CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 April 2005
Product News
ALGOR V17 Features New AISC Code Checking
ALGOR, Inc. announced that its new software release, ALGOR V17, features all-new American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) code checking, tree support for surface and body loads, support for hyperfoam and anisotropic materials, rotating reference frames for modeling circulating flows, combined graph and result contour displays and much more.
ALGOR V17's new AISC code checking helps facilitate the design of steel structures, made up of beams and trusses, and ensure code compliance to satisfy third-party design approval," said Juan Garcia, Engineering Director of Pipetech Design & Construction Ltd. in Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom. "It provides us with a powerful code-verification tool that makes our overall design process quick and efficient."
"Simply clicking on the model tree to select and modify surface and body loads is fast and easy," said Tommy Breaux, Vice President of Engineered Casting Repair Services, Inc./Metalock Corporation in Denham Springs, Louisiana. "Additionally, the capability to display graphs in the same window as result contours makes my presentations more vivid and effective. V17 allows me to display results exactly as I want in screen displays, animation files and HTML reports."
"ALGOR V17 provides a wide range of new and enhanced tools for design, analysis and results evaluation and presentation," said ALGOR Product Manager, Bob Williams. "These tools allow users to work more productively and intuitively with greater flexibility and convenience. V17 is another example of our commitment to providing powerful and easy-to-use features that increase our customers' return on investment."
ALGOR V17 also includes:
• streamlined electronic user's guide, which makes it easy to find help
• streamlined startup with improved launch screen and dialogs
• ruler to display scale when viewing models
• expanded sketching capabilities including ability to intersect and trim line elements
• improved speed of Superdraw sketching, modeling and meshing functionality
• support for anisotropic material properties in linear stress analysis
• new Mechanical Event Simulation (MES) capabilities such as support for hyperfoam materials
• new CFD capabilities such as:
• support for curves to define fan effects
• support for fans at arbitrary orientations
• support for local coordinate systems
• improved weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia calculations
• ability to save probes and min/max annotations
• improved overall ease-of-use of the report wizard and environment
• improved support for large models
• and more.
To see a free learning session on the new ALGOR V17, view the "ALGOR V17" Webcast on the ALGOR web site. For more detailed information, contact an ALGOR account manager or visit the "ALGOR V17" features page .
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