Design Analysis That Works With Autodesk Inventor: COSMOS/DesignSTAR To Integrate With Autodesk Inventor.Business &Technology Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Structural Research &Analysis Corp. (SRAC SRAC Southern Regional Aquaculture Center SRAC Short-Run Average Cost SRAC System Realignment and Categorization SRAC Scenic Roads Advisory Committee SRAC Structural Research and Analysis Corporation ) announced the latest release of COSMOS/DesignSTAR, integrated with Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor is the 3D parametric solid modeling package produced by U.S.-based software company Autodesk. It competes with other CAD systems such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. (TM) software. This release is in addition to the COSMOS/DesignSTAR program presently integrated with Autodesk's Mechanical Desktop(R) software. Such tight product integration will allow design engineers to benefit from COSMOS/DesignSTAR's powerful, easy-to-use design analysis combined with Autodesk Inventor's strengths in large-model performance, single-day productivity and Adaptive Design. SRAC expects that COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Autodesk Inventor will be released early into the first quarter 2000. The integration of Autodesk Inventor and COSMOS/DesignSTAR enables designers and engineers to take advantage of COSMOS/DesignSTAR's advanced features at all stages of the design cycle. COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor has associativity, providing designers and engineers with detailed model analysis during the design process. Powered by one of the fastest solvers in the industry, COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor enables designers to verify Autodesk Inventor models and perform multiple &uot;what if?&uot; scenarios quickly and accurately. &uot;COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor gives users the most powerful and flexible design analysis capabilities available,&uot; said Dr. V. I. Weingarten, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SRAC. &uot;Our goal is to make high-end analysis functionality available to the non-specialist in an intuitive, easy-to-use program. With COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor, users will have the same CAD and design analysis they already know how to use, with new capabilities that are available in a familiar interface, and obtainable at a much more reasonable cost.&uot; &uot;We are excited that SRAC has quickly moved forward with their development of COSMOS/DesignSTAR software for Inventor. The tight integration of the two products will surely benefit Autodesk Inventor users who seek the combined power of Autodesk's Adaptive Technology Adaptive technology is the name for products which help people who cannot use regular versions of products, primarily people with physical disabilities such as limitations to vision, hearing, and mobility. , single-day productivity and improved performance associated with their design analysis software,&uot; said Andrew Anagnost, director of MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design Industry Marketing, Autodesk. About Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor software, the company's new 3-D, feature-based, solid-modeling and drawing-production system, is built from the ground up with an entirely new architecture and innovative new adaptive technology. Autodesk's Adaptive Technology allows users to design the way they think and collaborate more effectively with teams, supporting concurrent engineering and the reuse of complex design and manufacturing knowledge. Autodesk Inventor also provides industry-leading, large-assembly performance and enables single-day productivity. The software's user interface, storage engine, design-capture technology, collaboration tools and interactive assistance underscore the genuine innovation behind Autodesk Inventor. About COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor COSMOS/DesignSTAR for Inventor offers Autodesk Inventor users expert design analysis capabilities, including: -- Basic analysis bundle containing stress, displacement, frequency, buckling, steady state and transient thermal analyses, and optional assembly analysis -- Advanced analysis bundles including nonlinear stress, dynamic response, low-frequency electromagnetics and fatigue capabilities -- APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that allow integration of complementary programs and user customization -- Results visualization with advanced Open GL graphics -- Automatically prepared Web-enabled design reports in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , with embedded VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. and AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. visualization tools -- Loads and boundary conditions applied to the geometry, not to nodes or elements, allowing automatic bi-directional CAD model update -- Design Check Wizard to compare results against factor of safety criteria -- COSMOS/FFE(R) solvers that eliminate the need to defeature designs in 90% of analyses, as well as new, fast direct solvers About SRAC Structural Research &Analysis Corporation develops and markets design analysis software products for the mechanical computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer market. Since its inception in 1982, SRAC has contributed innovations that have had a significant impact on the evolution of FEA (Finite Element Analysis) A mathematical technique for analyzing stress, which breaks down a physical structure into substructures called "finite elements." The finite elements and their interrelationships are converted into equation form and solved mathematically. . SRAC markets the COSMOS/ product line worldwide through a network of more than 300 resellers selling in 43 countries. For more information and a product demonstration, contact a local COSMOS/ distributor or reseller today, or call SRAC directly at 800/469-7287 (outside of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , call 310/207-2800). For the latest news and information from SRAC, see the company's Web site (www.cosmosm.com). Note to Editors: COSMOS/M and FFE FFE Fédération Française d'Equitation (French governing body for equestrian sport) FFE Fédération Française des Échecs FFE Food for Education FFE Flat File Extractor FFE Frontier: First Encounters are registered trademarks and COSMOS/DesignSTAR is a trademark of Structural Research &Analysis Corp. Autodesk is a registered trademark, and Autodesk Inventor is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or certain other countries. All other product names are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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