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Tools of Our TradeWe invest in the latest software tools to perform our work. Each package has been selected to maximize client value. We retain one or more specialists for each package, so that we can offer our clients someone who uses the software on a daily basis and has the most current release. A brief description of each of our key software tools follows.
SolidWorks is the world's best selling mechanical design automation (CAD) software. With 3-D solid modeling capability, it can create parts compatible with key fabrication methods, including machining, molding, casting and sheet metal forming. It builds these parts up into assemblies using powerful part "mating" relationships, allowing the user to verify the fit and function of complex assemblies at the design stage. SolidWorks is a fully parametric system, which mean that a part's shape and dimensions can be easily changed at any time with a few key strokes. The system integrates seamlessly with popular Computer Aided Machining (CAM) packages, enabling "prototyping without prints". For production documentation, it also creates printed fabrication drawings which maintain their parametric relationships to the parent model files.
form•Z's ability to combine solid and surface modeling has made it a favorite in multiple design fields and industries that include architecture, product design, the entertainment industry, as well as illustrators, exhibit display designers, furniture manufacturers, forensic animators, web designers, desktop publishers, and many more.
Parametric Technology Corporation's suite of Pro/ENGINEER solutions allows for the creation of virtual 3D parts and assemblies of almost limitless complexity and accuracy , along with fully ANSI/ISO compliant manufacturing drawings. The parts, assemblies and drawings are fully associative and parametric. The parametric integration flows further into a host of Parametric Technology's and third party design, analysis, manufacturing, and rendering products. These including Pro/MECHANICA, COSMOS, Pro/NC, TI/Tol, Pro/PDM, Pro/INTRALINK. For those who prefer their drawing output in AutoCAD® format we have AutoCAD 2000. This software is a customizable 2D/3D design and drafting environment and toolset. Architects, engineers, drafters, and design-related professionals use it to create, view, manage, plot and output, share, and reuse accurate, information-rich drawings.
Zemax is the most popular window-based optical ray tracing software package on the market. Using ray-tracing methods based on classical Newtonian geometrical optics, it is suitable for the design of a wide variety of optical systems, including lenses, cameras, endoscopes, telescopes, microscopes, projectors and many more. It creates optical "prescriptions" which describe how the lenses, prisms and other components are formed. It performs tolerance analysis, determining the effect of individual and combined tolerances on system performance. It produces final fabrication drawings which contain all component dimensions and tolerances from which optical fabricators work. Zemax files can be exported directly into SolidWorks, speeding opto-mechanical design and system integration.
TracePro® is a revolutionary program for modeling the performance of optical systems and illumination systems. It is the first optical ray tracing software to be based on the industry standard ACIS® solid modeling kernel from Spatial Technology, Inc. TracePro is used for illumination analysis, stray light analysis, non-imaging analysis, radiometric analysis, or any application where you must accurately determine distributions and intensities of light. TracePro features a graphical user interface with familiar Windows menus, dialog boxes, and toolbars, and databases of material properties and surface properties. Because TracePro is based on ACIS, it shares the same file format with other ACIS-based applications, allowing smooth two-way data file sharing with many CAD programs. Data files can be exchanged with other CAD programs using optional STEP and IGES translators. www.lambdares.com/PRODUCTS/tpro/tracepro.html
ASAP is the leading software for non-sequential ray tracing for illumination design. With its integrated bulb library and direct importing of data for radiant sources, the system can design projectors, concentrators, light pipes, faceted reflectors, fiberoptics devices, and light source assemblies. It analyzes stray light and accounts for surface scattering. The software integrates with Zemax and SolidWorks, resulting in fast system integration. ASAP is widely used to design appliances, automotive illumination, medical systems, theatrical lighting, and room lighting.
Moldflow delivers the "faster, better, cheaper" molding solutions to our clients. It is a process wide plastics simulation package that allows the designer to determine the moldability of a part early in the design process. Fully integrated with SolidWorks, designers can assign one of 2500 polymer materials to their part, specify molding temperatures and pressures, and in seconds determine how well the mold will fill. The designers can then immediately modify their part and rerun the molding simulation. The software provides a "confidence of fill" rating, allowing the designer to insure manufacturability before the mold is started. Savings in time and money can be enormous!
COSMOS/Works offers powerful, easy to use design analysis that is seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks. Powered by the fastest solvers in the industry, COSMOS/Works delivers high-end analysis features at a fraction of the cost of traditional FEA programs. From structural and thermal analyses to assemblies with gap, contact and friction, COSMOS/Works can meet even the most complex design analysis challenges with ease. Got a complicated design with over a million degrees of freedom? Need to optimize an assembly with gaps, friction and multiple moving parts? COSMOS/Works can handle these problems and more. By utilizing revolutionary new accuracy tools, COSMOS/Works calculates results accurate enough to offer true shape optimization of your designs. COSMOS/Works allows you to conduct virtual testing and optimization throughout the entire design cycle, thereby minimizing the need for expensive, time-consuming analysis and prototypes. When it comes to accurate stress results, numerous benchmark studies have shown that no mainstream analysis program compares to COSMOS/Works. Only COSMOS/Works includes AccuStress®, a breakthrough tool that enables accurate stress calculations. AccuStress® features a new transitional meshing technique. By creating a finer mesh in those areas that need it the most, AccuStress® delivers the accurate stress results that you need to perform true design optimization. With optimization and simulation features imbedded within SolidWorks, COSMOS/Works allows you to revise designs quickly and accurately without constantly redefining the analysis. Working Model is the easiest to use and the most complete dynamics/kinematics motion simulation product in the world. From software company Knowledge Revolution, it is the first computer-aided engineering (CAE) tool that intuitively merges modeling, simulation, and analysis under one consistent Windows interface. Working Model allows us to design in our preferred environment with seamless interfaces to SolidWorks, and Pro-E. It turns CAD models into software prototypes that we can roll, bounce, slide, collide, wiggle and destroy. This is all done on the computer before expensive parts are made. Our clients enjoy lower costs-to-market and greater confidence that their products will work right the first time.
With over 1.5 million users worldwide, Mathcad® is the industry standard calculation package for technical professionals and the technical academic community. Mathcad is unmatched in breadth of functionality and provides an environment of inherent interactivity, featuring:
Mathcad combines extensive, easy-to-use publishing capabilities with a self-documenting style that simplifies communication and encourages collaboration throughout organizations of all sizes, making it the ultimate technical calculation and design solution.
OrCAD is an electronics design software system with modules covering the entire electronics development process. OrCAD starts with electronic component selection. Its Component Information System consists of a resident library of over 30,000 components stocked by hundreds of manufacturers, eliminating the need to maintain printed catalog libraries. In addition, OrCAD's online Internet Component Assistant provides access to the company's database of over half a million integrated circuits. Partnerships with major component distributors facilitate the ordering of components online. As components are selected, designs are created complete with part numbers, footprints, and other data needed for production. OrCAD's Capture module performs circuit design, creating schematics, block diagrams, and bills of material. The Pspice module simulates the performance of analog and digital designs, often eliminating the need for brassboards. Finally, the Layout module is used to design the printed circuit boards (PCBs) on which the components are mounted. Layout's output files can be provided to PCB fabricators, who make prototypes with the electronic data. Within hours, prototypes can be available which closely match the final PCBs to be used in production. These windows-based OrCAD tools allow the fastest possible design, simulation, prototyping, and manufacture of electronic circuits. |
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