intrinSIM Releases Generative Design Workflow Assessment Report for Autodesk Fusion 360

intrinSIM, a premier source of go-to-market services and technology licensing for engineering applications, has released an intrinSIM Market Report covering the assessment of the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design workflow. This market report provides an assessment of the Generative Design workflow based on the January 2020 version of Autodesk Fusion 360.
 
This assessment uses the capability assessment model related to the Key Capability Areas of Generative Design for General Applicability and their associated criteria outlined in the intrinSIM Market Report entitled “A Vision for Generative Design” which explores the potential paradigm shift enabled by Generative Design and what is required to enable that design paradigm shift. intrinSIM has developed a process with quantified assessment for each key capability area in the capability assessment model and criteria outlined in “A Vision for Generative Design.” This report looks at the assessment of the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design (Fusion 360 GD) workflow with respect to the Key Capability Areas of Generative Design for General Applicability and its suitability of Generative Design workflows for five (5) sample applications.
 
“Generative Design has the potential to dramatically change the design process as we know it. However, deployment of Generative Design is slow beyond the use by innovators as it is unclear to most if they can use Generative Design for their application,” says Joe Walsh, CEO of intrinSIM LLC.“This report sets a precedence in the Generative Design space by establishing a quantitative and objective means to evaluate workflow capabilities and requirements. The methodology used enables determination of the potential suitability of a specific Generative Design workflow for a specific application without the need for complex software evaluations.”
 
intrinSIM reviewed the January 2020 Fusion 360 GD workflow capabilities in collaboration with Autodesk and did a preliminary review of ten other Generative Design workflows capabilities based on publicly available information. The detailed assessment of the Fusion 360 GD workflow was combined with the preliminary reviews of the ten other Generative Design workflows to develop an overall “industry” Generative Design mean and maximum rankings for all 11 Key Capability Areas of Generative Design for General Applicability.
 
1. Handling all appropriate objectives and constraints
2. Handling multiple operational (load) conditions
3. Handling multi-physics
4. Handling multiple manufacturing processes
5. Handling cost as an objective or constraint
6. Handling Generative Design in an assembly/system context
7. Enabling informed, comprehensive and efficient exploration of viable design alternatives
8. Enabling efficient & effective transformation to detailed design analysis
9. Enabling efficient selection guidance of generated design concepts
10. Enabling Generative Design within the designer’s process, context & terminology
11. Enabling broad accessibility to Generative Design
 
The assessment of the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design workflow also illustrates how the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design workflow compares the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design workflow ranking to the “industry” rankings for each the 11 Key Capability Areas of Generative Design for General Applicability. This comparison to industry ranking enabled classification of the Autodesk Fusion 360 Generative Design workflow for each key capability area into one of four classifications.

1. Market Leader
2. Strongly Competitive
3. Competitive
4. Not Competitive

intrinSIM adds KOSMOS Framework to its Technology Portfolio

Cooperation leverages intrinSIM’s engineering software connections to broaden the use of the Kubotek KOSMOS Framework.

Kubotek3D is pleased to announce that intrinSIM has signed a definitive agreement to add the Kubotek Kosmos® 3D framework to its portfolio of Embeddable Technologies for Engineering.   intrinSIM will partner with Kubotek3D on business development and licensing of the Kubotek KOSMOS 3D Framework on a worldwide basis.

Kubotek Kosmos® 3D framework is an advanced set of C/C++ software components that support the development of specialized design applications, CAD/CAM, CMM, and CAE utility programs, and high-fidelity movement of data between engineering software programs.

• Leverage your domain expertise backed with precise engineering data
  • Supports 3D solid models with associative GD&T manufacturing information
  • Includes automatic geometric feature recognition
  • Includes manifold and non-manifold topology and multi-dimensional bodies
• Reliably read files from all major MCAD databases
  • Unique data architecture minimizes translation by preserving complex geometry definition structures native to each engineering database
  • Support available for standard STEP, IGES and VDA files, neutral ACIS SAT, Parasolid X_T, JT, and STL files, and proprietary files from Dassault CATIA and SolidWorks, Siemens NX and Solid Edge, PTC Creo and Pro/E, and Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD
  • Innovative variable precision system provides a solution for data coming from different CAD databases which use different modeling precision in models ranging from microns to millions of miles in size
• Maximize your application performance
  • Written from the ground up with multi-threading in mind
  • Advanced math algorithms optimize mathematical operations
  • Small file size combined with smaller memory footprint, enable larger datasets
  • Optimal condensed format for database save and restore
• Easily expand to new platforms and markets
  • Libraries are supported and tested on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
  • Complete Unicode support
  • Compatibility with .NET (Visual Basic, C#, etc.) and ELK Scheme
  • Full Lua scripting support to extend your applications

Datakit announces version 2020.1 of its CAD file converters

Writer libraries in FBX and glTF formats are now available, as well as conversion support for new versions of Solid Edge, ACIS, NX, SOLIDWORKS, and PARASOLID files.

The previous version of the Datakit software had added the possibility of converting files to FBX and glTF with CrossManager. These formats have now also been added to CrossCad/Ware. Software developers can now offer to export FBX or glTF files from their software by integrating the Datakit API.

Support for new versions of CAD formats

Datakit version 2020.1 also enhances the existing interfaces by adding support for new versions of CAD formats. All Datakit software benefits from these improvements:

NX Reading
Siemens has released several new versions of NX over the past three months since Datakit's V2019.4 release. V2020.1 supports all these new versions up to NX 1892.

Solid Edge 2D Reading
In the previous version, Datakit had updated its Solid Edge 3D file reading to support version 2020. This improvement now also applies to native Solid Edge 2D files (.dft).

ACIS Reading
Version 2019 1.0 of ACIS format is now supported. Datakit tools can read and convert all versions of .sat, .asat, .sab files up until version 2019 1.0.

SOLIDWORKS Reading
 Therefore, all SOLIDWORKS files from 2009 to 2020 can be converted. Datakit's SOLIDWORKS plug-ins are also compatible with this latest version.

Parasolid Writing
Datakit now offers the possibility to choose the version of Parasolid exported from V10 to V32.

Improvements for the whole software set