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CCE has announced that it has added the ability to transform and rotate components in heterogeneous and homogenous assemblies as well as improved markup collaboration capabilities in EnSuite Version 2 – its multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software. “In this new version we have raised the bar another notch by providing new capabilities for downstream manipulation of homogeneous or heterogeneous assemblies while also simplifying the process of communicating markup and redlining information by attaching the markup to the CAD file,” said Vinay Wagle, V.P. Sales & Marketing for CCE.

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Common Vision Blox from Stemmer Imaging is an open architecture hardware independent toolkit that supports both PC and embedded smart camera technology. It is acclaimed internationally as having the widest support for cameras and grabbers. It supports classical programming via compilers as well as more modern programming using graphical user interface tools.

CCE has announced that it has added the ability to create heterogeneous multi-CAD assemblies to EnSuite Version 2 - its multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software. This new feature enables users to build an assembly by inserting components from different proprietary and neutral CAD formats such as Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA V4 or V5, SolidWorks, Unigraphics, IGES, STEP and Parasolid.

Geomagic has launched three new Geomagic Studio editions that target specific application needs in mechanical design and medical/scientific markets. Geomagic Studio is the world’s leading software for creating accurate 3D digital models from scan data of physical objects.

Schueco, one of the leading producers of photovoltaic panels, used Flomerics’ Flovent computational fluid dynamics software to redesign its products to improve their thermal performance so that 15% to 20% more panels can be used in a given space. Today’s photovoltaic panels present a major thermal design challenge since every degree Centigrade of temperature rise reduces the power produced by 0.5%. “The CFD results helped us understand exactly how the panels were being heated and guided us as we made major improvements to the design,” said Hamid Batoul, Technical Director of Solar Department, Schueco International, Paris, France. “As the first in our industry to perform CFD simulation, we believe that we are now able to provide our customers with substantially higher power output than an equivalent competitive design.”

Bunkspeed today announced the launch of its new animation tool, HyperMove, at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles.

CCE has announced a new upgrade to EnSuite Version 2 – its multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software. The latest version offers mark-ups and redlining, interference/clearance checking and provides parent and child information for each component in an assembly. “This new upgrade to EnSuite substantially improves the ability of non-CAD users to analyze a design and quickly obtain the information they need to better perform their jobs,” says Vinay Wagle, V.P. Sales & Marketing of CCE. “For example, a manufacturing engineer can quickly identify all of the parts in an assembly that fall within a specified clearance in order to verify that a certain manufacturing process can hold the needed tolerances.”

Simclar Group used Flomerics’ Flotherm thermal simulation software to develop a new platform that goes well beyond the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) 3.0 specification. “Simulation gave me the freedom to consider a wide range of alternative designs by letting me evaluate their performance quickly and at very little cost,” said Dave Watson, Thermal Design Team Leader for Simclar Group. “We succeeded in developing a platform that goes well beyond the ATCA 3.0 specification by delivering 40 Gbps backplane bandwidth and 50 CFM airflow per slot with near-perfect airflow distribution.”

Modeling hazardous scenarios has become an essential part of engineering design for Offshore activities. Physical testing can be prohibitively expensive and in some cases impossible so modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques are commonly used for the modeling of exhaust plume dispersion, natural and forced ventilation efficiency, flaring, toxic gas releases, fires, explosions and hazardous spills.