PADT is proud to announce that it has added the VCollab 3D Visual Collaboration Software for CAE (http://www.vcollab.com) to its software product offerings. PADT will offer VCollab along with VCollab’s facilitating CAX file format to deliver on the growing need for smaller simulation result files and increased efficiency in data transfer to its customers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. You can read more at on our press release.
What does this mean to you the ANSYS user? Well it means you can share your models and results in 3D with others: over the web, imbedded in MS Word or PowerPoint, from within EKM, or as a stand alone file. The tool converts your monster ANSYS result file into a lightweight file that only has the results you want to share. We like it because of the small file size and the fact that we can send one 3D “image” instead of a bunch of different 2D images to our customers.
You can learn more about it at our next Webinar:
Using VCollab to Share 3D ANSYS Results
September 13, 2012
12:00 – 1:00 MST
You can also look at the one we use in the Webinar:
We will be sharing more on this tool as time goes by.
We announced that we were a Geomagic reseller when we rolled out our 3D Laser and Cross Sectional Scanning hardware offerings. Although we added this as a tool for our scanning customers, we have found many ANSYS customers that are interested in it or that already had it in house.
If you don’t know Geomagic, it is a suite of tools that take scan or faceted (yes, meshes are included) and allows you to repair them, wrap them, compare them, or convert them to usable CAD solid geometry. Yes, this is the tool you have been looking for to take your distorted FEA mesh and convert it into a usable CAD model.
So we wanted to let everyone know that we are now certified to offer training on the Geomagic suite. As always, we can offer training when your want it and where you want it, or you can sign up for one of PADT’s scheduled classes. The first two are in October:
10/17/2012 – 10/19/2012 Geomagic Studio PADT’s Tempe Office
10/22/2012 – 10/24/2012 Geomagic Qualify PADT’s Tempe Office
Click on the course names to get more information on the content and to register, or simply contact us at 480.813.4884 or training@padtinc.com.
Look for some Focus articles on Geomagic, or a seminar for ANSYS users, later in the year when we get caught up on our backlog and Joe has some time to prepare something.
