CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 May 2008
Product News
think3 Hits the Market with New Suite of CAD and PLM Solutions 2008.1
think3 has launched new release of its CAD and PLM product lines ThinkDesign Suite and thinkPLM Suite 2008.1.
ThinkDesign Suite streamlines think3’s offering of CAD solutions by aggregating a host of functionalities into four main product lines: ThinkDesign Engineering for mechanical engineers; ThinkDesign Tooling for toolmakers and technicians; ThinkDesign Styling for design specialists and ThinkDesign Professional which brings together all think3 technology functionalities into a single solution.
In addition, the Italian based software company with operations in Europe, USA, Japan and India, has announced new developments in think3’s offer of Product Lifecycle Management solutions. thinkPLM Suite now offers full integration capabilities with Outlook and Solid Edge, and includes a completely revised version of the WebTeam application, which now enables users to upload information on to thinkteam databases remotely.
ThinkDesign Suite
ThinkDesign Suite 2008.1 introduces improvements in all product areas, including enhancements to layer and workplane management functionalities, vertical functions for dies and a more powerful drawing environment to make detailing operations faster. The Renderer has been completely revised to make it more powerful and user friendly and the functions originally contained in the thinkreal module are now incorporated into the Professional, Engineering and Styling foundations. Moreover, the graphic interface has been improved while static and dynamic rendering settings have been unified. The newly launched suite also features enhanced Interactive Solid Modeling (ISM) functionalities.
Major developments in ThinkDesign Engineering solutions include the new Tubing module featuring a set of capabilities that help define tube structures. This allows users to design a tubing system, and automatically insert connectors at shared intersections and T joints, once a 3D path has been defined.
The X-Camme application allows for better flat and cylindrical cams design process. The improved interaction between think3 graphic interface and the Microsoft Excel based calculation engine, makes it easier to process and automatically generate both 3D models and all parameters needed to produce cams.
ThinkDesign Tooling features key improvements to the Compensator functions and offers a powerful solution to calculate metal sheet spined twist compensation. Enhancements include improved mesh loading, calculation, checking and curve extraction capabilities that ensure better performance and optimised results.
The Die Design module offers new features that allow for better cutting line definition and compensation of local and targeted GSM spined twist.
ThinkDesign Styling offers significant developments to the Rake-Sweep capability, which enable users to select a set of surfaces to be uniquely used as a second guide. Customers can select one or both sides where the surface will be generated, if the section is not positioned on one end of the first guide. Moreover, the new Rotational Sweep allows for the creation of rotational sweep surfaces by rotating a set of sections around an axis, which can be specified directly by the user or selected by default by the program. Optionally, users can select a set of guide curves that the rotational surfaces will follow. Autointersections are now detected and indicated by a special message.
ThinkDesign Suite now also offers ThinkDesign Modifier, a stand-alone solution designed to modify solids and surfaces imported from other CAD systems using GSM (Global Shape Modeling) and ISM (Interactive Solid Modeling).
thinkPLM Suite
Think3’s Product Lifecycle Management suite now allows for full integration with Microsoft’s e-mail management program Outlook. Its integration into thinkteam database joins the other Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) already supported by the PLM program. As a result, all e-mails that refer to a specific activity or order can be now archived in the thinkteam database together with all information needed to facilitate search and process management.
The WebTeam application enables users to access a remote thinkteam database, as well as download and upload information from a remote database. The program has been completely revamped and now boasts an innovative “task driven” interface which makes it even easier to use.
Solid Edge now joins the wide range of CAD products supported and integrated into thinkPLM Suite. Users of these modelling products can now enjoy the enormous benefits of this PLM solution from think3.
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