Icona Solutions to Demonstrate aesthetica V3.1 at IAA 2009. 

By DE Editors

At this year’s IAA, (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung), in Frankfurt am Main, Icona Solutions Ltd., in partnership with its German business partner, HIC Engineering, will demonstrate the latest version of its perceived quality simulation and visualization software,  aesthetica V3.1. 

aesthetica is used by automotive industry OEMs to help them improve the perceived quality of their vehicles while reducing development timescales and costs. It applies information on manufacturing variations and assembly deformation directly to the 3D CAD model of a vehicle to enable real time “what you see is what you get” perceived quality studies, using realistic imagery, from the early stages of the vehicle development process right through to production. 

Demonstrations of aesthetica at IAA illustrate many of the new features and functions introduced with V3.1, including: the ability to visualize how a new concept design will look when assembled using an existing vehicle platform; the ability to visualize the impact of real-world manufacturing variation on a vehicle, including offset means and skewed or non-symmetric distributions; and the ability to apply actual shop-floor inspection data and visualize real form variation directly on digital parts or assemblies.  

In addition to these new data import facilities,  demonstrations also show the new direct interface from aesthetica to Autodesk Showcase and enhancements to the existing direct interface to the Bunkspeed HyperShot 3D visualization software.

For more information, visit Icona Solutions.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.