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June 2007
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CIMdata in the News "Digital Mock-Up Grows Up"
"Digital Mock-Up Grows Up" in Automotive Design and Production focuses on the relevance of digital mock-up (DMU), the computerized version, the 3D visualization, of parts and assemblies. DMU tools let users visualize, animate, dimension, manipulate, explode, fly through, cut away, and check the clearance and interference of part and assembly designs and much more.
In this article John MacKrell, senior consultant at CIMdata, offers this insight on DMU:
One of the more important changes, says John MacKrell, senior consultant at the Ann Arbor-based research firm CIMdata ( http://www.cimdata.com/ ), has been in moving "DMU out of the CAD environment, making it available to users who do not have a CAD system. This decoupling allows us to do a couple of really neat things." First, whole new classes of users-non-CAD users-now have access to DMU capabilities. Second, it speeds design analysis. "Sometimes it's good enough just to assign constraints and play with the model completely CAD-neutral environment without having real, honest-to-God analysis going on in the background." Third, decoupling lets users apply DMU capabilities to part and assembly files created by different people on different systems-in a single environment, namely DMU. It also opens DMU to a wide variety of enterprise systems.
For further information, please read:
Digital
Mock-Up Grows Up
(Automotive Design and Production, June 2007)
By Lawrence W Gould, Contributing Editor
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