SpaceClaim Announces SpaceClaim Professional 2007+

By DE Editors

In addition to today’s announcement of the newest release of its flagship product SpaceClaim Professional 2007+, which is to be released on November 15, 2007, SpaceClaim (Concord, MA) entered into Integrated Partner Solutions with Adobe, Ansys, and Rhinoceros, thereby furthering collaboration throughout multi-CAD environments.

SpaceClaim Professional 2007+, which adds enhancements to software that already delivered advanced file open and modification capabilities for concept design, engineering analysis and manufacturing to directly contribute expertise to 3D product design, now includes the ability to open, modify, and create sheet metal parts, work with lightweight assemblies, drive 3D modifications via 2D sections, add and modify driving dimensions, and support integration with CAD-neutral partner applications.

SpaceClaim Professional 2007+ advances SpaceClaim’s intuitive 3D modeling capabilities and builds on core technology to address the pain of CAD interoperability and make 3D more accessible to a broader group of product development professionals. The release includes enhancements requested by the company’s client community.

The new capabilities in SpaceClaim Professional 2007+ let the extended development team import and work freely with the designer’s model, without having to understand the method used to construct it. Engineers across multiple disciplines are able to immediately add their expertise to the design, rather than spend time deciphering the model or struggle with the software, increasing productivity and hastening time to market, as stated in the release.

The capabilities in Sheet Metal Module include automated bend relief, unfold and ability to work simultaneously in 3D and flat pattern, enabling properties of wall thickness, bend radius, and K-factor to be assigned. Imported thin-walled models are recognized as sheet metal parts and behave as native SpaceClaim models. 3D Section Modification provides an intuitive way to modify a model for those more comfortable working in 2D. 3D functions such as pull, move, round, shell, mirror and combine can be used while working in the 2D plane. Lightweight Assemblies, ECAD Integration, and Advanced Geometry all offer a variety of useful functions.

The 2007+ release includes support for Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8 file format, supports integration with ANSYS Gambit and ANSYS Workbench products, and supports open, modify, and save in the Rhinoceros file format (.3dm).

The software is available in English, Japanese, German, French, Korean, Italian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese languages.

For further details on SpaceClaim Professional 2007+, go to SpaceClaim.

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