LEDAS Brings Variational Direct Modeling to CAD

By DE Editors

LEDAS Ltd. (Novosibirsk, Russia), a provider of variational solvers for CAD developers, announced a free White Paper for promoting a new 3D design technology on the CAD market: variational direct modeling.

LEDAS’  “Variational Direct Modeling: How to Keep Design Intent in History-Free CAD” (free) sums up the basics of the new design technology and outlines the program for its advancement.

In the second quarter 2009, all CAD developers will be able to license the software toolkit, which facilitates development of the applications with functionalities of variational direct modeling in the shortest possible time.

Endeavoring to make the new technology available to the CAD users, LEDAS is releasing a free add-on application for the popular 3D design system Google SketchUp in October 2008; which will gradually open all opportunities of the new technology. LEDAS also announced its plans to develop similar applications for other well-known 3D modeling platforms.

A geometric model with constraints is calculated by a software component, an LGS 3D variational geometric solver, which solves the systems with thousands of simultaneous constraints in the online-mode. The solver can be integrated with all geometric modeling kernels on the market and serves as the basis for implementing the new technology of variational direct modeling. LGS Software LEDAS Geometric Solvers (LGS) 2D/3D support creation and modification of the geometric models by means of (explicit or implicit) constraints.

For details, contact LEDAS.

For recent DE coverage, see “LEDAS Releases V1.4 of LGS 3D,”  (Oct. 2008).

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.