CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
October 25, 2004
Product News
IronCAD Releases New Motion Simulation Functionality Based on UGS' PLM Components
UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced IronCAD has integrated and released the D-Cubed 3D Dimensional Constraint Manager (3D DCM) component in its 3D design solution, IronCAD V8.0.
The 3D DCM has been accepted as the industry standard component solution for adding a 3D constraint solving capability to a variety of geometric software applications. Its applications include assembly modeling, mechanism simulation, direct non-history-based part modeling and parametric 3D sketching.
IronCAD developers were able to implement a wide range of new positioning constraints using the 3D DCM including tangent, distance, angle and cam follower, providing greater flexibility in the creation of assemblies. Once partially or fully assembled, users can drag parts to investigate their motion in accordance with the applied constraints, enabling IronCAD users to engage in constraint-based mechanism simulation.
"The 3D DCM component was the obvious choice for extending IronCAD's motion simulation tools," said Shaun Murphy vice president of Sales and Marketing for IronCAD. "In addition to quickly delivering new capabilities, licensing the 3D DCM meant we could focus our own resources on other functional areas, enabling us to implement more than 200 customer-driven enhancements in our V8 release."
3D DCM complements IronCAD's prior integrations of UGS' PLM Components - Parasolid® software, one of the world's leading geometric modeling kernels and the D-Cubed 2D DCM solver for constraint-based sketching.
"IronCAD V8 clearly demonstrates that UGS' PLM Components help adopters satisfy the requirements of their customers quickly with technology that they know they can trust," said Bruce Feldt, vice president of Open Tools for UGS. "We welcome extended business with IronCAD and its positive endorsement of UGS' winning open business model."
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