
Exa Corporation is an engineering software company that offers a suite of CAE and CFD simulation tools in addition to consulting services. The U.S.-based company’s products and services enable engineers to create competitive designs while shortening product design cycles.
With the Exa suite of engineering simulation products, engineers achieve results within time frames that are unreachable using traditional methodologies; customers benefit from drastic reduction in prototype expenses, while bringing their products to market faster. The company’s core product is PowerFLOW®, a computational fluid dynamics solver that provides the ability to simulate fluid flow in and around objects.
In 2009 Exa launched PowerDELTA™, a geometry preparation tool poised to change the product development paradigm by streamlining and automating the entire model preparation simulation process. With PowerDELTA, geometry application engineers and other users quickly and efficiently prepare models for simulations so product optimization can be made early in the design process.
Exa utilizes the ACIS kernel and 3D InterOp translator components due to their breadth of capability in handling all native CAD formats, particularly CATIA v4 and v5 and Pro/E, essential to the auto and transportation industries. It’s one thing to read in CAD surfaces and then maintain them as CAD surfaces, but with the ACIS kernel Exa customers use CAD model functionality to enhance the meshing process.
PowerDELTA represents a milestone for the company because it consolidates functionality of several modules, eliminating the need for customers to rely on multiple tools for case preparation.
“We have a lot of experience in CAD mathematics, functionality and software, but we need to focus our resources on our core business of solving engineering problems associated with computational fluid dynamics analysis,” comments Paul Stewart, Director of Product Management at Exa. “At the same time we need serious competent help on the CAD development side. Partnering with Spatial allows us to outsource a very important and major component – we view them as an extension of our development team.”
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