will contribute extensive masterplanning and urban design experience in international markets to the collaboration, with particular emphasis on new settlements, urban renewal and extensions, mixed use planning and public realm design – which will be known as Bwi:Neilsoft.
Neilsoft contributes multi-disciplinary technical expertise, local knowledge of practices & culture, infrastructure & transportation planning, and ability to handle large project documentation volumes.
Nick Sweet, project director and Partner at Barton Willmore’s London office commented: “We are very excited about the prospect of extending our established working relationship with Neilsoft. Through this new partnership we are able to combine a wealth of expertise and knowledge for the benefit of our clients. The partnership also extends our ideas about sustainable development, particularly through working with local experts. This deepens our understanding of a place and its people and promotes reinvestment in local economies.”
“India is developing rapidly and Barton Willmore is looking to bring the experience gained in the UK as well as regions such as China, Russia and the Middle East to this exciting market.”
Mr. Ketan Bakshi, Managing Director of Neilsoft said “The Bwi:Neilsoft cooperation will result in a choice that brings fresh thinking, speed, scale, integrated engineering infrastructure thinking, and extraordinary concepts in masterplanning to the fore”. He continued “Barton Willmore’s experience and work speaks for itself and it stands out. Developers and Township Planners will recognize the value and marketability of their work and commission us to develop sustainable masterplans & designs which truly stand out.”
Neilsoft and Barton Willmore International are currently jointly delivering the prestigious King Abdullah International Gardens (KAIG) project in Saudi Arabia. The partnership, with a combined staff of over 1,000, will operate out of offices in Pune, Bangalore and London.
Barton Willmore will contribute extensive masterplanning and urban design experience in international markets to the collaboration, with particular emphasis on new settlements, urban renewal and extensions, mixed use planning and public realm design – which will be known as Bwi:Neilsoft.
Neilsoft contributes multi-disciplinary technical expertise, local knowledge of practices & culture, infrastructure & transportation planning, and ability to handle large project documentation volumes.
Nick Sweet, project director and Partner at Barton Willmore’s London office commented: “We are very excited about the prospect of extending our established working relationship with Neilsoft. Through this new partnership we are able to combine a wealth of expertise and knowledge for the benefit of our clients. The partnership also extends our ideas about sustainable development, particularly through working with local experts. This deepens our understanding of a place and its people and promotes reinvestment in local economies.”
“India is developing rapidly and Barton Willmore is looking to bring the experience gained in the UK as well as regions such as China, Russia and the Middle East to this exciting market.”
Mr. Ketan Bakshi, Managing Director of Neilsoft said “The Bwi:Neilsoft cooperation will result in a choice that brings fresh thinking, speed, scale, integrated engineering infrastructure thinking, and extraordinary concepts in masterplanning to the fore”. He continued “Barton Willmore’s experience and work speaks for itself and it stands out. Developers and Township Planners will recognize the value and marketability of their work and commission us to develop sustainable masterplans & designs which truly stand out.”
Neilsoft and Barton Willmore International are currently jointly delivering the prestigious King Abdullah International Gardens (KAIG) project in Saudi Arabia. The partnership, with a combined staff of over 1,000, will operate out of offices in Pune, Bangalore and London.
Nov 26, 2009
Infotech Enterprises Ltd to acquire 2 US cos this financial year for upto USD 40 M
Mumbai: Infotech Enterprises Ltd is looking to acquire two companies in the US during the current financial year. This was stated by BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman & Managing Director of the Company on the sidelines of a NASSCOM conference.
He said that the buyouts could be in the range of USD 10 - 20 million each. This would be funded from the cash surplus of the Company.
The Company may add another 500 engineers during the current financial year. Infotech is looking to acquire candidates that could complement its domain knowledge and add to its present strengths. The company currently employs nearly 7500 people.
Currently, the Company's focus was on improving its presence in the US. Forty seven percent of the company's overall revenues are from the US.
He said that the buyouts could be in the range of USD 10 - 20 million each. This would be funded from the cash surplus of the Company.
The Company may add another 500 engineers during the current financial year. Infotech is looking to acquire candidates that could complement its domain knowledge and add to its present strengths. The company currently employs nearly 7500 people.
Currently, the Company's focus was on improving its presence in the US. Forty seven percent of the company's overall revenues are from the US.
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BWIR Completes Acquisition of think3 India-based Engineering Services Division
Integrated within BWIR's Chennai operations.
Chennai - Barry-Wehmiller International Resources (BWIR), a global provider of business and technology solutions to the manufacturing domain, announced completing transition of think3's India-based engineering services division serving the European market. The division will be integrated with BWIR's engineering services operation in Chennai, India, further expanding the firm's delivery and execution capabilities to a broad range of clients worldwide. The acquiring agreement between BWIR and think3, Italy was signed early this year and marks the 45th acquisition for Barry-Wehmiller Companies since 1987.
As part of the consulting platform of St. Louis-based Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc., BWIR has been a pioneer in the engineering services domain for more than a decade and offers a breadth of services ranging from complex machine design, new product development, manufacturing consulting and support, and sophisticated controls technology. BWIR's engineering services practice is complemented by additional expertise in enterprise solutions and IT consulting, positioning BWIR as a single source for its customers' complete engineering and IT needs.
"The agreement with think3 strengthens BWIR's growing presence in the European market, while complementing a pattern of aggressive revenue growth that has increased at a compound annual rate of more than 40 percent," explained BWIR President & Managing Partner Vasant Bennett. "Our model of developing long-term customer relationships, our proven execution strategy and our global competency combine to create a compelling value proposition, which we believe will prove mutually beneficial to our customers as well as our engineering professionals as we partner with think3."
With a record of innovation spanning 30 years, think3 has emerged as one of the most significant global players in the engineering technology and services market, with operations in the U.S., Italy, Germany, France, Japan and China. In addition to the transition of think3 engineering services, the agreement designates BWIR as a global implementation provider for think3's complete range of product solutions, adding another dimension to the evolving partnership between the two companies.
"BWIR's proven engineering services and software implementation capabilities, complemented by the complete suite of think3 products, will enable BWIR to expand its ability to offer world-class engineering solutions to a global client base that already includes a variety of mid-market and Fortune 500 manufacturing companies worldwide," explained BWIR Vice-President & Senior Partner Senthilkumar Deivasigamany.
Commenting on the agreement, think3 CEO Filippo Zuccarello stated, "Beyond the transition of think3's engineering services division to BWIR, we look forward to pursuing opportunities in which the synergy between think3 and BWIR will provide greater resource capabilities to meet our global strategic objectives. Through this new partnership, think3 and BWIR customers will have access to a comprehensive range of quality products and services suitable for a competitive manufacturing company."
In fiscal year 2008, a strategic combination of organic and acquisition growth allowed Barry-Wehmiller to reach a new milestone, with annual revenues surpassing $1 billion for the first time in the company's 123-year history. Barry-Wehmiller now has more than 5,200 team members serving the global marketplace in more than 50 operations worldwide.
Chennai - Barry-Wehmiller International Resources (BWIR), a global provider of business and technology solutions to the manufacturing domain, announced completing transition of think3's India-based engineering services division serving the European market. The division will be integrated with BWIR's engineering services operation in Chennai, India, further expanding the firm's delivery and execution capabilities to a broad range of clients worldwide. The acquiring agreement between BWIR and think3, Italy was signed early this year and marks the 45th acquisition for Barry-Wehmiller Companies since 1987.
As part of the consulting platform of St. Louis-based Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc., BWIR has been a pioneer in the engineering services domain for more than a decade and offers a breadth of services ranging from complex machine design, new product development, manufacturing consulting and support, and sophisticated controls technology. BWIR's engineering services practice is complemented by additional expertise in enterprise solutions and IT consulting, positioning BWIR as a single source for its customers' complete engineering and IT needs.
"The agreement with think3 strengthens BWIR's growing presence in the European market, while complementing a pattern of aggressive revenue growth that has increased at a compound annual rate of more than 40 percent," explained BWIR President & Managing Partner Vasant Bennett. "Our model of developing long-term customer relationships, our proven execution strategy and our global competency combine to create a compelling value proposition, which we believe will prove mutually beneficial to our customers as well as our engineering professionals as we partner with think3."
With a record of innovation spanning 30 years, think3 has emerged as one of the most significant global players in the engineering technology and services market, with operations in the U.S., Italy, Germany, France, Japan and China. In addition to the transition of think3 engineering services, the agreement designates BWIR as a global implementation provider for think3's complete range of product solutions, adding another dimension to the evolving partnership between the two companies.
"BWIR's proven engineering services and software implementation capabilities, complemented by the complete suite of think3 products, will enable BWIR to expand its ability to offer world-class engineering solutions to a global client base that already includes a variety of mid-market and Fortune 500 manufacturing companies worldwide," explained BWIR Vice-President & Senior Partner Senthilkumar Deivasigamany.
Commenting on the agreement, think3 CEO Filippo Zuccarello stated, "Beyond the transition of think3's engineering services division to BWIR, we look forward to pursuing opportunities in which the synergy between think3 and BWIR will provide greater resource capabilities to meet our global strategic objectives. Through this new partnership, think3 and BWIR customers will have access to a comprehensive range of quality products and services suitable for a competitive manufacturing company."
In fiscal year 2008, a strategic combination of organic and acquisition growth allowed Barry-Wehmiller to reach a new milestone, with annual revenues surpassing $1 billion for the first time in the company's 123-year history. Barry-Wehmiller now has more than 5,200 team members serving the global marketplace in more than 50 operations worldwide.
SYCODE Releases Pro/ENGINEER File Import Plug-in for AutoCAD
Panaji, GOA – SYCODE has released a Pro/ENGINEER file import plug-in for AutoCAD. The plug-in allows users to import Pro/ENGINEER part and assembly files into AutoCAD without the need of a Pro/ENGINEER license on the computer or network.
"Data exchange between Pro/ENGINEER and AutoCAD is largely one way street,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "Pro/ENGINEER has the ability to read 2D and 3D data from AutoCAD DWG and DXF files. But the reverse is not possible. This is not that big a problem since data exchange between AutoCAD and Pro/ENGINEER mostly involves converting a 2D drawing or a 3D solid in AutoCAD to a 3D model in Pro/ENGINEER. However, in recent releases Autodesk has added significant 3D solid modeling capabilities to AutoCAD, but has not matched it with the ability to read proprietary 3D data from solid modeling systems like Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD gives AutoCAD users the ability to open 3D solid models designed in Pro/ENGINEER and carry out solid modeling operations on them.”
Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD can read Pro/ENGINEER part PRT and assembly ASM files from Pro/ENGINEER version 16 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0. The plug-in is powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing the invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD also creates a detailed log file which is extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aids in locating and fixing errors.
Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
"Data exchange between Pro/ENGINEER and AutoCAD is largely one way street,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "Pro/ENGINEER has the ability to read 2D and 3D data from AutoCAD DWG and DXF files. But the reverse is not possible. This is not that big a problem since data exchange between AutoCAD and Pro/ENGINEER mostly involves converting a 2D drawing or a 3D solid in AutoCAD to a 3D model in Pro/ENGINEER. However, in recent releases Autodesk has added significant 3D solid modeling capabilities to AutoCAD, but has not matched it with the ability to read proprietary 3D data from solid modeling systems like Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD gives AutoCAD users the ability to open 3D solid models designed in Pro/ENGINEER and carry out solid modeling operations on them.”
Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD can read Pro/ENGINEER part PRT and assembly ASM files from Pro/ENGINEER version 16 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0. The plug-in is powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing the invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD also creates a detailed log file which is extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aids in locating and fixing errors.
Pro/ENGINEER Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
STAR-CCM+ V4.06 becomes most popular product in CD-adapco's 30 year history
New York and London: Polling more than a 1000 downloads in its first few hours of release, CD-adapco today announced that STAR-CCM+ V4.06 is the fastest downloaded product in the company’s 30 year history.
“The popularity of the STAR-CCM+ V4.06 is a clear endorsement of four-monthly release strategy, and an indication of our rapidly growing user base,” boasts VP Product Development Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. “I encourage every STAR-CCM+ user that has not already upgraded to V4.06 to do so today.”
In the six years since its first release, STAR-CCM+ has evolved into more than just a CFD code, and is now an integrated platform for powerful multi-disciplinary engineering simulation, including: combustion; multiphase flow; heat transfer through solids and fluids; dynamic fluid body interaction; and solid stress: all from within a single environment. Principal new features of STAR-CCM+ V4.06 include models to simulate broadband aeroacoustic noise and aerodynamic flutter, together with a range of customer requested enhancements aimed at increasing both user productivity and simulation capability.
Ercolanelli does not expect that this record will be a long standing one, however: “STAR-CCM+ V5, which will be officially launched at the 2010 STAR European Conference, will represent a paradigm shift in engineering simulation, and looks set to be the most important software release in our company’s history. “
“The popularity of the STAR-CCM+ V4.06 is a clear endorsement of four-monthly release strategy, and an indication of our rapidly growing user base,” boasts VP Product Development Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. “I encourage every STAR-CCM+ user that has not already upgraded to V4.06 to do so today.”
In the six years since its first release, STAR-CCM+ has evolved into more than just a CFD code, and is now an integrated platform for powerful multi-disciplinary engineering simulation, including: combustion; multiphase flow; heat transfer through solids and fluids; dynamic fluid body interaction; and solid stress: all from within a single environment. Principal new features of STAR-CCM+ V4.06 include models to simulate broadband aeroacoustic noise and aerodynamic flutter, together with a range of customer requested enhancements aimed at increasing both user productivity and simulation capability.
Ercolanelli does not expect that this record will be a long standing one, however: “STAR-CCM+ V5, which will be officially launched at the 2010 STAR European Conference, will represent a paradigm shift in engineering simulation, and looks set to be the most important software release in our company’s history. “
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Delcam's Solid Doctor for data repair to be launched at Euromold
Delcam will launch the Solid Doctor for the repair of CAD models at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt from 2nd to 5th December. Solid Doctor will be available as part of the new releases of Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD software and the CopyCAD Pro reverse engineering program. Both programs will incorporate Parasolid® software, the industry-leading geometric modelling component from Siemens PLM Software.
The addition of Parasolid, together with Delcam’s existing tools, allows the Solid Doctor to read in and repair models from all sources, including IGES and native CATIA files, and output a Parasolid XT file that can be read directly into all software based on Parasolid, including IronCAD, SolidWorks, TopSolid, T-Flex and VisiCAD, as well as Siemens PLM Software’s own Solid Edge® software and NXTM software products.
The Solid Doctor is a major step towards true interoperability with many popular CAD systems. Parasolid is the component modelling engine on which more CAD systems are based than any other, while others such as Autodesk’s Inventor and PTC’s Pro/Engineer, have import/export filters for the Parasolid native XT file format. As such, once a valid Parasolid model has been created, these systems can exchange the data without translation and the inherent further re-work such translation entails.
With the Solid Doctor, users will be able to tackle all the common problems that can be found when translating low precision and incomplete data, including gaps and overlaps between surfaces, or duplicated and missing surfaces, and generate a valid, high-precision Parasolid model.
The Solid Doctor uses the automatic data repair tools that are provided as part of Parasolid, together with the surface creation and editing options that are available from PowerSHAPE. This combination means that simple repairs can be carried out quickly and easily, while more complex problems can be overcome by deleting and replacing the existing surfaces within the model.
The first stage in using the Solid Doctor is to analyse the model using the Parasolid checking mechanisms, to determine the extent of any inconsistency issues in topology or geometry when the data is examined with the high levels of precision of Parasolid. Solid Doctor divides these issues into separate categories and labels the model. For each category or class of inconsistency, Solid Doctor recommends the most appropriate course of action, including a possible automatic fix.
The user then applies the automated repair sequence. This uses a combination of the healing technology in Parasolid, plus some extra Delcam tools, for example, to correct surfaces that have had their orientation reversed. These automated tools are typically different for each class of inconsistency, as experience has shown that what is effective in one case does not necessarily work for another. Each corrected issue has its label changed from red to green as it is repaired. The repairs can be inspected individually to ensure that the results are as required or the whole model can be checked again to highlight any further inconsistencies.
The second repair stage involves using Delcam’s unique trim region editing tools to correct larger issues that require manual repair by a skilled user, such as mismatches between the edges of the various surfaces within the model. These include direct editing options for the trim boundaries, which allow very quick and flexible adjustment of the surface edges to overcome errors in the model.
For the more serious problems that remain, it will usually be necessary to generate replacement surfaces in the affected area. This can be done easily using PowerSHAPE’s Smart Surfacing technology. The user simply deletes the existing surfaces and sketches around the area to be repaired. PowerSHAPE will then analyse the boundary and suggest the most appropriate type of surface to fill the space. Tangency can be maintained with the surrounding surfaces if required. If the user is not happy with the initial selection made by the software, he can run through alternative solutions until he is satisfied with the result.
Once the user is happy with the quality of the repaired surfaces, they are automatically incorporated back into the Parasolid model. This process continues until all the inconsistencies have been resolved and a valid Parasolid model created. By giving the user total control over how the part is repaired, even very poor quality or badly damaged data can be repaired quickly and efficiently to create a valid Parasolid model.
Despite the many improvements made in data translation in recent years, it still remains a multi-million dollar problem for manufacturers that need to pass CAD data up and down a supply chain. Delcam’s Solid Doctor will provide a quick and easy solution to this problem and so allow faster and more efficient new product development.
The addition of Parasolid, together with Delcam’s existing tools, allows the Solid Doctor to read in and repair models from all sources, including IGES and native CATIA files, and output a Parasolid XT file that can be read directly into all software based on Parasolid, including IronCAD, SolidWorks, TopSolid, T-Flex and VisiCAD, as well as Siemens PLM Software’s own Solid Edge® software and NXTM software products.
The Solid Doctor is a major step towards true interoperability with many popular CAD systems. Parasolid is the component modelling engine on which more CAD systems are based than any other, while others such as Autodesk’s Inventor and PTC’s Pro/Engineer, have import/export filters for the Parasolid native XT file format. As such, once a valid Parasolid model has been created, these systems can exchange the data without translation and the inherent further re-work such translation entails.
With the Solid Doctor, users will be able to tackle all the common problems that can be found when translating low precision and incomplete data, including gaps and overlaps between surfaces, or duplicated and missing surfaces, and generate a valid, high-precision Parasolid model.
The Solid Doctor uses the automatic data repair tools that are provided as part of Parasolid, together with the surface creation and editing options that are available from PowerSHAPE. This combination means that simple repairs can be carried out quickly and easily, while more complex problems can be overcome by deleting and replacing the existing surfaces within the model.
The first stage in using the Solid Doctor is to analyse the model using the Parasolid checking mechanisms, to determine the extent of any inconsistency issues in topology or geometry when the data is examined with the high levels of precision of Parasolid. Solid Doctor divides these issues into separate categories and labels the model. For each category or class of inconsistency, Solid Doctor recommends the most appropriate course of action, including a possible automatic fix.
The user then applies the automated repair sequence. This uses a combination of the healing technology in Parasolid, plus some extra Delcam tools, for example, to correct surfaces that have had their orientation reversed. These automated tools are typically different for each class of inconsistency, as experience has shown that what is effective in one case does not necessarily work for another. Each corrected issue has its label changed from red to green as it is repaired. The repairs can be inspected individually to ensure that the results are as required or the whole model can be checked again to highlight any further inconsistencies.
The second repair stage involves using Delcam’s unique trim region editing tools to correct larger issues that require manual repair by a skilled user, such as mismatches between the edges of the various surfaces within the model. These include direct editing options for the trim boundaries, which allow very quick and flexible adjustment of the surface edges to overcome errors in the model.
For the more serious problems that remain, it will usually be necessary to generate replacement surfaces in the affected area. This can be done easily using PowerSHAPE’s Smart Surfacing technology. The user simply deletes the existing surfaces and sketches around the area to be repaired. PowerSHAPE will then analyse the boundary and suggest the most appropriate type of surface to fill the space. Tangency can be maintained with the surrounding surfaces if required. If the user is not happy with the initial selection made by the software, he can run through alternative solutions until he is satisfied with the result.
Once the user is happy with the quality of the repaired surfaces, they are automatically incorporated back into the Parasolid model. This process continues until all the inconsistencies have been resolved and a valid Parasolid model created. By giving the user total control over how the part is repaired, even very poor quality or badly damaged data can be repaired quickly and efficiently to create a valid Parasolid model.
Despite the many improvements made in data translation in recent years, it still remains a multi-million dollar problem for manufacturers that need to pass CAD data up and down a supply chain. Delcam’s Solid Doctor will provide a quick and easy solution to this problem and so allow faster and more efficient new product development.
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Think3 supports approach to multisensory modeling in funded project
Think3 is member of the consortium implementing the project SATIN. This project with a total cost of 5.1 million € was funded with 2.9 million € from the EU and started in 2006 under the coordination of Politecnico di Milano for 36 month duration.
SATIN stands for “Sound And Tangible Interfaces for Novel product design”. Other members of the consortium are the Portuguese Institituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores research institution, the Technical University of Eindhoven, University of Nottingham and as partners from the industry Alessi, Italdesign – Giugiaro, MOOG-FCS, Steklarna Hrastnik.
The research develops a new multimodal and multisensory interface system for product design integrating in an effective way novel modeling paradigms based on the fusion of vision, haptic and sound interface, through a “designer-centered” approach.
You can see the movie of the SATIN project on www.youtube.com/satinproject
This video presents the SATIN project and in particular its final result: the SATIN system. In the video, the several modules are described. A user demonstrates how to use the SATIN system for evaluating and modifying aesthetic shapes.
The SATIN system consists of a haptic interface, including two FCS-HapticMaster devices connected and integrated with a new haptic strip for shape evaluation and modification. The user can explore and evaluate a surface shape along a trajectory interactively defined by slipping her fingers on the haptic strip that takes the shape of the curve on the virtual model. The shape can be modified by exerting pressure on the haptic strip in single points, or by applying traction/compression and flexion/torsion at the ends of the strip. The visualization system is rear-projection based. The user wears stereoscopic glasses for 3D models viewing; her viewpoint is driven by an optical tracking system. The virtual shape is precisely superimposed to and co-aligned with the haptic strip in order to mimic real life situations. The system also provides metaphoric sounds related to geometric characteristics of the explored shape (curvature, discontinuities, etc.) and also provides feedback about the user’s actions (i.e. forces applied during shape manipulation).
SATIN stands for “Sound And Tangible Interfaces for Novel product design”. Other members of the consortium are the Portuguese Institituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores research institution, the Technical University of Eindhoven, University of Nottingham and as partners from the industry Alessi, Italdesign – Giugiaro, MOOG-FCS, Steklarna Hrastnik.
The research develops a new multimodal and multisensory interface system for product design integrating in an effective way novel modeling paradigms based on the fusion of vision, haptic and sound interface, through a “designer-centered” approach.
You can see the movie of the SATIN project on www.youtube.com/satinproject
This video presents the SATIN project and in particular its final result: the SATIN system. In the video, the several modules are described. A user demonstrates how to use the SATIN system for evaluating and modifying aesthetic shapes.
The SATIN system consists of a haptic interface, including two FCS-HapticMaster devices connected and integrated with a new haptic strip for shape evaluation and modification. The user can explore and evaluate a surface shape along a trajectory interactively defined by slipping her fingers on the haptic strip that takes the shape of the curve on the virtual model. The shape can be modified by exerting pressure on the haptic strip in single points, or by applying traction/compression and flexion/torsion at the ends of the strip. The visualization system is rear-projection based. The user wears stereoscopic glasses for 3D models viewing; her viewpoint is driven by an optical tracking system. The virtual shape is precisely superimposed to and co-aligned with the haptic strip in order to mimic real life situations. The system also provides metaphoric sounds related to geometric characteristics of the explored shape (curvature, discontinuities, etc.) and also provides feedback about the user’s actions (i.e. forces applied during shape manipulation).
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InterDyn BMI joins PTC AdvantageNetwork ChannelAdvantage Partner Program to Resell PTC PLM Solutions
ST. PAUL, MN - InterDyn BMI, a provider of Microsoft Dynamics solutions, announced today that it has joined the PTC AdvantageNetwork ChannelAdvantage Partner Program. This is especially significant for manufacturers who already use Microsoft Dynamics ERP to run their global business processes and would like to further improve efficiencies around product development by adding complementary Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.
InterDyn BMI will now be able to introduce PTC PLM software to customers in the Automotive, High Technology, Industrial Equipment and Life Sciences industries. The PTC Product Development System comprised of Pro/ENGINEER for CAD/CAM/CAE product design, Windchill PLM software to manage and configure complete product development content, Arbortext for product information delivery, Mathcad for engineering calculations, ProductView to visualize digital product content, and InSight for product analytics.
"We are very excited to be part of the PTC AdvantageNetwork Partner Program. InterDyn BMI has been providing Microsoft Dynamics Solutions for over twenty years and this program is a great way to extend what we can do for our clients and new customers," said John Hendrickson, CEO at InterDyn BMI.
With the addition of PTC software, InterDyn BMI can help its customers reduce project cycles and costs, and improve product quality to increase customer satisfaction that can improve market positioning.
"PTC is pleased to work with channel partners like InterDyn to expand our ability to offer the PTC Windchill PLM solution to manufacturers around the globe," said Paul J. Cunningham, executive vice president, worldwide sales, PTC. "PTC believes that customers who choose to use Microsoft Dynamics ERP in conjunction with PTC's PLM software will benefit from increases in overall product development efficiencies that can improve time-to-market, help control costs and drive competitive differentiation."
InterDyn BMI and PTC provide strategic business solutions and enterprise services to customers worldwide.
InterDyn BMI will now be able to introduce PTC PLM software to customers in the Automotive, High Technology, Industrial Equipment and Life Sciences industries. The PTC Product Development System comprised of Pro/ENGINEER for CAD/CAM/CAE product design, Windchill PLM software to manage and configure complete product development content, Arbortext for product information delivery, Mathcad for engineering calculations, ProductView to visualize digital product content, and InSight for product analytics.
"We are very excited to be part of the PTC AdvantageNetwork Partner Program. InterDyn BMI has been providing Microsoft Dynamics Solutions for over twenty years and this program is a great way to extend what we can do for our clients and new customers," said John Hendrickson, CEO at InterDyn BMI.
With the addition of PTC software, InterDyn BMI can help its customers reduce project cycles and costs, and improve product quality to increase customer satisfaction that can improve market positioning.
"PTC is pleased to work with channel partners like InterDyn to expand our ability to offer the PTC Windchill PLM solution to manufacturers around the globe," said Paul J. Cunningham, executive vice president, worldwide sales, PTC. "PTC believes that customers who choose to use Microsoft Dynamics ERP in conjunction with PTC's PLM software will benefit from increases in overall product development efficiencies that can improve time-to-market, help control costs and drive competitive differentiation."
InterDyn BMI and PTC provide strategic business solutions and enterprise services to customers worldwide.
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Nov 25, 2009
Dassault Systèmes releases 'Abaqus 6.9 Extended Functionality' FEA from SIMULIA
Paris – Dassault Systèmes today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.9 Extended Functionality (6.9-EF), its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) product suite from SIMULIA.
Designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries use Abaqus to predict the real-world behavior of products, materials, and manufacturing processes. This latest release delivers key new features and enhancements for modeling, advanced mechanics, and performance. These ongoing improvements are enabling customers to consolidate their simulation software, thereby lowering cost and increasing efficiency in their product development process.
“To meet product performance requirements within ever-shorter product development timelines, it is imperative that we perform physically accurate design simulations as fast as possible," stated Kirk Siefker, Senior Analytical Engineer, Engine Components, Schaeffler Group USA. "With the improved implicit dynamic capabilities in Abaqus 6.9-EF, we are able to simulate the realistic performance of our engine component and system designs 30% faster while enhancing our product’s overall performance.”
"The extended functionality of Abaqus underscores our ongoing commitment to delivering robust, customer-driven enhancements to our realistic simulation software more quickly," stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. "The latest capabilities in 6.9-EF will benefit our users in every industry by helping them accelerate the evaluation of real-world product behavior during the design phase."
New features and enhancements in Abaqus 6.9-EF release include:
Modeling
* Interactive support is provided for meshing models using cylindrical elements, which can be useful in the analysis of pipelines by oil and gas companies.
* Geometry repair tools in Abaqus/CAE offer greater flexibility and broader scope for systematically adjusting the geometry of a model in preparation for meshing.
* An interface for model change definitions allows the deactivation and reactivation of model regions and contact pairs during an analysis.
* Users can now define direct cyclic and low-cycle fatigue analysis procedures in Abaqus/CAE. Low-cycle fatigue analysis can be used to efficiently predict fatigue life in electronic components such as solder joints.
* Discrete orientations provide a convenient method for accurately defining spatially varying material orientations on models with curved geometries such as aircraft panels and car bodies.
Advanced Mechanics
* Viscoelastic behavior can be now modeled with orthotropic/anisotropic elasticity in Abaqus/Explicit, which provides more realistic composite damage prediction.
* A new and efficient method is available for analyzing structures subject to air blast loading, which is useful for safety evaluation in the civil engineering and defense industries.
* Continued advancements in fracture and failure include contour integral evaluation for cracks defined with XFEM and the inclusion of the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) in Abaqus/Explicit, which allows users to model brittle fracture of partially bonded surfaces.
* Breakthrough improvement in the implicit dynamics procedure helps solve unstable problems involving contact, buckling, and material failure. Examples include impact inside gear mechanisms and medical device deployment within patients.
Performance
* A new iterative solver in Abaqus/Standard provides performance gains up to 20x or more in comparison to the direct sparse solver. The iterative solver is intended for very large simulation problems typically found in applications such as powertrain, oil reservoir, and material microstructure simulations.
* Performance of creating high-quality surface meshes using the mapped meshing technique has been significantly improved. Depending on the part, performance gains of 2x to 40x are possible. This is extremely useful in meshing engine blocks and ship hulls.
Designers, engineers, and researchers in a broad range of industries use Abaqus to predict the real-world behavior of products, materials, and manufacturing processes. This latest release delivers key new features and enhancements for modeling, advanced mechanics, and performance. These ongoing improvements are enabling customers to consolidate their simulation software, thereby lowering cost and increasing efficiency in their product development process.
“To meet product performance requirements within ever-shorter product development timelines, it is imperative that we perform physically accurate design simulations as fast as possible," stated Kirk Siefker, Senior Analytical Engineer, Engine Components, Schaeffler Group USA. "With the improved implicit dynamic capabilities in Abaqus 6.9-EF, we are able to simulate the realistic performance of our engine component and system designs 30% faster while enhancing our product’s overall performance.”
"The extended functionality of Abaqus underscores our ongoing commitment to delivering robust, customer-driven enhancements to our realistic simulation software more quickly," stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. "The latest capabilities in 6.9-EF will benefit our users in every industry by helping them accelerate the evaluation of real-world product behavior during the design phase."
New features and enhancements in Abaqus 6.9-EF release include:
Modeling
* Interactive support is provided for meshing models using cylindrical elements, which can be useful in the analysis of pipelines by oil and gas companies.
* Geometry repair tools in Abaqus/CAE offer greater flexibility and broader scope for systematically adjusting the geometry of a model in preparation for meshing.
* An interface for model change definitions allows the deactivation and reactivation of model regions and contact pairs during an analysis.
* Users can now define direct cyclic and low-cycle fatigue analysis procedures in Abaqus/CAE. Low-cycle fatigue analysis can be used to efficiently predict fatigue life in electronic components such as solder joints.
* Discrete orientations provide a convenient method for accurately defining spatially varying material orientations on models with curved geometries such as aircraft panels and car bodies.
Advanced Mechanics
* Viscoelastic behavior can be now modeled with orthotropic/anisotropic elasticity in Abaqus/Explicit, which provides more realistic composite damage prediction.
* A new and efficient method is available for analyzing structures subject to air blast loading, which is useful for safety evaluation in the civil engineering and defense industries.
* Continued advancements in fracture and failure include contour integral evaluation for cracks defined with XFEM and the inclusion of the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) in Abaqus/Explicit, which allows users to model brittle fracture of partially bonded surfaces.
* Breakthrough improvement in the implicit dynamics procedure helps solve unstable problems involving contact, buckling, and material failure. Examples include impact inside gear mechanisms and medical device deployment within patients.
Performance
* A new iterative solver in Abaqus/Standard provides performance gains up to 20x or more in comparison to the direct sparse solver. The iterative solver is intended for very large simulation problems typically found in applications such as powertrain, oil reservoir, and material microstructure simulations.
* Performance of creating high-quality surface meshes using the mapped meshing technique has been significantly improved. Depending on the part, performance gains of 2x to 40x are possible. This is extremely useful in meshing engine blocks and ship hulls.
Flow Science Announces Release of FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.0
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO: Flow Science, Inc. has announced that a new release of the distributed-memory version of its FLOW-3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FLOW-3D/MP, is now available.
FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.0 offers substantial performance improvements, including significant decreases in problem setup and simulation times. Crucial developments to the software have reduced the amount of data sent via MPI communication, cut down on the number of synchronization points and improved computational load balancing using the automatic domain decomposition tool (ADT). ADT allows users to decompose the domain quickly and efficiently, instead of relying on a tedious and often inaccurate manual procedure. All of this makes it possible to extend scaling to up to 32 cores and achieve runtime improvements of as much as 16x.
The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v4.0 are based on FLOW-3D v9.3.2. Read a complete list of these features.
“This new version will enable our user community to achieve highly-accurate and reliable answers in a half day or less which might have previously taken a week,” said David Souders, Flow Science’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
FLOW-3D/MP, first released in 2006, uses multi-block methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster. FLOW-3D/MP has been benchmarked and tested extensively on both Windows Compute Cluster and Linux workstations.
Flow Science has commenced shipment of this new release to customers under maintenance contracts.
Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in transient, free-surface flow modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has distributors for FLOW-3D sales and support in nations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Flow Science’s headquarters is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
FLOW-3D/MP Version 4.0 offers substantial performance improvements, including significant decreases in problem setup and simulation times. Crucial developments to the software have reduced the amount of data sent via MPI communication, cut down on the number of synchronization points and improved computational load balancing using the automatic domain decomposition tool (ADT). ADT allows users to decompose the domain quickly and efficiently, instead of relying on a tedious and often inaccurate manual procedure. All of this makes it possible to extend scaling to up to 32 cores and achieve runtime improvements of as much as 16x.
The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v4.0 are based on FLOW-3D v9.3.2. Read a complete list of these features.
“This new version will enable our user community to achieve highly-accurate and reliable answers in a half day or less which might have previously taken a week,” said David Souders, Flow Science’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
FLOW-3D/MP, first released in 2006, uses multi-block methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster. FLOW-3D/MP has been benchmarked and tested extensively on both Windows Compute Cluster and Linux workstations.
Flow Science has commenced shipment of this new release to customers under maintenance contracts.
Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in transient, free-surface flow modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has distributors for FLOW-3D sales and support in nations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Flow Science’s headquarters is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Pointwise's Latest Gridgen Release Cuts Hybrid Mesh Sizes by More Than Half
FORT WORTH, TX - Pointwise today released the latest update to its Gridgen meshing software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with new tools for drastic size reductions in hybrid meshes.
"Customers love hybrid meshes because they can be generated very quickly using Gridgen's T-Rex technique, but the resulting meshes can be very large," said Dr. John Steinbrenner, Pointwise's vice president for research and development. "In the latest Gridgen release, improvements to the algorithm that combines tetrahedra into prisms produce up to a 57 percent reduction in total cell count relative to the previous version of the software."
Gridgen's T-Rex technique extrudes layers of high quality, high aspect ratio tetrahedra for boundary layer resolution, gradually transitioning to isotropic tets away from the body. An optional post-processing step combines adjacent tetrahedra into pyramid and prism elements in the extrusion layer. Prism recombination was frequently halted in previous versions by mesh quality issues and cell topology restrictions on symmetry planes. By removing many of these limitations in the new Gridgen Version 15.15, final cell counts can be reduced dramatically. Customers benefit because a smaller grid requires less memory, runs faster in the CFD solver and produces results sooner.
"A 27 million cell mesh for a modern, complex fighter aircraft was reduced to 12 million cells, and similar reductions were obtained for the AIAA shock boundary layer interaction benchmark case," said Steinbrenner. "Combined with the automation of this technique, these smaller meshes make hybrid meshing very effective for the CFD practitioner."
Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today - mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The company's Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.
The Propulsive Wing is a new patented aerodynamic platform that integrates an embedded, distributed cross-flow fan propulsion system within a thick wing. Image courtesy of Dr. Joseph Kummer, president and principal scientist at Propulsive Wing LLC in Elbridge, NY.
"Customers love hybrid meshes because they can be generated very quickly using Gridgen's T-Rex technique, but the resulting meshes can be very large," said Dr. John Steinbrenner, Pointwise's vice president for research and development. "In the latest Gridgen release, improvements to the algorithm that combines tetrahedra into prisms produce up to a 57 percent reduction in total cell count relative to the previous version of the software."
Gridgen's T-Rex technique extrudes layers of high quality, high aspect ratio tetrahedra for boundary layer resolution, gradually transitioning to isotropic tets away from the body. An optional post-processing step combines adjacent tetrahedra into pyramid and prism elements in the extrusion layer. Prism recombination was frequently halted in previous versions by mesh quality issues and cell topology restrictions on symmetry planes. By removing many of these limitations in the new Gridgen Version 15.15, final cell counts can be reduced dramatically. Customers benefit because a smaller grid requires less memory, runs faster in the CFD solver and produces results sooner.
"A 27 million cell mesh for a modern, complex fighter aircraft was reduced to 12 million cells, and similar reductions were obtained for the AIAA shock boundary layer interaction benchmark case," said Steinbrenner. "Combined with the automation of this technique, these smaller meshes make hybrid meshing very effective for the CFD practitioner."
Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today - mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The company's Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.
The Propulsive Wing is a new patented aerodynamic platform that integrates an embedded, distributed cross-flow fan propulsion system within a thick wing. Image courtesy of Dr. Joseph Kummer, president and principal scientist at Propulsive Wing LLC in Elbridge, NY.
SYCODE's Inventor File Import Plug-in for AutoCAD released
Panaji, GOA – SYCODE has released an Autodesk Inventor file import plug-in for AutoCAD. The plug-in allows users to import Inventor part and assembly files into AutoCAD without the need of an Inventor license on the computer or network.
"We have been receiving requests from AutoCAD users wanting to import part and assembly files created in Autodesk Inventor,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "Inventor already has the ability to exchange 3D data with AutoCAD via the AEC Exchange method. However, this method requires a license of Inventor in order to perform the conversion. In the event that an AutoCAD user gets an Inventor Part (IPT) or Assembly (IAM) file and does not have access to Inventor, there is no way to get the 3D data stored in the IPT or IAM file into AutoCAD. That is precisely when Inventor Import for AutoCAD will come in handy”.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD can read Inventor part IPT files from Inventor 6 to Inventor 2010 and assembly IAM files from Inventor 11 to Inventor 2010. The plug-in is powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in Inventor Import for AutoCAD. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing the invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. Inventor Import for AutoCAD also creates a detailed log file which is extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aids in locating and fixing errors.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
"We have been receiving requests from AutoCAD users wanting to import part and assembly files created in Autodesk Inventor,” explains Deelip Menezes, Founder and CEO of SYCODE. "Inventor already has the ability to exchange 3D data with AutoCAD via the AEC Exchange method. However, this method requires a license of Inventor in order to perform the conversion. In the event that an AutoCAD user gets an Inventor Part (IPT) or Assembly (IAM) file and does not have access to Inventor, there is no way to get the 3D data stored in the IPT or IAM file into AutoCAD. That is precisely when Inventor Import for AutoCAD will come in handy”.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD can read Inventor part IPT files from Inventor 6 to Inventor 2010 and assembly IAM files from Inventor 11 to Inventor 2010. The plug-in is powered by the widely used 3D InterOp technology from Spatial. 3D InterOp is the industry standard for proprietary CAD file format data exchange and is used in almost all the major CAD systems. Besides data exchange 3D InterOp also offers powerful repairing and healing features which are extensively used in Inventor Import for AutoCAD. Repairing involves checking the file for corrupted data and fixing the invalid data. Healing corrects the differences in precision. Inventor Import for AutoCAD also creates a detailed log file which is extremely useful in identifying data translation problems and aids in locating and fixing errors.
Inventor Import for AutoCAD works with AutoCAD 2000 through to AutoCAD 2010, 32 Bit as well as 64 Bit and is available as a fully functional trial. The plug-in comes with an installer and detailed documentation in the form of a compiled HTML help file which contains a step-by-step tutorial to get the end user started in the shortest possible time.
Maxoft will sell and support VISTAGY's FiberSIM® in Korean Composites Market
WALTHAM, Mass — VISTAGY, Inc today announced a strategic partnership with Maxoft, Inc., a Korean-based supplier of virtual product development (VPD) software and services that is delivering composites solutions for the aerospace, wind, automotive and marine markets. The partnership will enable Maxoft to anchor its composites portfolio with FiberSIM® software and further extend VISTAGY’s reach in this dynamic market.
VISTAGY has a successful history of working with the Korean aerospace industry. Recognizing the growth of composites in quickly expanding markets such as wind energy, VISTAGY plans to expand its operations in Korea. VISTAGY chose to partner with Maxoft because the company has a history of embracing new approaches and solutions and delivering them in a timely manner. As Korea’s large and small organizations gravitate to lucrative emerging markets, they look to companies such as Maxoft and VISTAGY to stay ahead of the curve by helping them implement new processes and materials.
“The use of composite materials and need for specialized solutions to engineer products made of these materials are both expanding rapidly in Korea,” said Sungha Oh, CEO of Maxoft. “The partnership with VISTAGY is therefore extremely important for us to deliver effective solutions to our prospects and customers. Because FiberSIM is the leading software for engineering composite products in the global aerospace, wind, marine and automotive industries, we are confident that we will be able to extend VISTAGY’s leadership position in the Korean market.”
“While opportunities in Korea continue to grow within existing industries, such as aerospace, the expansion into new markets, such as wind power, is exciting for us,” said Mamoru Iguchi, general manager of VISTAGY for Asia Pacific. “Maxoft provides a strong technical presence for VISTAGY in Korea, which is absolutely critical for supporting our customers and ensuring their success.”
VISTAGY has a successful history of working with the Korean aerospace industry. Recognizing the growth of composites in quickly expanding markets such as wind energy, VISTAGY plans to expand its operations in Korea. VISTAGY chose to partner with Maxoft because the company has a history of embracing new approaches and solutions and delivering them in a timely manner. As Korea’s large and small organizations gravitate to lucrative emerging markets, they look to companies such as Maxoft and VISTAGY to stay ahead of the curve by helping them implement new processes and materials.
“The use of composite materials and need for specialized solutions to engineer products made of these materials are both expanding rapidly in Korea,” said Sungha Oh, CEO of Maxoft. “The partnership with VISTAGY is therefore extremely important for us to deliver effective solutions to our prospects and customers. Because FiberSIM is the leading software for engineering composite products in the global aerospace, wind, marine and automotive industries, we are confident that we will be able to extend VISTAGY’s leadership position in the Korean market.”
“While opportunities in Korea continue to grow within existing industries, such as aerospace, the expansion into new markets, such as wind power, is exciting for us,” said Mamoru Iguchi, general manager of VISTAGY for Asia Pacific. “Maxoft provides a strong technical presence for VISTAGY in Korea, which is absolutely critical for supporting our customers and ensuring their success.”
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Sivan Design releases Version 2.0 of its 3D Simulation Software Civil Simulate
SAN FRANCISCO- Sivan Design, a provider of civil engineering software solutions, today announced version 2.0 release of its powerful 3D simulation software Civil Simulate, supporting Civil 3D 2010 and Windows 7 (32/64 Bit).
Civil Simulate is an interactive 3D visualization and simulation tool for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and CivilCAD offering a unique approach to overcoming the challenge of turning civil engineering design into highly sophisticated 3D simulation.
From loading orthophoto raster images onto the simulation to interactive drive-through simulation from the driver's point-of-view, Civil Simulate does it all with ease and an accuracy of +/- 0.8 inch to the CAD drawing.
The current release incorporates two new innovative features including automatic creation of intersections and bridges and enhanced support for large scale projects. The software user interface incorporates the same Ribbon style from Civil 3D 2010 and is simple and intuitive - as expected from Sivan Design's products.
Sivan Design's CEO, Shlomi Sivan, said: "It is a great pleasure for us to introduce the current release of Civil Simulate, which represents the future in civil engineering design processes by offering on-the-spot evaluation in a realistic 3D environment of any change made to the design, even while still in preliminary stages."
Visitors of the annual Autodesk University (AU) 2009 user conference and exhibition in Las Vegas (Dec. 1-3, 2009) can visit Sivan Design's booth #310 for ongoing live demonstrations of Civil Simulate's capabilities.
Civil Simulate is an interactive 3D visualization and simulation tool for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and CivilCAD offering a unique approach to overcoming the challenge of turning civil engineering design into highly sophisticated 3D simulation.
From loading orthophoto raster images onto the simulation to interactive drive-through simulation from the driver's point-of-view, Civil Simulate does it all with ease and an accuracy of +/- 0.8 inch to the CAD drawing.
The current release incorporates two new innovative features including automatic creation of intersections and bridges and enhanced support for large scale projects. The software user interface incorporates the same Ribbon style from Civil 3D 2010 and is simple and intuitive - as expected from Sivan Design's products.
Sivan Design's CEO, Shlomi Sivan, said: "It is a great pleasure for us to introduce the current release of Civil Simulate, which represents the future in civil engineering design processes by offering on-the-spot evaluation in a realistic 3D environment of any change made to the design, even while still in preliminary stages."
Visitors of the annual Autodesk University (AU) 2009 user conference and exhibition in Las Vegas (Dec. 1-3, 2009) can visit Sivan Design's booth #310 for ongoing live demonstrations of Civil Simulate's capabilities.
Mastercam X4 Router : Spotlight on Nesting
Tolland, CT – Mastercam X4 Router now includes essential nesting capabilities that assure optimal material usage for the highest possible yields.
Mastercam Router X4 has Nesting Drag and Drop support, allowing you to perform automatic nesting with just enough manual intervention to achieve the best possible result in the least amount of time.
Another useful feature is the ability to automatically generate a toolpath for vertical and horizontal cut-offs. The options allow you to trim either the horizontal or vertical cut-off first, which will preserve rectangular remnants for future use.
Mastercam X4 Router now includes sophisticated interlocking nesting tools as a standard part of the powerful design and NC programming package. Highlights include:
· Fast, efficient interlocking part nesting maximizes material use.
· Double-sided nesting allows the flexibility of nesting parts with front- and back-side operations.
· Common-edge nesting maximizes material usage and reduces machining time.
· Automatic onion skinning maximizes vacuum during heavy cutting.
· Create custom part labels and nested sheet reports.
Mastercam Router X4 has Nesting Drag and Drop support, allowing you to perform automatic nesting with just enough manual intervention to achieve the best possible result in the least amount of time.
Another useful feature is the ability to automatically generate a toolpath for vertical and horizontal cut-offs. The options allow you to trim either the horizontal or vertical cut-off first, which will preserve rectangular remnants for future use.
Mastercam X4 Router now includes sophisticated interlocking nesting tools as a standard part of the powerful design and NC programming package. Highlights include:
· Fast, efficient interlocking part nesting maximizes material use.
· Double-sided nesting allows the flexibility of nesting parts with front- and back-side operations.
· Common-edge nesting maximizes material usage and reduces machining time.
· Automatic onion skinning maximizes vacuum during heavy cutting.
· Create custom part labels and nested sheet reports.
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IES ranked as the most “architect friendly” building performance simulation software
Tops Independent Architect Friendly Survey.
IES has announced that it was ranked as the most “architect friendly” building performance simulation software in a recent academic study. The survey, lists the IES as top out of the ten different simulation tools evaluated; which included Ecotect, Design Builder Green Building Studio, EnergyPlus and DOE-2. The IES VE was ranked first by 85% of respondents.
The study sampled the US architect community that had a prior interest in green building and energy performance; it surveyed architects, designers, LEED APs, architecture educators and students regarding their views on the 10 major tools in-use within the USA market. Probing the participant’s perception of the most important criteria relating to usability and benefits, it compared a variety of different elements, such as:
- provision of quick energy analysis to support decision making
- graphical and 3D representation of results and input
- flexibility of use and navigation
- friendliness of interface
- creation of comparative reports for multiple design alternatives
- quality control of simulation input
- allowance of assumptions and default values to facilitate data entry
- provision of code and rating compliance guidelines
- inclusion of data libraries related to weather, building components, systems etc.
- analysis of weather characteristics
- suggestion of suitable climate design strategies
- interoperability with building modelling programs
- accuracy and ability to simulate complex cases
The study “Architect Friendly”: A comparison of ten different building performance simulations tools by Shady Attia et al was presented at the International Building Simulation Conference earlier this year (July 2009) www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2009/BS09_0204_211.pdf.
According to the paper: “The strength of IES VE lays in its user friendly graphical user interface and its template driven approach. The tool offers default values and templates that facilitate quick entry and supports a progression in thermal performance analysis from getting quick answers in early design to detailed analysis in later design phases.”
Dr Don McLean, Founder and Managing Director of IES commented: “significantly, the survey was undertaken between December 2008 and January 2009, before the launch of Version 6 of our software, which we believe significantly enhances the ‘architect friendliness’ of our software. The paper also concluded that a design tool for an architect should educate as well as inform; this analysis to understanding concept is also at the core of all our current development.”
“IES is trying to tackle the big problems in sustainable building design, not just develop software,” commented Kevin Settlemyre, President of IES in N. America. “In order to achieve the levels of energy and CO2 reduction we’re aiming for as an industry, the building design process must become more analysis based and performance driven.”
IES has announced that it was ranked as the most “architect friendly” building performance simulation software in a recent academic study. The survey, lists the IES
The study sampled the US architect community that had a prior interest in green building and energy performance; it surveyed architects, designers, LEED APs, architecture educators and students regarding their views on the 10 major tools in-use within the USA market. Probing the participant’s perception of the most important criteria relating to usability and benefits, it compared a variety of different elements, such as:
- provision of quick energy analysis to support decision making
- graphical and 3D representation of results and input
- flexibility of use and navigation
- friendliness of interface
- creation of comparative reports for multiple design alternatives
- quality control of simulation input
- allowance of assumptions and default values to facilitate data entry
- provision of code and rating compliance guidelines
- inclusion of data libraries related to weather, building components, systems etc.
- analysis of weather characteristics
- suggestion of suitable climate design strategies
- interoperability with building modelling programs
- accuracy and ability to simulate complex cases
The study “Architect Friendly”: A comparison of ten different building performance simulations tools by Shady Attia et al was presented at the International Building Simulation Conference earlier this year (July 2009) www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2009/BS09_0204_211.pdf.
According to the paper: “The strength of IES VE lays in its user friendly graphical user interface and its template driven approach. The tool offers default values and templates that facilitate quick entry and supports a progression in thermal performance analysis from getting quick answers in early design to detailed analysis in later design phases.”
Dr Don McLean, Founder and Managing Director of IES commented: “significantly, the survey was undertaken between December 2008 and January 2009, before the launch of Version 6 of our software, which we believe significantly enhances the ‘architect friendliness’ of our software. The paper also concluded that a design tool for an architect should educate as well as inform; this analysis to understanding concept is also at the core of all our current development.”
“IES is trying to tackle the big problems in sustainable building design, not just develop software,” commented Kevin Settlemyre, President of IES in N. America. “In order to achieve the levels of energy and CO2 reduction we’re aiming for as an industry, the building design process must become more analysis based and performance driven.”
Zeus develops highly automatic meshing tool for Store Separation Simulation
NumerixExpert™
Simulation of store separation from the parent aircraft requires capability in real time making of mesh and simulation. Complexity increases due to interference of aerodynamics of both the separating bodies. To perform these simulations Zeus has developed highly automatic meshing tool using the oct-tree approach. The oct-tree mesh can be generated within a minute on bodies of any complex shape or combination of shapes present in the domain.
Zeus has also developed a state of the art solver that uses the boundary immersed cut cell approach to reduce the effect of staircase (and resulting inaccuracies) in Cartesian grids. Once the aerodynamic characteristics are obtained the store is moved in time to a new location and new aerodynamic characteristics are found. The process is repeated till the time the store clearly separates from the parent vehicle and there is no chance of interaction.
Zeus is now integrating its state of the art CFD approach with its already developed DynamicsExpert™ for finding the full trajectory and orientation of the store during its flight envelope.
Simulation of store separation from the parent aircraft requires capability in real time making of mesh and simulation. Complexity increases due to interference of aerodynamics of both the separating bodies. To perform these simulations Zeus has developed highly automatic meshing tool using the oct-tree approach. The oct-tree mesh can be generated within a minute on bodies of any complex shape or combination of shapes present in the domain.
Zeus has also developed a state of the art solver that uses the boundary immersed cut cell approach to reduce the effect of staircase (and resulting inaccuracies) in Cartesian grids. Once the aerodynamic characteristics are obtained the store is moved in time to a new location and new aerodynamic characteristics are found. The process is repeated till the time the store clearly separates from the parent vehicle and there is no chance of interaction.
Zeus is now integrating its state of the art CFD approach with its already developed DynamicsExpert™ for finding the full trajectory and orientation of the store during its flight envelope.
LEDAS Improves Parametric Design in SketchUp with version 1.2 of its Driving Dimensions plug-in
Novosibirsk, Russia – LEDAS Ltd., an independent provider of variational design tools, technology components and software development services for CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, today announced the availability of version 1.2 of its Driving Dimensions plug-in for Google SketchUp software. The Driving Dimensions product line from LEDAS is aimed at making advanced MCAD technology available at an affordable price to all users of popular 3D software.
Version 1.2 contains significant improvements in quality, stability, and performance. This was made possible because it is based on the next generation of LGS 3D geometric constraint solving software component recently released by LEDAS. The new version generates solutions that users would expect to see as outcomes. When users now modify the parameters of driving dimensions, most edges and faces remain unchanged; the only ones to change are those needed to satisfy the new parameter values. In addition, the time to solve constraints has been significantly reduced, with the Driving Dimensions plug-in now up to ten times faster than the previous version on large models.
A new feature in Driving Dimensions version 1.2 is multi-language support. Now all tooltips and system messages can be translated to other languages. Version 1.2 comes with English and Japanese built-in. (Translation into Japanese was performed by EBATECH of Japan, a reseller of LEDAS solutions in Japan.)
LEDAS invites uses of the free version of Driving Dimensions to help translate the plug-in to different languages. As compensation, LEDAS will provide all collaborators with Pro licenses of the Driving Dimensions plug-in for SketchUp at no charge.
"The Driving Dimensions plug-in for SketchUp is our most popular software," said Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "The free version of our plug-in has been downloaded by more than 15,000 SketchUp users worldwide since the first public beta was released a year ago. Significant feedback from users of both the free and Pro versions is allowing us to improve the quality of our software, and is giving us fresh ideas on new functions."
Version 1.2 contains significant improvements in quality, stability, and performance. This was made possible because it is based on the next generation of LGS 3D geometric constraint solving software component recently released by LEDAS. The new version generates solutions that users would expect to see as outcomes. When users now modify the parameters of driving dimensions, most edges and faces remain unchanged; the only ones to change are those needed to satisfy the new parameter values. In addition, the time to solve constraints has been significantly reduced, with the Driving Dimensions plug-in now up to ten times faster than the previous version on large models.
A new feature in Driving Dimensions version 1.2 is multi-language support. Now all tooltips and system messages can be translated to other languages. Version 1.2 comes with English and Japanese built-in. (Translation into Japanese was performed by EBATECH of Japan, a reseller of LEDAS solutions in Japan.)
LEDAS invites uses of the free version of Driving Dimensions to help translate the plug-in to different languages. As compensation, LEDAS will provide all collaborators with Pro licenses of the Driving Dimensions plug-in for SketchUp at no charge.
"The Driving Dimensions plug-in for SketchUp is our most popular software," said Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management, LEDAS Ltd. "The free version of our plug-in has been downloaded by more than 15,000 SketchUp users worldwide since the first public beta was released a year ago. Significant feedback from users of both the free and Pro versions is allowing us to improve the quality of our software, and is giving us fresh ideas on new functions."
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ModuleWorks introduces new smoothing methods for 5-Axis toolpaths
ModuleWorks has been showing their latest techniques for automated 3-5 axis (tilt) toolpath conversion with new smoothing methods to improve surface finish
3-5 Axis toolpath conversion is a well established machining method and good when machining deep cores and cavities. By tilting the tool over during cutting, collisions can be avoided and shorter series cutters can be employed which leads to improved surface finish
ModuleWorks continue to innovate in this area with recent releases offering a host of new features to increase automation and increase performance and toolpath quality. The latest versions can also be used with STL (mesh) as well as traditional surface geometry
The recent 2009.9 release has introduced new smoothing methods that can be applied to both the tilt and rotary elements of the toolpath. Originally a requirement for STL data where triangulation can give inconsistencies in the toolpath, the new smoothing delivers dramatic improvements to the toolpath on all geometry
The effects of smoothing can be seen in the before and after images shown above and below. The images above show the benefits of smoothing tilt axis movement while rotary axis smoothing is shown left. In both cases a smoother transition with fewer tilt and rotational changes can be seen giving a much better toolpath and surface finish
David Plater, Technical Director for ModuleWorks comments “We’re constantly looking for innovations to improve toolpath quality and these latest smoothing methods have done just that. We’re seeing more demand for 5-Axis machining on STL geometry and the triangulation presents some additional challenges to our developers – advanced smoothing methods are some of the solution to these challenges”
3-5 Axis toolpath conversion is a well established machining method and good when machining deep cores and cavities. By tilting the tool over during cutting, collisions can be avoided and shorter series cutters can be employed which leads to improved surface finish
ModuleWorks continue to innovate in this area with recent releases offering a host of new features to increase automation and increase performance and toolpath quality. The latest versions can also be used with STL (mesh) as well as traditional surface geometry
The recent 2009.9 release has introduced new smoothing methods that can be applied to both the tilt and rotary elements of the toolpath. Originally a requirement for STL data where triangulation can give inconsistencies in the toolpath, the new smoothing delivers dramatic improvements to the toolpath on all geometry
The effects of smoothing can be seen in the before and after images shown above and below. The images above show the benefits of smoothing tilt axis movement while rotary axis smoothing is shown left. In both cases a smoother transition with fewer tilt and rotational changes can be seen giving a much better toolpath and surface finish
David Plater, Technical Director for ModuleWorks comments “We’re constantly looking for innovations to improve toolpath quality and these latest smoothing methods have done just that. We’re seeing more demand for 5-Axis machining on STL geometry and the triangulation presents some additional challenges to our developers – advanced smoothing methods are some of the solution to these challenges”
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With acquisition of AdvaTech Manufacturing, 3D Systems Extends Reach Into Aerospace and Defense
ROCK HILL, S.C- 3D Systems Corporation, a provider of 3-D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, announced today that it acquired the assets of AdvaTech Manufacturing, a provider of rapid prototyping and manufacturing services to the aerospace and defense industries.
AdvaTech Manufacturing, based in Goodland, Indiana, is ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100B certified. James Butler, owner of AdvaTech, joined 3D Systems as director of its 3Dproparts(TM) Selective Laser Sintering Manufacturing operations.
3D Systems launched 3Dproparts(TM), the world's largest Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing parts service, on October 1, 2009. The company plans to continue to expand its 3Dproparts(TM) service offerings by bringing together the widest range of production and additive grade materials and the latest additive and traditional manufacturing systems to deliver to its customers the broadest available range of precision plastic and metal parts and assemblies. The acquisition of AdvaTech Manufacturing enhances 3Dproparts(TM) Selective Laser Sintering manufacturing capabilities and expands the company's reach into aerospace and defense production for commercial and military applications.
"We are pleased to add a reputable certified aerospace and defense manufacturer of AdvaTech's caliber to our expanding 3Dproparts(TM) service," said Abe Reichental, President and CEO of 3D Systems. "Under Jim Butler's capable leadership, we intend to expand our Selective Laser Sintering manufacturing capacity and capabilities for the benefit of our aerospace and defense customers."
AdvaTech Manufacturing, based in Goodland, Indiana, is ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100B certified. James Butler, owner of AdvaTech, joined 3D Systems as director of its 3Dproparts(TM) Selective Laser Sintering Manufacturing operations.
3D Systems launched 3Dproparts(TM), the world's largest Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing parts service, on October 1, 2009. The company plans to continue to expand its 3Dproparts(TM) service offerings by bringing together the widest range of production and additive grade materials and the latest additive and traditional manufacturing systems to deliver to its customers the broadest available range of precision plastic and metal parts and assemblies. The acquisition of AdvaTech Manufacturing enhances 3Dproparts(TM) Selective Laser Sintering manufacturing capabilities and expands the company's reach into aerospace and defense production for commercial and military applications.
"We are pleased to add a reputable certified aerospace and defense manufacturer of AdvaTech's caliber to our expanding 3Dproparts(TM) service," said Abe Reichental, President and CEO of 3D Systems. "Under Jim Butler's capable leadership, we intend to expand our Selective Laser Sintering manufacturing capacity and capabilities for the benefit of our aerospace and defense customers."
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CimatronE Selected to Highlight "Automation in Mold and Tool Making" at Euromold
GIVAT SHMUEL- Cimatron Limited announced that CimatronE will be included in a special feature show about automation in mold and tool making at Euromold, December 2nd-5th, in Frankfurt, Germany.
The special feature show on automation will take place in hall 8.0. CimatronE, a solution tailored to suit the needs of mold and die makers, has been chosen to participate in the show because of its impressive range of automatic features, allowing users to significantly speed up their tool design and manufacturing.
With this special show, EuroMold plans to show attendees current possibilities of automation within mold making and tooling. Eight machines will demonstrate the fully automatic process and the interaction of diverging technologies within one production cell. Each production cell will include a handling device with cartridges, two milling machines, two measuring machines, one washing plant and two EDM machines.
CimatronE has been developed on the principle of flexible automation. This means that while many tasks can be accomplished faster using automatic features, the user is in control of their process and can choose at any time to override all automatic functions, providing the tool maker with complete freedom.
CimatronE's automatic features include a wide range of tools dedicated to mold design. These tools help split the part and design the cavity, as well as streamline the assembly process and assist users in the design of runners, cooling channels, sliders and ejectors. Analysis tools are also available to help ensure the part's design is optimal for injection molding and to help tool makers handle last minute changes.
The CimatronE product line also includes an integrated solution for Electrode design and manufacture, which was praised by CIMdata as one of the most advanced available. The solution allows for swift design of electrodes and offers templates and other tools to speed up work.
NC programming (2.5-5-Axis) takes place in the same environment as design and is optimized for tool making, with several milling strategies that help the user achieve a high surface quality.
"We are proud of the balance we have reached with regards to automation and we believe this is why Euromold has chosen CimatronE for its feature show," said Dirk Dombert, General Manager of Cimatron GmbH. "Automation is useful because it can significantly reduce delivery time. On the other hand, no tool maker wants to give up control of their design and manufacturing processes to a wizard that claims to know best. With CimatronE's flexible automation, users take advantage of automation to speed up their manufacturing and always remain in complete control of their process."
Cimatron GmbH will demonstrate its two product lines at Euromold, CimatronE and GibbsCAM, catering to all manufacturing sectors and offering specialized solutions for mold and die makers, as well as solutions for 2.5-5-Axis production milling and turning (hall 8, booth F70).
The special feature show on automation will take place in hall 8.0. CimatronE, a solution tailored to suit the needs of mold and die makers, has been chosen to participate in the show because of its impressive range of automatic features, allowing users to significantly speed up their tool design and manufacturing.
With this special show, EuroMold plans to show attendees current possibilities of automation within mold making and tooling. Eight machines will demonstrate the fully automatic process and the interaction of diverging technologies within one production cell. Each production cell will include a handling device with cartridges, two milling machines, two measuring machines, one washing plant and two EDM machines.
CimatronE has been developed on the principle of flexible automation. This means that while many tasks can be accomplished faster using automatic features, the user is in control of their process and can choose at any time to override all automatic functions, providing the tool maker with complete freedom.
CimatronE's automatic features include a wide range of tools dedicated to mold design. These tools help split the part and design the cavity, as well as streamline the assembly process and assist users in the design of runners, cooling channels, sliders and ejectors. Analysis tools are also available to help ensure the part's design is optimal for injection molding and to help tool makers handle last minute changes.
The CimatronE product line also includes an integrated solution for Electrode design and manufacture, which was praised by CIMdata as one of the most advanced available. The solution allows for swift design of electrodes and offers templates and other tools to speed up work.
NC programming (2.5-5-Axis) takes place in the same environment as design and is optimized for tool making, with several milling strategies that help the user achieve a high surface quality.
"We are proud of the balance we have reached with regards to automation and we believe this is why Euromold has chosen CimatronE for its feature show," said Dirk Dombert, General Manager of Cimatron GmbH. "Automation is useful because it can significantly reduce delivery time. On the other hand, no tool maker wants to give up control of their design and manufacturing processes to a wizard that claims to know best. With CimatronE's flexible automation, users take advantage of automation to speed up their manufacturing and always remain in complete control of their process."
Cimatron GmbH will demonstrate its two product lines at Euromold, CimatronE and GibbsCAM, catering to all manufacturing sectors and offering specialized solutions for mold and die makers, as well as solutions for 2.5-5-Axis production milling and turning (hall 8, booth F70).
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Nov 24, 2009
Paul A. Lacy appointed to PTC's Board of Directors
NEEDHAM, Mass -PTC today announced the appointment of Paul A. Lacy to its Board of Directors.
“We look forward to Paul joining PTC, as we continue to build out our board of directors in support of our long-term strategy,” said C. Richard Harrison, chairman and chief executive officer, PTC. “Paul’s strong technology and financial background will be an asset for PTC as we focus on driving sustainable EPS growth driven primarily by organic revenue growth.”
Most recently, Mr. Lacy served as president and secretary at Kronos, Inc., serving as president from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Lacy also held chief financial officer and other senior finance roles at Kronos from 1988 to 2005. Prior to Kronos, Mr. Lacy held senior finance positions at Remanco Systems Corporation, Bird, Inc., and Bose Corporation. He holds a JD from Boston College Law School and BS in Accounting from Boston College.
Mr. Lacy commented, “I am looking forward to joining the board of a recognized leader in the PLM space. PTC’s market and product positioning, in addition to its strong financial position, support a compelling strategy to generate long-term shareholder value.”
Mr. Lacy’s appointment is effective December 1, 2009. Mr. Lacy also serves on the Board of International Decision Systems, Inc.
“We look forward to Paul joining PTC, as we continue to build out our board of directors in support of our long-term strategy,” said C. Richard Harrison, chairman and chief executive officer, PTC. “Paul’s strong technology and financial background will be an asset for PTC as we focus on driving sustainable EPS growth driven primarily by organic revenue growth.”
Most recently, Mr. Lacy served as president and secretary at Kronos, Inc., serving as president from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Lacy also held chief financial officer and other senior finance roles at Kronos from 1988 to 2005. Prior to Kronos, Mr. Lacy held senior finance positions at Remanco Systems Corporation, Bird, Inc., and Bose Corporation. He holds a JD from Boston College Law School and BS in Accounting from Boston College.
Mr. Lacy commented, “I am looking forward to joining the board of a recognized leader in the PLM space. PTC’s market and product positioning, in addition to its strong financial position, support a compelling strategy to generate long-term shareholder value.”
Mr. Lacy’s appointment is effective December 1, 2009. Mr. Lacy also serves on the Board of International Decision Systems, Inc.
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PTC
NASSCOM Global Engineering Leadership Summit 2009 showcased opportunities in Engineering Services
The NASSCOM Global Engineering Leadership Summit 2009, held on the 17-18th of November in Mumbai, showcased global and local opportunities in Engineering Services and the opportunities available for India to build a US$50 billion plus market by 2020.
Engineering services potential far greater than IT services or BPO
Last year, India held a 25 percent market share in the nine billion dollar global engineering services business.
In the opening session, Vikas Sehgal, Vice President of Booz and Company presented the interim study of engineering Services.
He also highlighted how India is being looked by the global market to play a significant role in providing high end engineering and cutting edge technology solutions and products in diverse verticals. According to him engineering services could help add 2 percent to the GDP of the country.
global sourcing to global partnership mindset
He stressed on the need to evolve new partnership models in the innovation and engineering space, instead of replicating the IT services model.
The study would be unveiled at the NASSCOM Leadership Summit to be held here in February 2010.
Mr Som Mittal, President of NASSCOM in his inaugural speech reiterated the need to evolve new models of partnership in the space of innovation and engineering.
Mr Ed Tse, of Booz and Company who gave a quick view of how Chinese companies achieve success without following conventional wisdom and develop competitive advantage through innovation.
According to Sehgal, India needs to address the markets rightly besides enhancing its capability to retain its top position. Stiff competition is emerging from countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Malaysia.
Mr Krishna Mikkilineni presented an overview of the way forward of the Engineering services forum.
Other speakers at the event included Dr. Ajay Prabhu, Chief Operating Officer - QuEST Global ; Mr. Ajay Garg, Head - Equirus Capital ; Dr. Ardhendu G. Pathak, President & CEO - GE India Innovation Centre ; Mr. Arun Aravindan, Wipro Limited ; Mr. Atul Khanna, Director - Tooltech Group ; Mr. Bejoy George, Chief Marketing Officer - QuEST ; Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director and CEO - Infotech Enterprises Ltd ; Mr. D. K. Jain, NTPC ; Ms. Divya C Bhatt, Head – Corporate Strategy - L&T Integrated Engineering Services (IES) ; Dr. Edward Tse, Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Greater China - Booz & Company ; Mr. Gavin Donkin, Vice President, Advanced Technology and Innovation - Honeywell Turbocharger Technologies ; Mr. Girish Wardadkar, President and Executive Director - KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd ; Mr. Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director - Onward Technologies Limited ; Mr. Ian Taylor, General Manager Rolls Royce Operations India Pvt Ltd ; Mr. John S Groholski, Engineering Director – Mechanical Systems & Externals - Pratt Whitney ; Mr. Karthikeyan Natarajan, Vice President & Global Head - Integrated Engineering Solutions ; Dr. Keshab Panda, Chief Executive Officer - L & T IES; Mr. Ketan Bakshi Founder, Chairman & Managing Director - Neilsoft; Dr. Krishna Mikkilineni, President & Managing Director - Honeywell Technology Solutions ; Shri. M. Mangapati Pallam Raju, M.P. Minister of State for DEFENCE - Government of India; Mr. Mahesh R Patel, Pratt & Whitney ; Mr. Manish Bhatnagar, Director - Sales & Marketing - Underwriters Laboratories (UL) India ; Shri Prithviraj Chavan ; Mr. Rajabahadur V Arcot, Director, South and South East Asia Operations ARC Advisory Group ; Mr. Regu Ayyaswamy, Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS)- TCS ; Mr. S. D. Shibulal, Co-Founder and MOB - Infosys Technologies ; Mr. Samir Yajnik, President Global Services & COO Asia-Pacific - Tata Technologies Limited ; Mr. Sandilya Gopalan Asst. Vice President - Cognizant Business Consulting ; Mr. Santhosh Kumar, General Manager-ASP India Software, TI India ; Mr. Som Mittal, President - NASSCOM ; Prof. Sujit Banerji, Professor of Operations Management and Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes WMG, University of Warwick ; Mr. Sunil Sachan Principal - Booz & Company ; Dr. T. S. Krishnamurthy (TSK), Vice President – Engineering Design Services - Wipro Technologies ; Dr. V. Sumantran Executive Vice Chairman - Hinduja Automotive Limited, UK ; Mr. Valmeeka Nathan Head - Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions - Infosys Technologies Ltd ; Mr. Vikas Sehgal, Vice President and Director of India Business Chicago & Mumbai - Booz & Company ; Mr. Vimal Kapur, Managing Director - Honeywell Automation India Ltd ; Mr. Vipul Vachhani, Jaivel Technologies Europe Limited, UK.
The Hon Minister of State for Defence Mr Pallam Raju stressed on the need for public and private partnership.
Sessions on value creation, new and innovative models on engineering, global demand supply, sustainable growth, ‘Branding India’ to the world were significant with the audience actively participating.
Engineering services potential far greater than IT services or BPO
Last year, India held a 25 percent market share in the nine billion dollar global engineering services business.
In the opening session, Vikas Sehgal, Vice President of Booz and Company presented the interim study of engineering Services.
He also highlighted how India is being looked by the global market to play a significant role in providing high end engineering and cutting edge technology solutions and products in diverse verticals. According to him engineering services could help add 2 percent to the GDP of the country.
global sourcing to global partnership mindset
He stressed on the need to evolve new partnership models in the innovation and engineering space, instead of replicating the IT services model.
The study would be unveiled at the NASSCOM Leadership Summit to be held here in February 2010.
Mr Som Mittal, President of NASSCOM in his inaugural speech reiterated the need to evolve new models of partnership in the space of innovation and engineering.
Mr Ed Tse, of Booz and Company who gave a quick view of how Chinese companies achieve success without following conventional wisdom and develop competitive advantage through innovation.
According to Sehgal, India needs to address the markets rightly besides enhancing its capability to retain its top position. Stiff competition is emerging from countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Malaysia.
Mr Krishna Mikkilineni presented an overview of the way forward of the Engineering services forum.
Other speakers at the event included Dr. Ajay Prabhu, Chief Operating Officer - QuEST Global ; Mr. Ajay Garg, Head - Equirus Capital ; Dr. Ardhendu G. Pathak, President & CEO - GE India Innovation Centre ; Mr. Arun Aravindan, Wipro Limited ; Mr. Atul Khanna, Director - Tooltech Group ; Mr. Bejoy George, Chief Marketing Officer - QuEST ; Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director and CEO - Infotech Enterprises Ltd ; Mr. D. K. Jain, NTPC ; Ms. Divya C Bhatt, Head – Corporate Strategy - L&T Integrated Engineering Services (IES) ; Dr. Edward Tse, Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Greater China - Booz & Company ; Mr. Gavin Donkin, Vice President, Advanced Technology and Innovation - Honeywell Turbocharger Technologies ; Mr. Girish Wardadkar, President and Executive Director - KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd ; Mr. Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director - Onward Technologies Limited ; Mr. Ian Taylor, General Manager Rolls Royce Operations India Pvt Ltd ; Mr. John S Groholski, Engineering Director – Mechanical Systems & Externals - Pratt Whitney ; Mr. Karthikeyan Natarajan, Vice President & Global Head - Integrated Engineering Solutions ; Dr. Keshab Panda, Chief Executive Officer - L & T IES; Mr. Ketan Bakshi Founder, Chairman & Managing Director - Neilsoft; Dr. Krishna Mikkilineni, President & Managing Director - Honeywell Technology Solutions ; Shri. M. Mangapati Pallam Raju, M.P. Minister of State for DEFENCE - Government of India; Mr. Mahesh R Patel, Pratt & Whitney ; Mr. Manish Bhatnagar, Director - Sales & Marketing - Underwriters Laboratories (UL) India ; Shri Prithviraj Chavan ; Mr. Rajabahadur V Arcot, Director, South and South East Asia Operations ARC Advisory Group ; Mr. Regu Ayyaswamy, Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS)- TCS ; Mr. S. D. Shibulal, Co-Founder and MOB - Infosys Technologies ; Mr. Samir Yajnik, President Global Services & COO Asia-Pacific - Tata Technologies Limited ; Mr. Sandilya Gopalan Asst. Vice President - Cognizant Business Consulting ; Mr. Santhosh Kumar, General Manager-ASP India Software, TI India ; Mr. Som Mittal, President - NASSCOM ; Prof. Sujit Banerji, Professor of Operations Management and Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes WMG, University of Warwick ; Mr. Sunil Sachan Principal - Booz & Company ; Dr. T. S. Krishnamurthy (TSK), Vice President – Engineering Design Services - Wipro Technologies ; Dr. V. Sumantran Executive Vice Chairman - Hinduja Automotive Limited, UK ; Mr. Valmeeka Nathan Head - Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions - Infosys Technologies Ltd ; Mr. Vikas Sehgal, Vice President and Director of India Business Chicago & Mumbai - Booz & Company ; Mr. Vimal Kapur, Managing Director - Honeywell Automation India Ltd ; Mr. Vipul Vachhani, Jaivel Technologies Europe Limited, UK.
The Hon Minister of State for Defence Mr Pallam Raju stressed on the need for public and private partnership.
Sessions on value creation, new and innovative models on engineering, global demand supply, sustainable growth, ‘Branding India’ to the world were significant with the audience actively participating.
LMS International releases LMS Virtual.Lab Rev 9 with BEM, FEM & ray tracing capabilities
Leuven, Belgium – LMS, the engineering innovation company, has released the latest version of its integrated solution for 3D functional performance simulation: LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9. A milestone release, the LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9 software suite is filled with brand-new performance capabilities and breakthrough technology to ramp up engineering productivity, most notably with new BEM and FEM capabilities and a brand-new ray tracing solution in LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics. Dedicated industrial application solutions found in LMS Virtual.Lab Motion have been significantly enhanced for improved usability as well, while the new thermal fatigue solution in LMS Virtual.Lab Durability and the MADYMO coupling safety feature in LMS Virtual.Lab Structures are clearly breakthrough solutions in their respective simulation markets.
“We are very excited about LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9. Of course, it provides major advantages for all types of performance engineering in general, but I really must say, for the acoustics market, we kicked it up a notch. Not only did we massively broaden the suite’s FEM capabilities, but we also enhanced our unique BEM technology. These breakthrough developments show why we’re the acoustic simulation market leader,” stated Stefaan Goossens, Vice-President Simulation at LMS International.
In addition to the extensive work on LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics, LMS Virtual.Lab Motion has been extended with key industrial applications for driving dynamics, aerospace, wind, powertrain noise & vibration, tracked vehicle and a superior 1D/3D co-simulation methodology for mechatronics system-level simulation.
Especially for thermal applications, LMS Virtual.Lab Durability’s new thermal fatigue feature helps engineers analyze the impact of changing temperatures on fatigue behavior to accurately evaluate fatigue on vital engine parts, exhaust systems and turbo chargers.
For the transportation safety market, the new coupling with MADYMO occupant safety software permits users to easily position MADYMO crash test dummies, and by integrating the MADYMO crash test dummy with the vehicle FE model, users can perform complete occupant safety simulations.
LMS customers with active service contracts are currently receiving their upgrades. LMS users interested in the latest version should contact their local LMS representative or see www.lmsintl.com/virtuallab-rev9 for more information.
“We are very excited about LMS Virtual.Lab Revision 9. Of course, it provides major advantages for all types of performance engineering in general, but I really must say, for the acoustics market, we kicked it up a notch. Not only did we massively broaden the suite’s FEM capabilities, but we also enhanced our unique BEM technology. These breakthrough developments show why we’re the acoustic simulation market leader,” stated Stefaan Goossens, Vice-President Simulation at LMS International.
In addition to the extensive work on LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics, LMS Virtual.Lab Motion has been extended with key industrial applications for driving dynamics, aerospace, wind, powertrain noise & vibration, tracked vehicle and a superior 1D/3D co-simulation methodology for mechatronics system-level simulation.
Especially for thermal applications, LMS Virtual.Lab Durability’s new thermal fatigue feature helps engineers analyze the impact of changing temperatures on fatigue behavior to accurately evaluate fatigue on vital engine parts, exhaust systems and turbo chargers.
For the transportation safety market, the new coupling with MADYMO occupant safety software permits users to easily position MADYMO crash test dummies, and by integrating the MADYMO crash test dummy with the vehicle FE model, users can perform complete occupant safety simulations.
LMS customers with active service contracts are currently receiving their upgrades. LMS users interested in the latest version should contact their local LMS representative or see www.lmsintl.com/virtuallab-rev9 for more information.
CD-adapco and Access unveil STAR-Cast, a mould breaking tool for industrial Casting Simulation
Aachen: CD-adapco and Access have announced the first public release of STAR-Cast, a new tool that revolutionizes industrial casting simulation. Developed in collaboration between a world leading provider of CAE technology and recognized international experts in casting and metallurgy, STAR-Cast brings unrivalled ease-of-use and automation to the simulation of casting processes, and introduces a new level of multi-disciplinary sophistication to simulation results.
Based around the advanced technology that powers CD-adapco’s leading CAE software tools STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD, STAR-Cast provides a comprehensive process for multiphase casting simulation - liquid, solid and gaseous –including conjugate heat transfer, a sharp resolution of the filling front, free-surface fragmentation, motion of trapped gas bubbles in melt, natural convection in melt and gas.
“STAR-Cast is an entirely new concept in Casting Simulation that for the first time places industrial strength simulation technology in the hands of foundrymen, casting designers and tool makers,” says CD-adapco President Steve MacDonald. “The partnership between CD-adapco and ACCESS has resulted in a formidable tool that I sincerely believe will lead to unprecedented levels of innovation and cost-reduction in industrial casting.”
Access Managing Director Robert Guntlin says, “STAR-Cast is a best practice example for excellence in science demonstrated in application. The joint knowledge from CAE technologies, materials research and metal casting processes opens the door to a new realm of simulation technology in industrial casting”.
STAR-Cast is a true compelling engineering simulation solution for a broad range of casting processes:
+ Gravity Sand Casting
+ Gravity (tilting) Die Casting
+ Low pressure and Counter Pressure Casting
+ Centrifugal Casting
+ Continuous Casting
Based around the advanced technology that powers CD-adapco’s leading CAE software tools STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD, STAR-Cast provides a comprehensive process for multiphase casting simulation - liquid, solid and gaseous –including conjugate heat transfer, a sharp resolution of the filling front, free-surface fragmentation, motion of trapped gas bubbles in melt, natural convection in melt and gas.
“STAR-Cast is an entirely new concept in Casting Simulation that for the first time places industrial strength simulation technology in the hands of foundrymen, casting designers and tool makers,” says CD-adapco President Steve MacDonald. “The partnership between CD-adapco and ACCESS has resulted in a formidable tool that I sincerely believe will lead to unprecedented levels of innovation and cost-reduction in industrial casting.”
Access Managing Director Robert Guntlin says, “STAR-Cast is a best practice example for excellence in science demonstrated in application. The joint knowledge from CAE technologies, materials research and metal casting processes opens the door to a new realm of simulation technology in industrial casting”.
STAR-Cast is a true compelling engineering simulation solution for a broad range of casting processes:
+ Gravity Sand Casting
+ Gravity (tilting) Die Casting
+ Low pressure and Counter Pressure Casting
+ Centrifugal Casting
+ Continuous Casting
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CD-adapco
VoluMill to be integrated in SigmaNEST™ V10 for woodworking and aluminum fabrication
CAVE CREEK, AZ – SigmaTEK Systems announced that it will integrate the high-speed machining toolpath engine VoluMill™ in its SigmaNEST™ V10 product for woodworking and aluminum fabrication, according to a recently signed agreement with Celeritive Technologies, the developer of VoluMill.
Expected to be available in early 2010, SigmaNEST V10 powered by VoluMill will combine SigmaNEST’s ability to optimize parts nesting for minimum waste and minimum machine movement with VoluMill’s technology that generates toolpaths with smooth machining motions and minimum force on the spindle and cutting tool. VoluMill toolpaths dramatically reduce cycle times and significantly extend the life of cutting tools.
Manufacturers of wood and aluminum sheet products often secure parts with air suction, a method that is susceptible to abrupt sideways movements by the tool into the part wall. VoluMill’s smooth, continuous toolpaths eliminate this problem.
“The combined system, although primarily targeted for wood routing, will work just as effectively for aluminum part routing,” says Glenn Binder, SigmaTEK’s vice president of sales. “The inclusion of VoluMill further enhances SigmaNEST’s pocket-milling capability. Furthermore, the software programming is intuitive making it easy to produce programs for production.”
Larry Lynott, Celeritive Technologies’ vice president of sales, reveals, “Although VoluMill was developed primarily for the metal manufacturing market segment, this agreement introduces our innovative technology to woodworking and aluminum sheet metal fabrication, which demonstrates that a good technology often translates from one industry to another.”
Expected to be available in early 2010, SigmaNEST V10 powered by VoluMill will combine SigmaNEST’s ability to optimize parts nesting for minimum waste and minimum machine movement with VoluMill’s technology that generates toolpaths with smooth machining motions and minimum force on the spindle and cutting tool. VoluMill toolpaths dramatically reduce cycle times and significantly extend the life of cutting tools.
Manufacturers of wood and aluminum sheet products often secure parts with air suction, a method that is susceptible to abrupt sideways movements by the tool into the part wall. VoluMill’s smooth, continuous toolpaths eliminate this problem.
“The combined system, although primarily targeted for wood routing, will work just as effectively for aluminum part routing,” says Glenn Binder, SigmaTEK’s vice president of sales. “The inclusion of VoluMill further enhances SigmaNEST’s pocket-milling capability. Furthermore, the software programming is intuitive making it easy to produce programs for production.”
Larry Lynott, Celeritive Technologies’ vice president of sales, reveals, “Although VoluMill was developed primarily for the metal manufacturing market segment, this agreement introduces our innovative technology to woodworking and aluminum sheet metal fabrication, which demonstrates that a good technology often translates from one industry to another.”
Lightweight suspension of solar-powered car optimized with LMS Virtual.Lab Motion
Leuven, Belgium – LMS announced today that it is again one of the lead sponsors and engineering partner of the Belgian Umicore solar team. Through this sponsorship, LMS is actively supporting the team’s participation in the World Solar Challenge. The Umicore solar team consists of 14 students and graduate students from Groep T, one of Belgium’s leading engineering schools. The solar team successfully designed, engineered and built a world-class solar car, the Umicar Inspire, to compete in the world championship for solar cars, to be held in Australia from the 25th until the 31st of October, 2009.
Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen, chairman and CEO of LMS International, “We are delighted to support the Groep T students with this project. The Umicar Inspire promotes Belgian high-tech capabilities. The project showcases the current possibilities of renewable energy as a commercial power source and to create awareness about the limitations of classic energy sources. We wish the whole team a very successful race in Australia and hope they win.”
The solar team already participated twice in the World Solar Race; once in 2005 when they finished eleventh and a second time in 2007, when they managed to capture second place. For the 2009 edition, Groep T formed a new team of young engineers to build on the success of the previous teams and build a winning solar car.
LMS has actively supported the solar team in developing and building the Umicar Inspire. The car’s suspension system is based on a three-wheeler construction. The two-wheel front suspension is fitted with a specially designed, raised double wishbone suspension. The rear wheel is suspended with the help of an optimized swing arm. To engineer this unconventional setup, the students used LMS Virtual.Lab Motion. This LMS simulation tool helped them quickly evaluate the dynamic performance of different design alternatives, efficiently define the hard points of the suspension and dimension the different key components. The virtual testing of the suspension was very promising and during the test drives, the car showed a very stable and efficient behavior on the road.
The World Solar Challenge has become part of the broader Global Green Challenge. The Global Green Challenge is a platform and testing ground for the next generation of vehicle technology. It is a trial and exhibition of ecologically friendly vehicles through the heart of Australia’s iconic landscape, stretching 3,000 km from Darwin to Adelaide.
Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen, chairman and CEO of LMS International, “We are delighted to support the Groep T students with this project. The Umicar Inspire promotes Belgian high-tech capabilities. The project showcases the current possibilities of renewable energy as a commercial power source and to create awareness about the limitations of classic energy sources. We wish the whole team a very successful race in Australia and hope they win.”
The solar team already participated twice in the World Solar Race; once in 2005 when they finished eleventh and a second time in 2007, when they managed to capture second place. For the 2009 edition, Groep T formed a new team of young engineers to build on the success of the previous teams and build a winning solar car.
LMS has actively supported the solar team in developing and building the Umicar Inspire. The car’s suspension system is based on a three-wheeler construction. The two-wheel front suspension is fitted with a specially designed, raised double wishbone suspension. The rear wheel is suspended with the help of an optimized swing arm. To engineer this unconventional setup, the students used LMS Virtual.Lab Motion. This LMS simulation tool helped them quickly evaluate the dynamic performance of different design alternatives, efficiently define the hard points of the suspension and dimension the different key components. The virtual testing of the suspension was very promising and during the test drives, the car showed a very stable and efficient behavior on the road.
The World Solar Challenge has become part of the broader Global Green Challenge. The Global Green Challenge is a platform and testing ground for the next generation of vehicle technology. It is a trial and exhibition of ecologically friendly vehicles through the heart of Australia’s iconic landscape, stretching 3,000 km from Darwin to Adelaide.
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