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CAD chosen after extended evaluation in
Malmo
Malmo University has invested in 200 licences of IronCAD.
Malmo University has invested in 200 licences of IronCAD After an extended evaluation of the industries leading CAD systems, the university chose IronCAD because of its capability and user friendly features for use in design education
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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IronCAD will be used mainly in the University's Material and Virtual Design (MVD) Department.
Stefan Olofsson, PhD student at Malmo University, detailed the selection process by saying: "At our university, we evaluated 3D CAD systems in three aspects, ease-of-use and user friendliness, compatibility with the other software we are using at the school and support for iterative work within the CAD system itself".
"Beyond that, the CAD system must be suitable for the educational environment as well as usable in more realistic situations like the research projects that the school is currently involved in".
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"IronCAD fulfilled every aspect".
He went on to explain in greater detail: "When we evaluated IronCAD, we soon felt that that this software was very easy to use".
"It was relatively easy to reach the high level of complexity of the models that we wanted to create".
"Because the university already uses a number of freeform modellers like SoftImage, Rhino and 3D Studio Max, we needed to have compatibility in both directions to our CAD system".
"With IronCAD it worked out easily in both directions".
"In our projects at the university, we do 3D models early in the design process".
"Then we go on and create physical models to be used for testing of real life products".
"We create an FEA model from the 3D file, or a milled model is created".
"In some cases we create integrated prototypes, which means that we fill them with electronics and other components, to make the prototype work".
"This is done to evaluate functionality of the prototype".
"Accomplishing this requires easy to use software where the models rules/constraints don't hinder us from re-using already created models".
"This, we found, is a process that the parametric, rule based CAD systems don't support very well.
IronCAD supports this process easily; allowing us in a very short time to move from prototype to a functional real world model".
Robert Andersson of Solidmakarna, IronCAD's local channel partner, says: "We are very happy that we have received the trust from Malmo University to deliver IronCAD".
"The university is at the forefront of today's leading technologies, so the selection of IronCAD proves once again that the new, creative design methodology of IronCAD outperforms the older parametric, rule based CAD systems".
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