Products: August 2005

By DE Editors

CFdesign Helps OEMs Standardize Upfront CFD

The CFdesign Implementation Services (CIS) Group is aimed at helping clients produce a rapid and sustainable ROI by fully leveraging CFdesign upfront in the product design process.

According to Blue Ridge Numerics (Charlottesville, VA), the CIS Group will provide customers with services supplied by experienced engineers with proven track records in MCAD/CAE usage, product development, design validation, and CFD.

Services immediately available include on-site customized training of engineering teams while better equipping them to prepare and use customer geometry, and to use simulation techniques that are specific to customer applications. The group will also provide training in advanced flow and thermal functionality that can be used on-demand by mechanical engineers, and best-practice development to ensure all members of the team have equally developed skills and access to a standardized knowledge base.

The CIS Group will serve as a project resource to generate simulation results for each candidate design variation, as a consulting service for product development, and as a short-term engineering placement service when a customer loses a valuable team member or when the volume of project work might exceed team capabilities.
 

CFdesign Implementation Services Group from Blue Ridge Numerics received the most votes in our April 2005 issue. Vote for your favorite product from this issue at the end of the Products section.   IronCAD Ships Version 8

IronCAD (Atlanta, GA) is now shipping IronCAD V8. This release is being positioned as a 3D design alternative to parametric and constraint history-based systems. Designers of the program feel that the combination of its advanced architecture and additional features will help designers quickly capture innovative design concepts in 3D.

IronCAD V8 has more than 200 customer-requested enhancements and quality improvements. Some of the key features being introduced are a draft feature command supporting neutral plane, parting line, and stepped parting line draft options for improved plastics design; face to face and full round blend options; a split 3D curve option that uses other curves and geometry for better surface manipulation; a patch surface option that creates a surface from multiple curves; a surface fillet option with guide curves to improve organic surface creation; enhanced conical sheet-metal features with full unfold; and several 2D drawing enhancements.

General enhancements include improved 3D display for better large assembly handling; upgrades to both ACIS and Parasolid kernels; DXF/DWG importer/exporter improvements to simplify working with legacy files; a new CATIA V5 translator; and more.

Included with each shipment of IronCAD and Inovate 8.0, the company’s 3D design collaboration tool, is a CD with fully integrated solutions from FEA, CAM, PDM/EDM, custom tools, viewers, and surfacing vendors. Each integrated solution can be immediately leveraged by IronCAD users to maximize design productivity. For more details, visit ironcad.com.

  “Fault Library” Offered with ATEasy 5.0

Geotest-Marvin Test Systems Inc. (Irvine, CA) has announced that the latest version of its ATEasy software offers a new “Fault Library” plug-in module that provides a troubleshooting tool for electronic circuits. It also includes a Fault Editor, which allows program developers to define fault conditions to be analyzed by ATEasy during runtime, in which the operator can be prompted to replace assemblies or components based on actual failures.

To receive more information on Geotest software and hardware products, visit geotestinc.com.

  New PGI Compilers Improve Performance of Range of Platforms

The Portland Group (Wilsonville, OR) has said the latest versions of its production-quality compilers and software development tools show improvements of 8% to 15% on standard benchmarks and better efficiency on 64-bit applications. PGI Workstation 6.0, PGI Server 6.0, and PGI CDK 6.0 are Fortran, C, and C++ compilers for 32-bit x86, 64-bit AMD64, and 64-bit Intel EM64T processor-based Linux and Windows computer systems.

The Portland Group says Release 6.0 offers all the benefits of the previous version with enhanced performance, plus support for the latest Linux releases including SuSE 9.2, SLES 9, Fedora Core 3, and RHEL 4.0, and provisional support for 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

PGI compilers and tools support a broad range of popular HPC (high-performance computing) platforms and can generate fully optimized code for 32-bit x86, 64-bit AMD Opteron and Athlon 64, and 64-bit Intel EM64T processors. Additionally, PGI’s tools and compilers run on more than 30 popular Linux and Windows releases.

For details, visit pgroup.com.

  FLEX Released for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX Environments

FlexPDE 5 from PDE Solutions (Antioch, CA) is an extensive rewrite of the FlexPDE application and includes Arbitrary Lagrange/Eulerian (ALE) moving meshes and optional one-dimensional geometry among other improvements.

Version 5 allows you to type in your partial differential equations, add a description of the problem domain, and instantly convert this problem specification into a sophisticated finite element model.  The program includes automatic mesh construction, unlimited equation complexity, an unlimited number of simultaneous equations, a nonlinear equation solver, dynamic timestep control, export to TecPlot or VisIt for visualizations and more.

FlexPDE is a self-contained processing system that analyzes your problem description; symbolically forms Galerkin finite element integrals, derivatives, and dependencies; builds a coupling matrix and solves it; and plots the results.

It requires no additional software, nor do you have to buy modules to address new fields of study. Rather than pass a translation on to some other package for processing, FlexPDE is frequently the package other applications call for processing.

For more information, visit pdesolutions.com

More Marvin Test Solutions Coverage