INTEGRATED SOLUTION OPTIMIZES COMPOSITE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES

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INTEGRATED SOLUTION OPTIMIZES COMPOSITE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES
24 November 2000 - VISTAGY

Composite Design Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of the world leading FiberSIM software for composite design and manufacturing on Pro/ENGINEER from Parametric Technology Corporation. Integrating FiberSIM with Pro/ENGINEER provides an environment that links powerful composite design, analysis, tooling and manufacturing capabilities.

Alan Heinlein, Software Partner Manager for Parametric Technology Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts, said: "We are pleased to welcome CDT as a member of our Cooperative Software Partners program and are excited to provide additional world-class composite engineering functionality to our user base. Our users that are making composite parts will be able to significantly reduce engineering, prototyping and tooling costs, opening up new opportunities with composites for our joint customers."

As engineers strive to increase performance of their designs by reducing weight and increasing strength and stiffness, composites become the obvious material of choice. Together, CDT and PTC will provide engineers with the ability to unlock the incredible potential of composites. According to Ralph Verrilli, CDT Pro/ENGINEER Program Manager, "We believe the integration of FiberSIM with Pro/ENGINEER will provide the tools necessary to overcome the unique challenges of designing and producing composite parts for the aerospace, automotive, marine, sporting goods and other industries needing the performance that composites provide."

Integrated Product Functionality

Engineers access FiberSIM using standard menus from within the Pro/ENGINEER environment. Because the FiberSIM functionality is accessed directly from the Pro/ENGINEER interface, users can immediately apply FiberSIM throughout the composite design and manufacturing process. All of the commands needed to associate higher level features with geometry appear on familiar Pro/ENGINEER program menus, eliminating the need to learn a new interface and allowing engineers to learn FiberSIM/Pro within hours. FiberSIM also works directly on native Pro/ENGINEER geometry without translation, preserving a single part representation and eliminating the need to manage multiple data files.

In minutes, an engineer using FiberSIM/Pro can generate fiber paths for performance or producibility analysis and net flat patterns for complex composite plies. Using a unique material simulation technology that predicts how composite materials conform to complex surfaces, FiberSIM/Pro enables engineers to concurrently satisfy part geometry, material, and process constraints. With FiberSIM/Pro, engineers can visualize fiber orientations, predict manufacturing problems and take corrective action during the design stage all from within Pro/ENGINEER. Because of these revolutionary capabilities, companies will use FiberSIM/Pro to improve productivity, quality and performance, while reducing manufacturing costs.

Ed Bernardon, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CDT added, "Based on the past success of FiberSIM, we have already experienced strong customer commitment to FiberSIM/Pro. We see sizable growth potential for PTC in composite markets in the coming years and we look forward to satisfying the needs of these customers with FiberSIM/Pro."

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VISTAGY, Inc., is a leading developer of engineering software that enhances commercial 3D CAD systems. VISTAGY’s specialized engineering environments enable engineers to capture and communicate complete digital product definitions within CAD, thereby increasing productivity, improving the communication of product information throughout the product’s lifecycle, and allowing better-informed decision making early in design. VISTAGY software is used throughout the world in the aerospace, automotive, marine, medical, sporting goods, and transportation interiors industries. The company also offers training and consulting services.

FiberSIM is a suite of software that turns major CAD systems into advanced tools for designing and manufacturing composite parts. The software enables engineers to create a complete digital product definition of a composite part within their 3D modeling environment. FiberSIM supports flexible design methodologies for a wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes and automatically generates design details all the way from complex ply and zone drop-offs to variable offset surfaces for mock-up and tooling. The software simulates how composite material deforms over complex curvature and generates manufacturing information including documentation, flat patterns, and data to drive downstream manufacturing equipment. FiberSIM also uses XML technology to share composites data with people and applications throughout the enterprise.

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