‘Virtual Prototyping’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release IDC offers in-house injection moulding service from Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC), which we summarised at the time by saying "IDC Models is offering an in-house injection moulding service designed to make low- to medium-volume product manufacture cost and time efficient. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Virtalis installs immersive visualisation suite from Virtalis: "Virtalis has designed and installed an immersive visualisation suite at Case New Holland (CNH) in Modena, Italy. ".

In November 2009, we covered the news from ESI Group - take a look at Pam-Comfort helps Renault design new seat which says: "Renault has used ESI's Pam-Comfort system for the preliminary design of a new seat.".

Take a look also at the news release from Galil Motion Control, Galil controller aids border patrol surveillance, as well as Objet to exhibit rapid prototyping solution at TCT from Objet Geometries Europe, and University of Manchester buys 20 NI Elvis units from National Instruments.

Latest stories...

Sycode announces Keycreator extensions (October 2009)

Sycode has released 12 data exchange add-ins for Keycreator, Kubotek's flagship 3D direct modelling product.

Ansys software verifies Wimbledon roof design (October 2009)

Ansys has announced that its software was used to verify parts of the design of the retractable roof over Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, London.

SolidWorks enables squeezable bottle design (October 2009)

Innova Systems has announced that its SolidWorks design and engineering package was used in the development of squeezable bottles used for Marmite and Colman's Mustard.

ESI conference focuses on simulation-based design (October 2009)

ESI Group has announced its first global users' conference and exhibition on Simulation-Based Design and Virtual Prototyping - ESI Global Forum 2010.

LMS to hold vehicle energy management master class (October 2009)

LMS has announced that it will hold a vehicle energy management master class on 10-12 November at its US headquarters in Troy, Michigan.

Autodesk Inventor delivers digital prototyping (October 2009)

Autodesk has announced that Wild West Motor Company has selected the company's Autodesk Inventor software for digital prototyping.

Optical capture camera tracks and analyses motion (October 2009)

Vicon, a developer of motion capture products, has launched Bonita: a small optical capture camera for tracking and analysing motion.

NI network enables standalone instrument control (October 2009)

National Instruments (NI) has announced more than 8,000 instrument drivers available through the NI Instrument Driver Network (IDNet) that enable connection and control of standalone instruments.

Clusters to accelerate virtual prototyping package

ESI Group and IT group Bull have announced a partnership agreement to validate the leading crash-simulation application, PAM-Crash, on Bull NovaScale servers and Bull NovaScale clusters.
Simulation tools simplify virtual prototyping

A novel suite of embedded simulation tools allows Catia V5 users to streamline and automate the task of building and testing virtual prototypes.