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28 February 2012

Product News

Design Simulation Technologies Licenses Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed 3D DCM for New SimWise 4D Solution

Siemens PLM Software announced that Design Simulation Technologies, Inc., a developer of software for the teaching, learning and application of physics principles, has licensed its D-Cubed™ software and integrated it into the recently released SimWise 4D product.

SimWise 4D is an analysis tool for design and engineering professionals which combines rigid body dynamics simulation and FEA analysis into a single, integrated environment. It can help determine the functional performance of a design by calculating collision response, dynamic reaction forces, motion induced stresses and strains and by producing physics based animations. Design Simulation Technologies is using the D-Cubed 3D Dimensional Constraint Manager (3D DCM) component in SimWise 4D to help position parts in a scene prior to analysis.

"Even though our requirements are somewhat unique, the D-Cubed 3D DCM met them in full, and on a highly demanding schedule," said Alan Wegienka, President of Design Simulation Technologies. “As a result of its continuous development for more than 20 years, the 3D DCM has a wide-range of very robust capabilities, and we feel it makes great business and technical sense to use the market leading 3D geometric constraint solver from an established and trusted supplier of open component technologies such as Siemens PLM Software.”

“We are proud of our ability to address the challenging requirements established by Design Simulation Technologies,” said Paul Sicking, CTO, Siemens PLM Software. “Our commitment to openness and to our customers’ success is what enables us to power innovative applications like SimWise 4D and what has helped us establish the large number of long-term relationships we have, and the new relationships we continue to create. Our customers appreciate our dedication and long term commitment, as this gives them the stability needed to develop innovative and profitable software products.”

About PLM Components

PLM Components include Parasolid® software, and the D-Cubed family of software products, which constitute widely used technologies providing 3D part and assembly modeling, editing and interoperability, 2D/3D parametric sketching, motion simulation, collision detection, clearance measurement and visualization functionality. Applications that incorporate these components cover a wide variety of categories including mechanical CAD, CAM, CAE, mold design, sheet metal, AEC, GIS, structural, plant and ship design, CMM, reverse engineering and sales configuration. For more information please visit http://www.siemens.com/plm/open.

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