Borm-Informatik |
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Borm-Informatik develops and distributes CAD/PPS software for the wood manufacturing and design industries. Their product PointLine is an established product in the CAD market with approximately 4500 licenses in Europe. After many years on the market, they decided to update PointLine to maintain its competitive level using component technology.
They chose Spatial's 3D ACIS® Modeler and Tech Soft 3D's HOOPS 3D Viewing Engine. With ACIS, the could provide advanced modeling capabilities and unique functionality that would set new standards in the field. They also used ACIS' repository of useful functions and classes to make their product as user-friendly as possible. With HOOPS, they were able to implement a powerful and easy to integrate Graphic Engine that would give their users the ability to work in real time with shaded, textured and/or hidden line objects, instead of only wireframed models.
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CADSoft Solutions, Inc. |
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CADSoft Solutions, Inc. (CSi) is a leading software technology developer whose mission is to bring precise 2D and 3D design exploration tools into the reach of every day users.
When beginning the initial development of their Concepts Unlimited product, CSi wanted to decrease their overall development time without sacrificing quality and deliver a product to market quickly to begin realizing revenue.
CSi turned to Spatial, licensing the 3D ACIS Modeler, 3D Deformable Modeling, 3D PHL V5 and several of Spatial's 3D InterOp Translators. As a result, CSi estimates that their annual development cost savings were approximately $700,000 dollars and the final product is more advanced than would have been possible with a larger development team.
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CEDRAT Group |
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CEDRAT Group produces solutions for the electrical and mecatronic markets. Its FLUX FEA software is used in a variety of heavy industries; as a result, a high level of interoperability is required for optimal FLUX user experience. CEDRAT chose to integrate Spatial's InterOp Translators, which speed model handling, decreased CEDRAT's time to market, and enable more user flexibility.
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Digital Artforms |
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Digital ArtForms was founded in 1998 and specializes in 3D interaction, immersion, and realtime visual simulation. After investigating the top 3 commercially available libraries, Digital ArtForms chose to work with Spatial's 3D ACIS® Modeler. With Spatial's help they settled on a two-step integration process that entailed first incorporating ACIS into their project and then integrating the ACIS Deformable Modeler.
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Dukin |
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Dukin Co., Ltd. is a worldwide provider of full-range CMM and Neuro-Solution products offering reliable and advanced functionality to the aircraft, automotive and electronics industries.
Dukin was looking to develop 3D off-line CMM simulation software based on a solid modeling kernel; their goal was to develop complex measurement simulation systems, supporting all major commercial CAD formats, thereby sustaining their customers' various needs and environments.
Dukin decided to work with Spatial, a company who could provide ACIS, a solid modeling base for their product. Spatial's Asia team offered effi cient consulting services to get them up to speed with the latest technology. Working with Spatial, Dukin has found that their development time has been reduced by more than 30% and their development costs have decreased by 50%.
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InnovMetric Software Inc., a pioneer in point cloud inspection and polygonal manufacturing software solutions, wanted to offer the same CAD import capabilities in their products that are available from large software companies. Spatial's InterOp components allowed them to offer high-end CAD import capabilities and increased their penetration to large automotive and aerospace accounts.
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IronCAD, by IronCAD, LLC, has rapidly built a reputation for superlative design, modeling, and engineering functionality among its customers and critics in the CAD industry.
Component software gave IronCAD the 3D flexible interface and superior modeling functionality it needed to get its robust environment to market without the headaches and increased costs of internal development. Since the inception of IronCAD more than eight years ago, Spatial's ACIS® 3D Geometric Modeler (ACIS) has provided it with mature, proven modeling capability. As Dr. Tao-Yang Han, president of IronCAD, LLC, explains, "ACIS is a very proficient geometric modeling kernel. Its flexibility and its object-oriented architecture give us the advantage of building new, sophisticated operations."
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Lambda Research Corporation (Lambda) provides innovative optics software and services to government and industry customers worldwide. Its product, TracePro, was the first optics program to offer compatibility with mechanical CAD programs and to bring ACIS-based 3D geometric modeling capabilities to optical designers.
Lambda developed TracePro as next-generation stray light analysis software that enables efficient and accurate optical analysis. To accomplish these goals, TracePro had to be capable of the following functions: Handle complex geometry to define and trace millions of rays; Visualize, manipulate, and provide a database for 3D solid models; and import and export popular CAD and lens design program formats.
Lambda opted to use ACIS for TracePro's vast array of capabilities, positioning it as an emerging technology for stray light analysis. Reasons for choosing ACIS include the component's unique ability to enable high-precision modeling, data compatibility, databasing, visualization, and interactive analysis.
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German software manufacturer Megatech Software GmbH develops easy-to-use CAD/CAM software with optimized performance. Its application, MegaCAD, can be found in the design shops of a broad cross-section of industries, including architecture, manufacturing, cartography, shipbuilding, and civil engineering.
To meet the perceived expectations of its customers, Megatech wanted MegaCAD to perform functions that included rounding along 3D contours, rounding with variable radii, and combining surface and volume modeling in one section of geometry.
In the interests of quality, time, and resources, Megatech decided to change strategies and integrate an established 3D component-Spatial's 3D ACIS® Modeler-into its software, rather than to continue development of their own modeler.
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Rag Informatik |
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RAG Informatik GmbH is a subsidiary of the international RAG Aktiengesellschaft. RAG Informatik provides IT service to its parent company and specialized external clients, focusing on the implementation of made-to-measure systems for the efficient realization of a continuous workflow. An example of one of these systems, Digital Underground and Deposit, was built for Deutsche Steinkohle AG (DSK) as its central mine surveying application. Through this CAE system, DSK creates a logical 3D model consisting of the planned and existing drifts and the deposit, as well as derive maps from the logical data that meet the standards of the DIN (German Institute for Standardization). Rag Informatik used aspects of the 3D ACIS Modeler to generate the free-form NURBS surfaces from fields of irregular points, predominantly with its sweeping feature.
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Realitywave |
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RealityWave works within all types of industries including, Federal and Military, Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Manufacturing, Nuclear Power, Aerospace, Automotive, and Shipbuilding. With such a broad scope of industries, Realitywave needed data compatibility between their own VizStream software and other market leading CAD systems, such as CATIA. Spatial was able to fill this void by providing InterOp CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 data translators for their VizStream application. RealityWave was able to provide this functionality less than six months after the first evaluation of Spatial's translators.
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Sekisui |
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Sekisui's NAVISTRUCT application had to include a cutting plane, deliver high-speed visualization and provide 3D viewing in lightweight format in order to make a post processor more convenient. For their solution, SEKISUI selected Spatial and the HOOPS/3dAF product. Resold for Tech Soft 3D by Spatial, HOOPS/3dAF has become an industry accepted standard for providing 3D visualization to a variety of applications across market segments.
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Silma |
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SILMA Inc, a Metrologic Group SA company, is a leading supplier of software for computer simulated manufacturing technology. SILMA's products-CimStation Inspection and Virtual CMM-are used worldwide by leading manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace, defense, and consumer products industries for simulating and programming coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
SILMA chose to upgrade CimStation Inspection with Spatial's 3D ACIS Modeler. On top of its 3D functionality, ACIS provides CimStation Inspection with improved CAD operation robustness for all entity types, supports a rich set of CAD entities that allows more one-to-one mapping of imported geometry types, and helps to enable efficient importation of very large CAD models (for example, an entire body-in-white for an automobile or engine block).
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