Collaborative development now application-specific

CoCreate today introduced four Engineering Solution process packs, which offer application-focused solutions to accelerate collaborative product development

CoCreate today introduced four Engineering Solution process packs that leapfrog history-based modeling and set a new industry standard in flexibility.

The packs, which offer application-focused solutions to accelerate collaborative product development, include CoCreate's innovative DMOX-Technology (Dynamic Modeling Open Extensions).

The packs are as follows: * Industrial Design Pack - allows designers to create and visualize ideas rapidly and share design concepts early.

* Structural Integrity Pack -- reduces the number of physical prototypes and increases overall part quality.

* Sheet Metal Design and Manufacturing Pack - automates the sheet metal design and manufacturing process and increases the collaborative working between designers and manufacturing.

* Mould Design Pack - optimizes plastic design quality, reduces manufacturing costs for plastic moulding, and increases collaboration between designers and mould designers.

Industrial Design Pack - This collaborative product-development solution allows engineers to easily incorporate new ideas and feedback into their designs without the limitations of model histories.

It enables design teams to engage the best people within their respective companies, and partner and supplier chains.

It helps companies manage the dependencies among the various disciplines involved in product development.

This combination speeds up the development process right from the beginning and ensures high product quality.

The Industrial Design Pack gives designers the tools they need to create highly sculptured surfaces with ergonomic and complex shapes.

Supporting a combination of surface, solid and hybrid techniques, designers can easily create both accurate analytic and highly sculptured surfaces.

Designers can mix wire parts, face parts, trimmed surfaces and solids in one single assembly to best reflect their industrial design needs.

The included Advanced Rendering module enables designers to easily and rapidly produce and share photo-realistic images with suppliers, partners and customers, who also need to visualize a new concept.

Structural Integrity Pack -- Powerful yet easy-to-use analysis capabilities save time for designers by allowing them to investigate and validate several design alternatives early in the design process.

The pack does not require that designers have a high level of CAE expertise.

Integrated CAD data management helps companies manage the dependencies among the various disciplines involved.

In addition, it reduces the need for physical prototypes and ensures the mechanical requirements of the final product.

The Structural Integrity Pack provides a complete solution to design 3D models, including linear static analysis.

The entire process is performed in the familiar SolidDesigner environment, one in which design engineers can intuitively learn to use all capabilities.

Assigned material, LBC and results data can be stored with each part, allowing a variety of investigations to be run.

The Structural Integrity Pack provides the analysis cases most needed by designers, namely linear static, buckling and normal modes.

Sheet Metal Design and Manufacturing Pack -- This solution pack provides clear productivity and quality gains for design and manufacturing environments in companies developing sheet metal parts.

Specialized sheet metal design capabilities and Advisor Technology make this possible.

The Advisor Technology includes built-in Design for Manufacturability knowledge to avoid fundamental design flaws.

Designers can quickly and accurately design sheet metal parts that are ready for manufacture, receiving online guidance during the initial design stage.

In addition, technology databases of materials and tools ensure that the parts designed can be made by the shop's machinery.

An integrated CAD data management helps companies manage the dependencies among the various disciplines involved in product development.

This helps increase ready-to-manufacture products and eliminate design-correction cycles.

The Sheet Metal Design Pack provides an extended, powerful and intuitive command set tuned for sheet metal design, including Offset, Stamp, Hem, Bend, Lip, Fold and Unfold, and many more.

In addition to improving manufacturability through appropriate tool selection, Advisor Technology helps avoid fundamental design flaws by constantly and automatically checking each design step and providing the designer with immediate feedback.

Mould Design Pack - When designing plastic components, mould-specific knowledge is needed to provide high-quality parts.

The Mould Design Pack brings plastic knowledge and advice into the design process to optimize the design of plastic parts for injection moulding.

This drastically reduces development time and increases the quality of plastic component designs by providing process-specific knowledge of mould making with predefined plastic features, and specialized tools for core and cavity creation.

Designers can quickly and accurately design plastic parts ready for injection moulding, receiving online guidance during the initial design stage and warnings about injection-mould rule violations in the design.

Advanced Surfacing supports the design and analysis of highly sculptured surfaces for creating complex and ergonomic shapes.

This solution combines tightly integrated design tools with scaleable data- and process-management tools.

This pack improves manufacturability of plastic parts, and optimizes and reduces the cost of injection mould tools.

The Mould Design pack allows designers to optimize the creation of plastic components for mouldability with the following capability set: * Complete set for plastic design, including core and cavity creation.

* Solids-modeling, including design of sculptured surfaces, modification, annotation, photo realistic imaging and data exchange.

* Surface creation and analysis tools for high-quality designs.

* Pre-defined plastic form features, which include specific rules reflecting plastic knowledge and provide pro-active advice.

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