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Press Releases : January 19, 2006
CAD USERS GET FLEXIBLE MULTICAD MODEL REPAIR AND EDITING ENVIRONMENT
Marlborough, MA - January 19, 2006 - Kubotek USA today introduced REALyzeT, an integrated set of software tools developed to help engineers and designers understand and edit "dumb" geometry. Kubotek is bringing this product to market to help CAD/CAM professionals share imported models between disparate CAD systems in an effort to streamline the design and manufacturing process. REALyze has been developed to complement and coexist with popular CAD platforms.
"Interoperability is one of the CAD industry's most challenging problems to solve," said Robert Bean, chief operating officer, Kubotek USA. "Even though the industry has been working on this problem for decades, and standards for sharing files already exist, product models still contain layers of data that are very hard to decipher. Unique and proprietary CAD formats complicate the problem while global supply chains make it one of the more pressing issues to solve."
Engineers and designers need to be able to access and edit any file, regardless of its origin. Time-to-market pressures are constant and there is no time to waste. REALyze provides a dynamic environment in which designers and engineers, when confronted with a model in an unfamiliar format, can access the model's geometry in order to work with the file and avoid having to recreate work previously done. REALyze allows designers to shortcut overall time to market.
CAD interoperability has been documented as a major issue in the manufacturing sector. Kubotek's have shown that more than 75 percent of survey respondents receive fewer than half of external CAD models in a preferred format. Fifty percent of respondents stated the need to use three or more CAD tools per month. The cost of maintaining multiple systems - software upgrades, training, and maintenance fees - continues to rise.
Kubotek Architecture Facilitates Real World Usage
- The industry's most powerful and comprehensive translators
- Fully automated and manual repair, discovery and verification, plus newly added covering (n-sided fill) techniques for local model repair
- An intuitive and completely free-form approach to changing imported models and dumb geometry for downstream reuse.
Dumb Files Aren't Dumb
As CAD systems have matured, more and more intelligence is being embedded in the file. This intelligence includes design intent, proprietary data definitions, unique formats, and history trees. Unlike parametric software, Kubotek technology doesn't put intelligence into the file. Instead the intelligence is in a tool that can discover features and patterns hidden in the geometry. Other translation tools experience limitations since they try to translate only the dumb "B-rep" (boundary representation) data or attempt to decipher the history tree.
"Even dumb geometry has a certain amount of inherent intelligence," stated Ken Versprille, Ph.D., PLM research director, CPD Associates, LLC. "In the industry's rush to parametric-based modeling techniques, it overlooked possible advances in recognizing the pure core intelligence in explicit geometry. By exploiting the growing computing power now available to users, Kubotek has uncovered a way for users to get deeper into the heart of a model and make it more usable."
Availability
REALyze will be licensed as a single seat or enterprise concurrent use license. The product begins shipping on February 15, 2006. Kubotek will demonstrate REALyze at SolidWorks World next week. (Booth #102)
About Kubotek
Kubotek USA, Inc., headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation. Kubotek USA develops and manufactures KeyCreator mechanical CAD software, (formerly CADKEY), REALyze multiCAD interoperability tools, rapid prototyping and non-contact inspection systems, and offers the free Spectrum multiCAD viewer. Visit Kubotek at: www.kubotekusa.com.
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