PRESS RELEASE
3rd August, 1999FEGS welcomes joint ANSYS/CADfix Integration
ANSYS, the leading global provider of advanced computer-aided engineering (CAE) software and International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI), a leading provider of product data interoperability solutions, have announced a partnership resulting in a mutual distribution and development agreement. Within the framework of this agreement is the joint development of common geometry tools aimed at improving the success of transferring geometry from multiple CAD programs to ANSYS. ITI is represented in the UK by its Cambridge-based subsidiary, FEGS.
The alliance between ANSYS and ITI is designed to utilise best-in-class technologies from each company and develop tools which will drastically enhance geometry clean-up and ‘healing’ processes. The result of this joint investment will be the development and distribution of new tools aimed directly at the most time-consuming and difficult task in the engineering simulation business: clean geometry transfer between CAD and analysis.
"With analysis becoming a more integral part of the design process, it is important to customers that ANSYS software works with their existing CAD data. We are addressing the needs of the engineering community by creating custom tools that enable easy and effective geometry transfer," said Paul Bemis, ANSYS Vice President of Marketing.
"It is no secret that CAD models are driving more of today’s product development processes," explains John Meaney, Sales and Marketing Director of FEGS. "With the growing number of design tools on the market, the interoperability gap with downstream applications, such as finite element analysis, is a very real problem. As a result, CAD models are being recreated at unprecedented levels."
The ITI/ANSYS solution is based on FEGS’s geometry repair tool, CADfix, which bridges the interoperability gap by allowing downstream users to import, analyse, repair and export CAD models to a variety of applications.
"FEGS is looking forward to working closely with established CAE market leader, ANSYS, to provide a reliable CAD to CAE interoperability solution," says John Meaney. "We are fully confident that the new specialised tools will be available as early as the third quarter of this year."
Note to editors:
FEGS Limited was founded in the late 1970s by Dr Geoff Butlin and is an established name in pre- and post-processing for finite element analysis. CADfix is the fruit of FEGS’s ongoing R&D in the field of data exchange over the past 18 years. FEGS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ohio-based International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI).
For further information, please contact:
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Ben Bush/Nick Lerner
The CroCodile Public Relations. Tel: 0171 749 4400 Fax: 0171 739 4042 |
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John Meaney
TranscenData Europe Limited. Tel: 01223 237 111 Fax: 01223 234 192 |
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