Spatial Selects Winners of First Annual 3D InterOp Model Contest.Top Designers Receive Cash Prizes Totaling $8500 WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Spatial Corp Spatial Corporation was founded in 1986, and had one main product: ACIS, the first commercially available 3D modeling kernel. Through subsequent years, Spatial added products to its portfolio that enabled ISVs mostly in the CAD/CAM industries, to build applications. ., a market-leading provider of 3D components, today announced the winners of its first annual 3D InterOp Model Contest, who received a total of $8500 in cash prizes as well as commemorative plaques. To win, the models had to demonstrate innovative use of CAD design, assembly and feature modeling, dimensioning, and tolerancing. Entries could be submitted in CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company. ([R]) V4, CATIA V5, Autodesk Inventor([R]), SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer([R]), and Unigraphics formats, as well as the standards STEP and IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) An ANSI file format that is system independent and also intended for human interpretation. Evolving out of the U.S. . Screen shots of the winning models can be viewed at www.spatial.com/model_contest. Tim Renton's entry of a Toyota GT-One race car was chosen for first prize ($5000) due to its complexity of surface types and his exceptional use of advanced modeling techniques. Tim crafted the design in SolidWorks by measuring points along a 1:24 scale model using a vernier vernier (vûr`nēr), auxiliary scale, either straight or an arc of a circle, designed to slide along a fixed scale. Its unit divisions, usually smaller than those on the fixed scale, permit a far more precise reading. caliper caliper Instrument that consists of two adjustable legs or jaws for measuring the dimensions of material parts. Spring calipers have an adjusting screw and nut; firm-joint calipers use friction at the joint to hold the legs unmoving. attached to a jig. "The project was time consuming, taking me 6 to 9 months," said Renton, who created the model while a student at Massey University. The finished product has more than 120 parts in 3 assemblies. Hal Burnham, an engineer at Dolphin MDC (1) (Mobile Daughter Card) See riser card. (2) See Meta Data Coalition. in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , took second place ($2500) for his two-seat, vertical take off and landing (VTOL VTOL n. A convertiplane that can take off and land vertically. [v(ertical) t(ake)o(ff and) l(anding).] VTOL vertical takeoff and landing ) airplane. It is modeled in Autodesk Inventor. "I first came up with this design concept in the 1960s as a vehicle that I could fly out of my backyard," said Hal. "Only since the advent of personal computer-based CAD 3D modeling programs have I been able to actually design the airplane." The model has over 40 large assemblies and complex mechanics. Hal would like to find commercial investors to produce the plane. The third place win ($1000) went to two individuals, Ooi Wei Kheun and Lin Shao Dun of Singapore for their SolidWorks model of the Singapore Flyer, a circular viewing tower currently under construction in Singapore. The model won for its scope, completeness, and quality of its animations, which detail the entire construction process. About Spatial Spatial Corp. is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software component technologies. Spatial develops, markets, and supports best-of-breed 3D component technologies and services, to address the requirements of 3D in Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) applications. Spatial's components for 3D modeling, interoperability, and visualization have been adopted by some of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, France, Japan, China and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit Spatial's Web site at www.spatial.com, or contact Spatial by email at info@spatial.com or by phone at 303-544-2900. ACIS and SAT are registered trademarks of Spatial Corp. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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