Proficiency Releases Collaboration Gateway Version 3.5, Advancing...

PR Newswire;  June 21, 2004 ;     787 words ......product lead, with support for assembly constraints, surfacing features and methodology...highlights include: * Support for Assembly Constraints - Collaboration Gateway Version 3.5 enables assembly constraints such as mate/contact, offset...

Design intent and iMates. (Inventor In-Depth).

Cadence;  March 1, 2003 ;   Wymer, Jeff;   787 words ......capture the design intent of the assembly constraints at the component level. To extract...assembly and may have a variety of assembly constraints applied. The second option, Create...iMates, will collect all of the assembly constraints applied to an instance and group...

Proof Positive: check the quality of inventor models. (First look reviews:...

CADalyst;  July 1, 2003 ;   Fane, Bill;   670 words ......Positive automatically skips inappropriate tests such as assembly constraints on a single part. If you click on a specific test, as...standards, or check a model to make sure that certain assembly constraints aren't used. You can customize the severity level of...

Explosive Scenes.(Product Support)

Cadence;  October 1, 2000 ;   WILSON, JOHN;   787 words ......factor. Explosion factors rely on assembly constraints that involve opposing planes. For...explosion factors because their assembly constraints are either not based on planes or...direction, without regard to their assembly constraints. When you invoke AMTWEAK from the...

Exercising your design. (Solid Thinking).(SolidWorks)(Tutorial)

Cadence;  July 1, 2002 ;   Jankowski, Greg;   787 words ......An assembly layout sketch or simple skeleton part Assembly Constraints An assembly constraint is a method in which SolidWorks...is not what you expect, then review, modify, and add assembly constraints (mates) until the component is fully constrained or constrained...

Booleans and Mechanical Desktop.(Product Support)

Cadence;  June 1, 2000 ;   WILSON, JOHN;   787 words ......Boolean operation.) Often you will use Mechanical Desktop's assembly constraints, which are sometimes referred to as 3D constraints, to...Mechanical Desktop, pp. 86-89) for information about assembly constraints. 2. If necessary, use the AMACTIVATE command to establish...

3-D motion simulator

Mechanical Engineering;  February 1, 1999 ;   Anonymous;   161 words ......constraint mapping expands a Solid Edge assembly into a functioning Working Model by automatically mapping geometry and assembly constraints into a motion model with true mechanical joints. When the user modifies a model in Solid Edge, Working Model 3D automatically...

COMPREHENSIVE TOOL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Precision Toolmaker;  November 1, 1995 ;     382 words ......operating environments for simple point and click operation. CoroTAS Windows incorporates smart functionality to detect assembly constraints for tool holders, collets etc in tool assemblies and enhanced geometry creation capabilities automatically generate high...

Software combines motion simulations and FEA.(VisualNastran Desktop)(Brief...

Machine Design;  May 3, 2001 ;   Greco, Joseph;   643 words ......such as SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Pro/E, and Mechanical Desktop. When run independently, CAD models must be imported, but assembly constraints are still read and interpreted as different types of joints. The program includes elementary modeling commands that seem...

Working model 3D v3.(version 3)

Design News;  May 4, 1998 ;   Davidson, Hunter, Jr.;   725 words ......WM installing new Desktop menu items. To use the CAD interface, build an assembly model in the CAD system, adding CAD assembly constraints. Then, launch WM3D from within the CAD system. WM3D creates faceted WM3D objects from the CAD solids, and converts the...

Optimized tolerances make good products better: Software pinpoints which...

Machine Design;  March 7, 2002 ;   Bogard, Tim;   787 words ......modeling, the technology tells engineers which variations in assembly constraints will affect performance in the as-designed model. During...FUNCTIONAL ASSEMBLY MODELING This step determines the assembly constraints that meet performance requirements. Doing so requires...

Mechanical tolerance analysis. (Computer Hardware & Software).(Sigmetrix...

Plastics Engineering;  August 1, 2002 ;   Molinaro, Hope;   328 words ......Updated features include: * Assembly parametric mode. Modeling of joints for tolerance analysis uses existing Pro/Engineer assembly constraints, cutting modeling time in half. * Enhanced part overlay modeling. Drag and drop functionality and intelligent GD&...

Proficiency Inc.'s collaboration gateway: latest version attacks the...

Industry Week;  December 1, 2004 ;   Teresko, Jon;   787 words ......group. Version 3.5 of Proficiency's solution, Collaboration Gateway, extends the solution's capability with support for assembly constraints, surfacing features and methodology and provides enhanced support for top-down associative design techniques. As with...

Local Custom Metal Fabricator Finds Niche in High-End Applications.

PR Newswire;  June 7, 2001 ;     685 words ......deal more than just a job shop. Particularly with the decommissioning projects, equipment has special fabrication and assembly constraints and finishes to withstand caustic wash downs and for safety purposes to protect personnel that must work while wearing...

Truck builder makes smooth design-archive shift.(case books)

American Machinist;  April 1, 2006 ;     448 words ......for converting features and mating constraints, and it eliminates human error. CADfeature translates part features and assembly constraints among a number of 3D CAD systems. It employs the application-programming interfaces (APIs) of each CAD system to read...