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intrinSIM Recognized as Best Engineering Software Broker
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intrinSIM wins Technology Innovator Award
CV Magazine awarded intrinSIM the award for Best Engineering Software Brokerage - USA in their 2017 Technology Innovator Awards.
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ASSESS 2017 Congress Announced
ASSESS 2017 is the second annual ASSESS Congress, which will be held November 1-3, 2017 in Potomac, Maryland at the Bolger Center. The ASSESS 2017 Congress is being organized by the ASSESS Initiative to help shape the industry and product strategies for the next decade related to Engineering Simulation to enable the required “simulation revolution”. Those who participate in ASSESS 2017 will be an influential part of the process to shape the industry and product strategies.
Registration for the ASSESS 2017 Congress is by invitation only and is limited to 150 attendees. Those who have an invitation can register online at http://www.assessinitiative.com/registration/ and those interested participating who do not yet have an invitation may Contact the ASSESS Initiative to apply for an invitation.
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Cambashi CAE Observatory
Cambashi announced the launch of its latest market data resource, the Cambashi CAE Observatory. This observatory provides a comprehensive, quantitative view of the Computer Aided Engineering software market. The observatory ensures a sound basis for analyzing size, growth, movement and other trends to support market planning.
Cambashi has developed this new resource in collaboration with long-term partner intrinSIM. intrinSIM provides market planning services to help assess market potential, establish positioning, determine strategy and better prepare for taking a product or service to market. With a strong focus on the CAE and simulation market, intrinSIM brings additional insight to the primary research and robust market size and forecasting methods of Cambashi to deliver this latest offering.
The Cambashi CAE Observatory presents worldwide revenues for more than 470 non-EDA companies providing 2D and 3D CAE and physics simulation software. Revenues are presented in three key axes:
- Capability (Acoustics, Design Space Exploration (DSE), Electro-Magnetics (CEM), Fluids (CFD), Failure Modes, Manufacturing Processes, Multi-Body Dynamics (MBD) Kinematics, Multi-Physics, Optics, Plastics, Pre/Post, Simulation Data Management (SDM), Structures (CSM), Thermal)
- Application (AEC /Civil, Biomedical, Process & Piping, Materials, Mechanical Product Design, Geophysical /Climate, Shipbuilding & Maritime, and Vulnerability)
- Industry (AEC, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer Goods, High Tech, Machinery, Process /Pharma, Public Sector, Services, Telecoms /Utilities, Transportation)
The observatory details the revenues of each of the 470 named vendors in each of the three axes. So you could identify, for example, who are the fastest-growing vendors in Acoustics, or the largest competitors in the High Tech industry. Data for the CAE software market is included from 2014 to 2016, together with forecasts out to 2020.
For CAE market planners this resource provides a reliable, authoritative market view, enabling them to plan with real data, rather than relying on gut feel and estimates. That can make the difference between global buy-in to the plan or having key stakeholders walk away.
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Datakit announces the support of Creo Parametric 4.0
Datakit announces the support of the Creo Parametric brand new version 4.0, along with technical improvements to its technology. Datakit software are now able to read files from Pro/ENGINEER 2000i to Creo 4.0, to convert them in many 2D and 3D formats. CrossManager can translate Creo 4.0 files (.prt, .asm, .xpr, .xas, .drw) into more than twenty formats including extended support of data types from Creo to also include:.
- ModelDiplays (predefined views managing an entity filtering, an orientation and an eventual cutting plane) are now supported.
- Hole, Pattern and Pipe features are recovered, in parts as well as in assemblies. They are accompanied by semantical data, allowing to get technical information, such as, for instance, tolerances and profile of a hole.
- Connectors are retained. They link an entity with its geometry. This allow, for instance, to highlight an entity when selecting the associated PMI.
- PMI (Product Manufacturing Information), which were already supported in previous versions, have been improved in order to manage new ones. (FD&T, GD&T, 3D annotations, dimensions, surface finish…)
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New SOLIDWORKS export plug-in for Rhino
Datakit offers a new SOLIDWORKS export plug-in for Rhino. It completes its wide range of plug-ins for Rhinoceros software. This extension allows Rhino users to save their models as .sldprt and .sldasm files. The plug-in uses Datakit's writing technology. So users don't need to get a SOLIDWORKS license or to install SOLIDWORKS to make it work.
This add-on is perfect for Rhino users wishing to exchange their models with SOLIDWORKS users.
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C3D Toolkit 2017 from C3D Labs
C3D MODELER: THE GEOMETRIC KERNEL
The latest release of C3D Modeler has added several capabilities:
- removing holes and fillets from 3D models.This function is crucial to simplifying 3D models in preparation for further calculations using CAE
 (computer-aided engineering) software or processing by a CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) sy stem.Users can remove specified holes, or all holes whose radius does not exceed the specified value.
- specified fillets are removed, or those whose radius does not exceed the specified value. These functions effectively remove small holes and fillets whose presence unnecessarily increase analysis time.
- new combinations of fillets, such as for designing molds of varying complexity.
- a single extrusion operation now can
 include several closed contours, which can intersect one other.
- construction of bodies using sections with several guiding curves was significantly improved and it is now possible to construct thin-walled bodies using sections together with several guiding curves.
- calculating bodies by sections
- extended functions for working with sheet metal bodies, in particular operations for bending and unbending shell rings and it is now possible, when
 working with sheet bodies, to construct bends after selecting multiple edges, and then process angles between adjacent bends.
- constructs a median shell using predetermined pairs of body faces at an equal distance from the generating faces but users can make it offset by specifying a parameter. Several construction operations are available including automatic search and select of all suitable equidistant body faces that are offset relative to each other according to a specified parameter
- an extended file format to store the entire geometric model in a C3D file. This means that developers can extract data about the model's
 structure, even of individual objects, without needing to bring in the entire model from the file. When loading a 3D model, developers can define specific objects for to be read and then displayed on the screen. The new format is compatible with the previous C3D format.
- multiple functional improvements:
- operation for joining fillets of a constant chord length,
- algorithm for constructing curves at intersections of surfaces
- calculating the intersection curve of two spheres that touch each other at their poles
- searches for collisions between elements in the 3D model can now be stopped by users at the first collision
- speed of Boolean operations and of constructing NURBS curves with large numbers of points is improved
- multi-threaded operations have been expanded
- and more...
C3D SOLVER: THE PARAMETRIC KERNEL
C3D Solver parametric kernel defines relationships between elements of the geometric model. It does this by imposing geometric constraints with the help of equations. It supports 2D and 3D objects, and controls geometric models with the help of logical and dimensional constraints.
For this year's release, we substantially improved the software interface of the C3D Solver. Other improvements to C3D Solver 2017 include registering sub-objects for 3D models to be consistent with the concept of "geometrically rigid" clusters and so works correctly with large, complex assemblies of 3D models. The parametric kernel is now able to work with varying radii of different geometric objects -- circles, cylinders, tori, and spheres -- as well as scale linear and angular patterns.
Scaling linear and angular patterns
In recent years, one of the primary trends in the IT industry has been the migration of technology to the cloud. We took this trend seriously by writing a brand new product named "C3D Solver for JavaScript." What is unique about our solution is that any software based on it can be launched in a browser and, more importantly, it performs geometric calculations on the client side. C3D Solver is the first parametric kernel that works in a browser without the need for server-side calculations!
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EE Boost Selects C3D’s Toolkit for Simulation
EE Boost Inc. chose C3D Labs’ line of products for the development of its high-performance simulation software of wave behavior in acoustic, elastic, electronic, and photonic applications.
EE Boost notes that the API (application programming interface) is easy to understand and use with well-written documentation, .C3D Toolkit provides EE Boost ready-to-use functions for three-dimensional modeling, scenes and animations.. C3D Toolkit significantly improves the capabilities of EE Boost software by increasing the quality of 3D models, as well as speeding the processing of large assemblies.
One of the most important advantages for EE Boost is the C3D Toolkit support for many platforms, including Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android, both 32- and 64-bit systems – along with popular languages like C++ and C#.
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REDsdk 4.3: the sky is the limit
Cloud rendering solution
REDWAY3D put significant efforts in developing a rendering solution for clouds with REDsdk 4.3. Indeed, REDsdk could already simulate all types of skies, but clouds were missing. The possibility to get a true physically realistic cloudy sky with no effort (as the environment is completely generated by REDsdk), makes a huge difference in terms of realism. Obviously, this is a prerequisite for all outdoor renderings, but it also adds a lot of realism for indoor renderings specially when the model contains many reflective objects. REDsdk offers two different algorithms:
- True volumetric clouds: for a top-level realism where you need cloud to interact with your geometries
- Background clouds: based on artistic textures plates, ideal for environments as faster to process than the previous solution.
 
New ray-tracing algorithms
REDsdk 4.3 integrates new versions of three key algorithms used in ray-tracing, which are the “multiple importance sampling”, the “probabilistic light sampling” and the “adaptive ray-tracing”. All these algorithms target a unique goal, send fewer rays but sample directions in space which matter the most for a chosen rendering point of view. The result is quite astonishing, as the speed increase, while scene dependent, can easily reach a 300% gain or more for an equivalent quality.
New post-processing features
The set of post-processing effects available in REDsdk has been increased to include a new set of post-effects with sharpen, glow, blur and depth of field. Color manipulation controls have been added too like brightness / contrast, hue / saturation / lightness and input / output levels. The goal is to provide new tools to REDsdk based applications end-users that will enable them to retouch images completely without living their software, thus saving time and money.
Real-time improvements
A few enhancements were made in REDsdk 4.3 to enhance the lighting capabilities of the GPU:
- Portals are now visible and rendered by the GPU. Portals are considered as physical lights and are converted to the GPU as any other physical light.
- IES profiles are now visible and rendered, with no associated performance cost.
Other miscellaneous enhancements:
- Improvements have been made to optimize the management of huge dynamic scene graphs in REDsdk.
- Support for the HTC Vive VR helmet has also been added.
Better debug output
A new error tracking feature has been added to REDsdk to provide a better feedback on errors. Practically, the hosting application must declare a callback to gather errors at the time they happen. Depending on the kind of error that may occur in REDsdk, extra information is available to facilitate the debugging. At the same time, a REDsdk error log file is dumped in the binary folder of the application.
Stereoscopic panoramas
A new tutorial (creating stereoscopic panorama) has been added to show how REDsdk can be used to create stereoscopic panoramas images that can be then loaded to the Oculus or HTC Vive.
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simTOL Update Is Now Available
The latest update is simTOL® version 5.2.0. which is now available for all simTOL® users and interested parties who would like to test the software.
The new version provides software-internal optimizations with the aim of making the application as user-friendly and efficient as possible. casim would like to inform that the data format of simTOL® has been changed and casim’s software team recommends the installation of the new update in order to take adavntage of the new capabilities and optimizations.
- The user can now customize the possible parameters for the calculation files or quality features individually.
- the user can now choose between three predefined variables while creating or defining new elements and also in the tolerance data manager. A manually entered value is also possible.
- The tolerance data manager, the data input and the dimension sheets have been improved through several new functions and optimizations.
- Values are now dynamically adjusted in the reports and a column has been included in the results overview to allow a comparison of the different parameters.
simTOL® offers fast and reliable statistical tolerance analyses for 1D, 2D and 3D tolerance stack calculations enabling its users to influence product quality at an early stage in the development process to avoid unexpected and unnecessary production costs.
Companies around the world trust simTOL®
From Europe to the United States and Mexico through to distant countries like Malaysia – more and more users all over the globe realize the potential of simTOL®.
The renowned American company Stanley Black & Decker is only one example of casim’s satisfied customers. As a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security and engineered fastening systems we are glad that this prestigious company is numbered among our software users. Two years ago, they recognized their need of a software tool which helps them to carry out statistical tolerance analyses reliably and quickly. They were impressed and delighted when they learned about simTOL® and the excellent software service provided by casim.
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Multi-Mode Optimization for Sheet Metal Parts
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In the development of sheet metal parts various production processes like rolling (to get thickness variations), blanking (to cut out the final sheet), and beading (to generate beads for higher stiffness) are very important. In order to optimize sheet metal parts for weight and stiffness, these production processes have to be represented by suitable model modifications.
- The rolling process is implemented by the optimization method called free sizing to achieve variable sheet thicknesses.
- The blanking process is implemented by topology optimization, where an unambiguous selection of required elements is generated.
- For the stiffening of the sheet metal part, bead generation by shape optimization is available, where the nodes of the shell mesh are moved normal to the sheet to get the stiffening effect.
By applying the Multi-Modal Optimization (MMO) approach in PERMAS, all the optimization methods to model the manufacturing processes can be combined in one single optimization.
For more information on PERMAS, a Short Description is available here. More detailed information is available here.
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