Design

Altair Engineering Inc announced today that the company will exhibit at this year’s Vehicle Dynamics Expo from June 16th – 18th in Stuttgart, Germany. Altair will present insights into the latest version of its product family – HyperWorks 10.0 – which will be released in May 2009. In addition to an enhanced browser handling, the company will also present the co-simulation capabilities of the software suite i.e. with DSHplus, a software solution of the Altair Partner Fluidon GmbH for controls and hydraulics simulation, the HyperWorks Partner Solution Program, and all other features relevant to the automotive industry. HyperWorks’ customers and members of the HyperWorks Enabled Community have access to all Altair and third party solutions included within the program and available via the flexible HyperWorks licensing system. With this licensing model, user will be able to handle all automotive relevant development tasks within the same framework.

Altair announced today the addition of AcuSolve and AcuConsole from ACUSIM Software to its HyperWorks Enabled Community, bringing the total applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 51, including 23 third-party software applications. HyperWorks customers can now download the latest versions of AcuSolve and AcuConsole, along with all other available applications, at zero incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license system at www.hyperworkscommunity.com.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc today announces the European launch of the Thermo Scientific OMNIC Specta software for Raman applications. The powerful new software solution is being launched in Europe and will be displayed on booth B1-C11, Hall 6.1 at ACHEMA 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany, from May 11 - 15.

DALSA Corporation recently announced it has advanced the color capability of its Sapera Essential software for machine vision applications. Sapera Essential (Edition 01/2009) is a cost-effective machine vision software toolkit that bundles board-level acquisition and control with advanced image processing capability. It is intended to deliver the critical functionality needed to design, develop and deploy high-performance machine vision applications, while at the same time significantly lowering deployment costs. This version of Sapera Essential provides support for Windows 64-bit and the .Net interface.

Laser Design Inc. announced that its next-generation line of 3D laser scanning probes has a new member, the SLP-500. The company’s new and improved Surveyor Laser Probes (SLP) are faster and more accurate than their predecessors.

At CWIEME, Cobham Technical Services is releasing a new version of its Vector Fields Software tool for designing rotating electrical machinery. The electromagnetic simulation software combines the accuracy of virtual prototyping using finite-element analysis with a rapid front-end design tool that allows users to create models of motors and generators in minutes — allowing users to achieve radical new levels of development productivity.

Catalog Data Solutions today announced that ControlAir Inc has selected its CDS Catalog product for parametric product search and its CDS ModelServer product for CAD Downloads. The CDS Catalog will front-end the CDS CAD ModelServer CAD download solution and both will be integrated into the ControlAir website

Catalog Data Solutions today announced that ControlAir Inc has selected its CDS Catalog product for parametric product search and its CDS ModelServer product for CAD Downloads. The CDS Catalog will front-end the CDS CAD ModelServer CAD download solution and both will be integrated into the ControlAir website

Helping London Transport improve its customer services and security announcements, Interalia, a leader in the design and manufacture of digital voice announcement solutions, has partnered IPS Ltd in the installation of its COMMANDER Platform and Station Digital Announcement System at Borough and Kennington Underground stations. The sophisticated system delivers a variety of platform messages to London Underground passengers ranging from emergency messages to customer information.

Graco engineers used FloEFD computational fluid dynamics software from the Mechanical Analysis group of Mentor Graphics Corporation to optimize the design of a new plural component spray gun in 1/3 the time that would have been required to produce an acceptable but not optimized design using the trial and error method. “The use of software prototypes made it possible to explore a much wider design space than would have been possible with physical prototypes, said Rick Anderson, Senior Project Engineer at Graco. “It’s important to note that I achieved these results despite the fact that I am a design engineer without any training in CFD.”