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11 May 2005
Product News
ICEM Shape Design Software Suite Released
ICEM Ltd has announced that its new ICEM Shape Design software suite has begun shipping to customers. This follows the announcement by ICEM and Dassault Systèmes of the signing of a strategic software development agreement under which ICEM will develop a next generation of its software suite for surface and shape design using the Dassault Systemes CAA Version 5 architecture.
"Today's announcement represents another step forward to the fulfillment of our previously stated objective of providing advanced design development software solutions that fit seamlessly into a customer's existing product lifecycle management (PLM) environment", said Lee Cureton, chief executive, ICEM Ltd. "We are introducing a PLM component that tightly connects automotive companies' styling and engineering departments, which is something we believe offers the industry great value based on their comments to us over the last few years."
The ICEM CAA V5-based software suite
ICEM's CAA V5-based software suite, to be known as ICEM Shape Design, encompasses a broad range of integrated shape generation, visualization and modeling tools.
The ICEM Shape Design software suite comprises a core product, ICEM Shape Design Centre, providing comprehensive surface modeling and analysis facilities. ICEM Shape Design Centre is also the pre-requisite base for a wide range of optional, add-on modules to include advanced surface modeling, reverse engineering and data manipulation, analysis and design visualization.
Initially, these optional, add-on software modules within the ICEM Shape Design suite include and will be known as:
• Expert-for global surface model manipulation.
• Theme-for preparing 3D wire-frame and surface models from stylists' 2D sketches.
• Form-an intuitive polygon modeling tool for quickly creating, editing or enhancing shape and form from a concept or an existing physical model.
• Scan-for handling, trimming, filtering and diagnosing imported 3D scan data.
• Quick Surfacer-for the semi-automatic generation of a surface model from imported 3D scan data.
• Renderer-for generating high quality rendered and ray-traced photo-realistic images and movies of a digital mock-up.
• Real-Time Renderer - for the creation of dynamic, photo-realistic images and animations in real time.
Fully integrated
The ICEM Shape Design software suite is offered as fully integrated components of a PLM systems environment based on Dassault Systèmes' CAA V5 architecture. As a result, a seamless workflow of design data is created from initial surface model to final design approval, whilst allowing visibility to all associated manufacturing functions.
Additionally, ICEM Shape Design comprehensively addresses the needs of customers who require a standalone solution for shape and surface development.
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