Join for Image-based model generation with Simpleware

This webinar, 20 Jan. 2010, is aimed at those interested in 3D reconstruction from radiology images, and in using 3D image data (as obtained from CT, Micro-CT, MRI and Ultrasound) to generate Rapid Prototyping, CAD, and Finite Element models.

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Simpleware announces ScanIP Version 4.2

Simpleware – which provides and develops world-leading mesh generation software for the conversion of 3D scan data – is delighted to notify you that version 4.2 of ScanIP has been released. This latest release introduces some exciting new features that will help you accelerate the process of segmenting and meshing 3D data.

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Daimler Selects CAD Software from Siemens as New Platform for Worldwide Car and Truck Development. Daimler To Replace CATIA With NX

Siemens PLM Software announced that starting in the summer of 2012, Daimler AG would be using NX as their new platform for worldwide car and truck development. According to the press release, the decision to move away from CATIA was mainly due to the need for tighter integration of their CAD system with Smaragd, their home grown PLM system based on TeamCenter from Siemens PLM.

To give you an idea of the size and complexity of Smaragd, consider this. It is a global PLM system running on 100 servers and has four integrated databases. It is used by 8,000 engineers spread across the world along with designers, staff at production facilities and even members of the executive board.

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ANSYS Ranked on FORTUNE 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List for Second Consecutive Year

ANSYS, Inc. has been ranked number 39 on the 2010 FORTUNE 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list. The ranking includes ANSYS as the sole provider of product development software, a recognition that underscores the strategic value of engineering simulation as well as the ANSYS leadership position in this growing and critical market. This is the second consecutive year that ANSYS has been included in the elite FORTUNE grouping.

"In the current economy, organizations need to launch superior products quickly under competitive, cost and regulatory pressures," said Jim Cashman, president and CEO of ANSYS.

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Intergraph Announces Agreement to be Acquired by Hexagon AB

Intergraph announced that it will be acquired by Hexagon AB for an enterprise value of $2.125 billion.  Hexagon is a leading global provider of precision measurement technology systems.  Hexagon was founded in 1992, is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and is publicly traded on the Nordic exchange (ticker “HEXAB”) with a secondary listing on the Swiss Exchange (ticker “HEXN”).  The transaction combines a leading global measurement hardware company with a leading global process engineering and geospatial software company to create a unique and differentiated technology business in the marketplace.

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Sigma Technology colloaborates with DS SolidWorks Corp

Sigma Technology, international provider of the indirect optimization method based on self-organization (IOSO) technology, announced it has joined the Solution Partner program of DS SolidWorks Corp. Sigma Technology is starting the procedure of integration between its well proven optimization code IOSO and SolidWorks® 3D CAD software, that is developed and marketed by DS SolidWorks Corp.

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CompMechLab becomes the official distributor of Simpleware solutions in Russia, CIS and Baltic countries, Poland and Finland

June 1, 2009

CompMechLab Ltd. becomes the official distributor in the Russian Federation, CIS Countries, Poland and Finland of Simpleware software solutions for robust, fast and easy conversion of 3D images (MRI, CT, MicroCT, etc) into high quality meshes, which can be used for FEA, САD, САD and RP. Simpleware technology has opened up FEA and RP manufacturing to a variety of applications and research fields including: biomechanics, analysisof materials and composites, geophysics, industrial reverse engineering and natural science.

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Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences and CompMechLab announce 4th Computational Mechanics Workshop

Research Centre YTI of the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences and CompMechLab of St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University  announce the 4th Mikkeli Computational Mechanics Workshop. The event will take place in Mikkeli, Finland, at August 9-16, 2009.

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CompMechLab publication in ANSYS Advantage

In the December issue of ANSYS Advantage magazine the article Designing Safe Crackers by A. Michailov, I. Voinov and A. Borovkov is published. The artilce discovers some details about project performed in CompMechLab in 2007 at the request of chemical equipment manufacturer JSC Neftehimproekt and devoted to 3D structural analysis of a catalytic cracker taking into account the effects of external fluid flow as well as overall thermal and mechanical stress.

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5000 Registered Users at FEA.ru!

On October 25, 2008 number of registered users at www.fea.ru reached 5000! Since May 2003 the number of Russian-speaking registered users is 3797, International users - 1203.

In this context we would like to present some data about growth of attendants of our web-site during its more that 5-year history. We're very glad that our research projects and animations in the AVI-Gallery have growing popularity.

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