Forming Technologies Inc. (FTI) the industry’s leading developer of solutions for design, simulation, planning and costing of sheet metal components, announced release of FTI 5.1.4 CATIA V5-Based software. Aimed at all sheet metal forming and costing engineers, designers, and estimators in the Automotive, Aerospace, Consumer Product and Electrical/Electronic industries, the main objective of FTI CATIA V5-Based software is to introduce new leading edge technology to stamping simulation and to provide continuous improvement to all users in a unified collaborative environment.

SimLab is a process oriented, feature based finite element modeling software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate engineering behavior of complex assemblies. SimLab automates simulation- modeling tasks to reduce human errors and time spent manually creating finite element models and interpreting results. SimLab is not a traditional off the shelf Pre and Post processing software but a vertical application development platform to capture and automate simulation processes.

ANSYS Inc. announced the availability of its leading provider of electromagnetic simulation software, ANSYS Electromagnetics 15.0, providing new, unique capabilities and enhancements that offer the most advanced approach to guide and optimize product designs. ANSYS is the leading provider of electromagnetic simulation software, engineers rely on our electromagnetic field solvers and system simulation products to design communication and networking systems, integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electromechanical systems.

FRIENDSHIP-Framework is a generalized CAE platform for the simulation-driven design of any products with flow-related tasks. Our software allows you to automate your design variation studies and shape optimizations. We integrate with most of the leading commercial CFD codes as well as in-house codes. Are you using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) to design flow-exposed products or components? Is the fluid dynamic behavior of your design critical for realizing the performance requirements? Are you doing a lot of manual iterative work, and hoping to find an incrementally better design? Would you like to boost your product development workflow by introducing an automated process that not only saves you time but also allows you to investigate tens or hundreds of design possibilities, resulting in superior products? If your answer is yes, then FRIENDSHIP-Framework could be the perfect solution for you.

Madrid-based Next Limit announced the latest version of its industry-standard fluid simulator, RealFlow 2013. Nextlimit technologies have released RealFlow 2013, and after announcing it nearly a year ago, RealFlow flaunts a new and improved large scale fluid solver in Hybrido 2. Designed to make short work of splash and foam with new emitters and a new base solver Hybrido 2 offers much more detail in simpulations.

Next Limit has released Maxwell Render 3, a significant update to its physically based renderer, adding tools for volumetrics and ocean simulation, support for new open standards, and a number of workflow improvements.

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