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News Release from: Geomate | Subject: Tolerancecalc 5.0 wizard
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2007
Wizard tests products at CAD stage
ToleranceCalc 5.0 allows users to perform "what if" analysis of available manufacturing capabilities to determine the right balance between cost and performance of products.
Geomate company has released the Tolerancecalc 5.0 wizard, enabling users of any popular CAD application to obtain instantaneous answers to two critical questions at any stage of the product development process Will the product perform as expected when dimensional tolerances stack-up?
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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ToleranceCalc 5.0 allows users to perform reverse tolerance analysis.
Given a specific tolerance range, ToleranceCalc 5.0 returns the sigma quality value.
Conversely given a desired sigma quality value, ToleranceCalc 5.0 will return the tolerance range that should be allocated to meet the desired quality goal.
This facility in ToleranceCalc 5.0 allows users to perform "what if" analysis of available manufacturing capabilities to determine the right balance between cost and performance of products.
ToleranceCalc 5.0 works directly with geometry defined in CAD without the need for "mathematically re-describing" the problem.
It eliminates tedious and error-prone manual entries of dimensional information required by spreadsheet based solutions.
ToleranceCalc 5.0 concurrently performs worst-case stack-up as well as detailed Monte Carlo statistical analysis of any imaginable open or closed loop linear and angular dimension chain defined in any popular CAD application.
Answers are available in seconds.
ToleranceCalc is Vista and XP-compatible.
"Engineering companies are faced with an ever-increasing demand for more complex products, quicker delivery and greater levels of functionality of each product they design", said Shyamal Roy, founder of Geomate.
"These pressures raise the stakes of getting design and manufacturing right the first time".
"With Tolerancecalc 5.0, costly 'build-test-fix' procedures can be dramatically minimised leading to faster time to market with higher-quality designs".
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