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July 13, 1999 |
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CANONSBURG, PA, July 6 -- ANSYS, Inc., a provider of CAE software, and International TechneGroup Inc. (ITI), a supplier of product data interoperability solutions, have announced a partnership resulting in a distribution and development agreement. According to ANSYS and ITI, the agreement involves joint development of common geometry tools for improving geometry transfer from multiple CAD programs to ANSYS. With the increased number of CAD packages currently in use, the common denominator for information transfer has become standard geometry formats such as IGES, STEP, and others. The partnership of ANSYS and ITI is designed to utilize "best-in-class" technologies from each company to enhance geometry clean-up and healing processes. The goal is to develop and distribute new tools aimed directly at one of the most difficult tasks in the engineering-simulation business: the clean geometry transfer between CAD and analysis. "It is no secret that CAD models are driving more of today's product development processes," said Don Hemmelgarn, vice president and general manager of ITI's Product Data Interoperability business. "With the growing number of design tools on the market, however, the interoperability gap with downstream applications, such as finite element analysis, is a very real problem. As a result, CAD models are being recreated at unprecedented levels." The ANSYS-ITI solution will be based on ITI's geometry-repair tool, CADfix, which is designed to improve interoperability by enabling downstream users to import, analyze, repair, and export CAD models to a variety of applications. ANSYS and ITI expect to introduce the specialized tools as early as third quarter 1999. These solutions -- designed for cleaning geometry and efficiently importing it into ANSYS software -- will be sold and supported through the ANSYS, Inc. distribution network. Back to News Center |
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