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By Design News Staff -- Design News, January 10, 2005
SIMULATION SOFTWARE
New functionalities
MSC.Dynamic Designer is now available for Autodesk Inventor 9 and Solid Edge 16. It reportedly uses the MSC.ADAMS motion simulation technology to provide users with the ability to understand critical performance information about a design without leaving the user's preferred CAD environment or performing a physical test. New functionalities include faceted contact, bushings, improved solution engine, degree of freedom calculation and redundant constraint removal, and improved online help. MSC.Softwarehttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-646
SOFTWARE
With CFD and mesh creation
ANSYS 9.0 is reportedly the first software release featuring electromagnetic, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and mesh creation technologies integrated within the company's Workbench™ product development environment. Its modern architecture is designed to be easy to use, allowing companies to be more productive by eliminating the manual file transfer, result translation, and reanalysis, saving time and money. ANSYS Inc.http://rbi.ims.ca/4385-647
WHITE PAPER
Available on website
A new white paper, Model Manager: Managing Design Data in the Interconnected Enterprise, is available at the company's website. It reportedly leverages the power of XML Web services to tie into service-oriented architectures that link together the company's design environments with enterprise applications. CoCreatehttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-648
SERVER
Extreme performance
The FlexPCServer Series is a performance briefcase notebook and mobile server with Single or Dual Xeon™ to 3.06 GHz. It reportedly offers extreme performance computing in a portable form for the most mission-critical applications. According to the company, it provides maximum flexibility with up to three internal media bays; flexible external storage options via 160 Mbytes/sec SCSI, Fiber Channel, serial ATA and USB 2.0, and dual Gigabit Ethernet; and removable internal storage to 200 Gbytes. It features a 15-inch TFT 1600 ×1200 LCD and three-button touch pad full-function keyboard. NextComhttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-649
SYSTEM DESIGN SOFTWARE
Recently updated
The Nexar system design software has been updated to support v4.2 of the company's Quartus® II development software. It is reportedly a comprehensive, vendor-independent, electronic design solution that enables engineers to build complete processor-based digital systems on FPGAs, using existing board-level design methodologies. The product's design methodology—LiveDesign—reportedly enables real-time communication with active devices in the circuit that are running inside the target FPGA. Altium Limitedhttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-650
FEA DISTANCE LEARNING
Subscription-based
Designed to allow engineers to learn the principles of finite element analysis and ALGOR software at their computer and at their own pace, the company is offering a subscription-based program for distance-learning Web courses. They are reportedly high-quality audio/video productions in which expert instructors provide ALGOR software training. Users can avoid travel costs and time outside the office required with traditional classroom learning. ALGOR Inc.http://rbi.ims.ca/4385-651
ONLINE CATALOG
More than 75,000 models
The company is using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET® service, reportedly enabling customers to choose conveyors based on exact specifications for their assembly lines in minutes, rather than in days. It is designed to enable engineers and designers from around the world to custom-configure conveyors, and to download a 3D model of that configuration in the design format of the user's choice. This will reportedly ensure that it will fit into the user's floor plans. Dorner Manufacturinghttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-652
UPGRADE PROGRAM
Preview in seminars
The company will preview in seminars its upgrade program for AutoCAD 2000i and AutoCAD LT 2000i users facing Autodesk's retirement of these products. Included in the seminars will be presentations and demonstrations of MicroStation PowerDraft and MicroStation products. Bentley Systems Inc.http://rbi.ims.ca/4385-653
SOFTWARE
Extends ability
Document3D Service Pack 1 is designed to directly create printed manuals from CAD files. It reportedly seamlessly simplifies the software's ability to support printed documents, as well as interactive documents. Benefits include quick updates, improved print capabilities, improved associativity between page-layout product and model editing product, familiar SolidWorks™ and Inventor™ mouse modes, and additional markup tools including quick right-click addition of markups and custom balloons. QuadriSpace Corp.http://rbi.ims.ca/4385-654
PLM TECHNOLOGY
E-mail-enabled
Reportedly the first e-mail-enabled communication tool that allows the sharing of 2D and 3D CAD data, eDrawings creates files that are compact and easy to e-mail, according to the company. An eDrawings file is reportedly 95 percent smaller than the original CAD file, and it is highly interactive. Users can share product designs with review-enabled eDrawings and collaborate with their extended teams, as well as receive feedback on product design data from an unlimited number of recipients. Users can also manage, track, and merge comments from different team members, among other things. Geometric Softwarehttp://rbi.ims.ca/4385-655
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