CFdesign's New Autodesk Revit Integration

Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc., the leader in upfront CFD software, today announced the full integration of CFdesign 2010 with Autodesk Revit.  This revolutionary development allows architecture and MEP engineers for the first time to run computational fluid dynamic (CFD) studies seamlessly from the Revit environment. Previously, traditional CFD software presented too many technical and time consuming barriers to be used by engineers at AEC firms.

CFdesign provides a straightforward flexible workflow with full associativity to the Revit model. This integration means Revit users won’t have to export/import their models. Now real world validation can be conducted on models at their desktop to understand how design changes can help achieve environmental objectives and energy certifications.

“The CFdesign and Autodesk Revit integration opens new doors for AEC firms. Never before have architecture and MEP engineers been so empowered to look at multi-scenario comprehensive fluid flow and heat transfer studies that seamlessly integrate with the Revit environment,” explains Derrek Cooper, product manager, Blue Ridge Numerics. “CFdesign 2010 enables engineers to quickly create and compare different models and make important design decisions early in the development process.  AEC firms now have the ability to offer their customers more effective design options with greater efficiency and with less risk.”

With CFdesign architecture and MEP engineers can both validate and explore their Revit models for thermal comfort, energy audits, solar loading, smoke egress/ LMA, occupancy safety, and external wind loading. In addition, CFdesign allows you to perform simulations for data center cooling and clean room design.

Visit http://www.cfdesign.com/ for more information.

 

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VISTAGY Releases Seat Design Environment 2009

VISTAGY, Inc., a leading provider of industry-specific engineering software and services, today announced the release of Seat Design Environment 2009 (SDE), which provides an accurate 3D master model of the trim cover from the earliest stages of design to manufacturing by enabling seat cover manufacturers to bring flat patterns that have been altered with 2D editing software back into the 3D CAD model. This master model definition can be used to automatically update engineering and manufacturing data to create a faster, more precise process for delivering seat covers to market, a key concern in the highly competitive automotive industry.

The traditional 2D-based seat trim cover design and manufacturing process requires a significant amount of translation and verbal communication to transfer data between numerous people and software packages. Creating documents, such as drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), cost assessments and sewing instructions, is a manual, error-prone task that requires frequent data re-entry. This traditional process is highly inefficient because there is no single master model containing all the most up-to-date information and, most importantly, there is no way to obtain timely design feedback.

Previous versions of SDE have always provided a way for data and documentation—such as flat patterns, costing information, sew reports and BOMs—to be automatically created from a 3D CAD master model. But SDE 2009 enhances the master model by providing an environment integrated into commercial CAD systems where geometric and non-geometric information can be captured within a single 3D CAD model throughout the entire design process; from initial generation of flat patterns to final detail design as required for manufacturing. Now design and manufacturing engineers and their suppliers can efficiently create and modify seat trim cover product definitions and generate associated engineering data automatically for use throughout a company and its supply chain.

SDE 2009 also provides enhanced capabilities for communicating design information, generating documentation, simulating producibility and defining seat covers:

• Improved communication and documentation – Engineering as well as manufacturing drawings can now be created with SDE 2009. This includes the ability to show and hide cutouts in drawings on sewing reports and engineering drawings as well as the ability to highlight colors on sewing reports to show seam types (French/Deck, etc.) in isometric and flat pattern views. This dramatically improves the communication of the designer’s intent to the manufacturing team, speeding overall development time and increasing accuracy.
• Enhanced producibility simulations – With improved display of producibility results, the simulation can be inspected and used to identify issues that need to be addressed to make better flat patterns more easily.
• Improved capabilities for defining seat covers – There are now more options for creating attachments (by center point and length, by start and end points, and by point and length) and for creating manufacturing sew lines (by curve, attachment or backing pad).

"There is tremendous pressure on seat cover manufacturers to get to market quickly and on budget," said Ed Bernardon, vice president of business development for VISTAGY. "The introduction of SDE 2009 means they can now create an invaluable master model for use throughout the entire trim design and manufacturing process by bringing flat patterns altered with 2D editing software back into the 3D CAD model so engineering and manufacturing documentation and data can be automatically updated. With SDE 2009, we continue to enhance our customers' competitiveness by improving data accuracy and streamlining the engineering process."

 

Visit http://www.vistagy.com/ for more information.

 

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ASCON to announce the awaited launch of its flagship MCAD Solution

ASCON Group, developer and vendor of professional CAD/AEC/PLM solutions, is pleased to present release of its new, improved and even more powerful and easy-learning version of professional 3D and 2D software solution for Mechanical CAD – KOMPAS-3D V11.

This new release suggests novelties to increase efficiency, quality and speed of designing process, to make fast and simple familiarization with the software, to provide special tools for vertical industries domains, such as steel construction, piping, sheet-metal design. KOMPAS-3D V11 users still get all these powerful abilities at a very reasonable price. We are pleased to share with you brief information about the innovative features and new add-ons in KOMPAS-3D V11.

3D Parametric Modelling and Design Improvements

New features for 3D modeling of parts and assemblies: Mechanical mates in assembly help to simulate movement, Local coordinate in 3D systems considerably increase possibility of part and assembly modelling, Scale for 3D models help change a scale of parts, Different types of assembly loading help increase speed of working with large assemblies more than 10 times. Bend by Sketch, Part to assembly and Assembly to part transformation and many others increase efficiency and speed of 3D modelling process.

Trial and Demo mode protection update

Since now all the interested are able to get 30-Days full-functioning Trial version of KOMPAS-3D absolutely for FREE.

A capability is introduced for working with the solution and its components in 30 days period for familiarization and trying in use all the wide range of features of KOMPAS solutions.

Download Professional KOMPAS-3D V11 at ascon.net/download.php.

Unwrap library

The add-on is included in the basic package of KOMPAS-3D V11. The library is intended to automate the design of dust, gas and air flues, pipelines and similar parts of sheet material. This add-on automates labour-consuming calculations and constructions and considerably increases the speed of creation of working drawing for blanks of such parts.

Standard Parts library

The database supplied with KOMPAS-3D V11 and contains fasteners according to DIN and ISO standards.

Steel structures 3D

The library is also included in the delivery package. It is intended for automation of design process of metal constructions from metal rolling profiles.

Interface improvements

Context bar – it contains buttons of the frequently used editing commands and is displayed on the screen at selecting objects of the document and considerably increase speed of working with KOMPAS-3D.

New Icon Design – contains different sizes of icons, which able to supply High resolution Displays supporting. Extended command toolbars gives more for interface customization.

New abilities for 3D curves and surfaces modeling

The new commands for creating of 3D-lines considerably improve design of complex 3D paths and trajectories.

The Deviation of Surfaces helps to measure the mutual deviation of two faces (or a face and a surface).

Import/Export improvements

Enhancements in import of various CAD formats (SAT, STEP, IGES, Parasolid, STL) etc. Today it is possible to import 3D-models from DXF and DWG in KOMPAS-3D.

New features for working with 2D documents

The Multiline command creates a multiline – geometrical object consisting of several lines that are equidistant to the reference line.

The Cut command is introduced in the Edit menu. It hides the portions of the raster image that are out of closed contour.

Using of Hyperlinks – a capability is introduced for creation of hyperlinks to current document objects, external files, web pages, e-mail addresses. The hyperlink is added to the object of the document as one of properties.

 

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