NexGen Updates HumanCAD to V 1.1

By DE Editors

NexGen Ergonomics (Montreal, Quebec) updated its HumanCAD to Version 1.1, the first update since its release last May of its digital human modeling technology.

Useful for determining the human fit of products and workplaces before they are built, HumanCAD 1.1 has a more intuitive interface, a plug-in system, and new inverse kinematics.

HumanCAD's new ErgoTools module includes the HumanCAD 3D static biomechanical model, and interface to the University of Michigan 3DSSPP and the 1991 NIOSH lifting equation. Plus, HumanCAD now runs natively on Mac OS X, on both Intel and PowerPC architectures. All HumanCAD modules will be supported.

Other new features include a new camera management for the creation of custom viewpoints and cameras; a new library of hand postures; and improved forward and inverse kinematics controllers, and screen capture to PNG files, to name a few of the other fixes.

Software and instrumentation from NexGen, whose website includes the Ergonomics Resource Center, offers ergonomic and biomechanical job analyses, design, and research suited for biomechanical, 3D digital human modeling, video analysis, DA, motion capture systems, force measurement, human vibration analysis, EMG and physiological measurement applications.

For details, go to NexGen Ergonomics Inc.

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