CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 August 2004
Product News
ICEM Announces New Standalone, Real-Time Design Visualization Software Product
ICEM Ltd. announced a new, standalone software package for creating photo-realistic visualizations of CAD models generated either with the automotive industry's preferred surface modeling software, ICEM Surf, or with other vendors' engineering CAD systems.
ICEM Vis can be used to compose and generate both high quality, photo-realistic static images of CAD surface models as well as dynamic visualizations for live presentations and design assessments. Design visualization tools include real-time rendering, dynamic self-shadowing, reflection mapping, transparency, highlights, lens flares, model navigation, camera fly-through, animation and a dedicated background image facility. This enables a number of images or environments to be imported and placed on different viewing planes. The user is able to define a virtual environment, with multiple light sources, colors and types, hard and soft shadows, self-shadows, fogging and depth of field and to assign textures and materials to the digital model surfaces for added reality.
To enable live design presentations and reviews, ICEM Vis also enables the rendered CAD model to be dynamically moved while maintaining the photo-realistic representation, including shadows, highlights and reflections.
Design data from other vendors' engineering CAD systems can be imported into ICEM Vis via an industry-standard IGES or STL interface, either of which, at the customer's choice, is included in the package as standard. Additional-cost, direct interfaces are also available for Catia V4 and Catia V5 from IBM/Dassault Systemes, for Unigraphics, I-deas and NX from UGS and for CADDS and Pro/E from PTC.
"At Euro 9,500 (US$10,925), ICEM Vis offers an affordable solution to the design review and presentation needs of design engineers in all areas of the discrete manufacturing sector," said Lee Cureton, chief executive, ICEM Ltd. "With its real-time rendering, advanced visualization and direct data import capabilities, we believe it will be an attractive proposition to existing users of ICEM Surf, as well as to users of other vendors' engineering CAD systems."
With its headquarters in the UK, ICEM Ltd. is a worldwide developer and supplier of advanced, surface-based modeling software for use in the design development of automotive vehicle bodies and interiors and industrial design products. The company has a worldwide network of sales and support offices and specialist distributors covering continental Europe, the USA, Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
ICEM's principal market sector is the worldwide automotive industry, where it includes most of the leading manufacturers among its customers, including the Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler Group, Volkswagen Audi Group, Porsche, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Nissan, Subaru and Harley Davidson among others, as well as leading automotive industry companies such as Volke, EDAG, Pininfarina, Bertone and Bertrandt, among many others.
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