Released July 2006
D-Cubed announces the latest release of its Collision Detection Manager (CDM), the leading component for collision detection and clearance computations. Excellent performance is achieved without compromising accuracy. The CDM is compatible with any application as it is independent of any particular modeller or model format. New enhancements specific to version 35.0 are listed below. See the full product description.
Market leading performance is a key objective for the CDM and intensive development efforts are made to ensure that performance is optimised in many situations. Examples include incremental computations for moving parts, specific algorithms for analytic, parametric and faceted geometries and a range of sophisticated boxing test optimisations. The CDM is also highly versatile, being able to identify those parts and faces that are touching in addition to those that are colliding, for example. In this release, the algorithms for detecting touching faces have been enhanced to improve the performance where the application needs to distinguish between those faces which are colliding and those faces which are touching.
The previous version of the CDM included new functionality that can calculate the first collision along a given path without having to sample in small steps. As a result, entire linear movements of parts can be checked for collisions in a fraction of the time. Reliability is also improved in such situations since the CDM can guarantee such a path to be collision free, which can’t be achieved with a step-wise calculation. This release has seen enhancements to the robustness of these sophisticated new algorithms. Applications include faster off-line Coordinate Measuring Machine simulation, as seen in this press release.
First released in 1999, the CDM is used in many leading CAD/CAM applications. Operating in assembly, mechanism, machining and measuring simulation environments, the CDM enables users to interact with their models with much improved realism and solidity, eliminating design errors caused by interpenetrating parts.
The CDM's success is due to a range of novel algorithms specifically designed to interactively detect collisions and compute clearances, even on large, complex assemblies. Performance is particularly excellent for repeated computations on models that are in motion. Independent from any modeller or model format, the CDM operates on exact, faceted, solid or surface representations from any application.
D-Cubed software is part of the PLM Components suite of solutions and represents a family of geometric software components that enable key functionality in CAD, CAM, CAE, and PLM applications, including sketching, part and assembly modeling, motion simulation, collision detection, clearance measurement and hidden-line visualization.
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Neil Howarth
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