Siemens PLM Software Releases New D-Cubed 3D Component Software Solutions, 2 in a Series

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software has announced new releases of four of its D-Cubed component software products. Version 40.0 of the 3D Dimensional Constraint Manager (3D DCM), the Assembly Engineering Manager (AEM), the Collision Detection Manager (CDM), and the Hidden Line Manager (HLM) contain new enhancements.

3D DCM, a software component that positions parts in assemblies, simulates their kinematic motion, and parametrically controls the configuration of 3D sketches and the shape of parts, includes the following enhancements:

• Spline curve constraints. A growing number of customers use the 3D DCM for parametric 3D sketching, especially in support of spline curve and surface design and 3D routing applications. Two key improvements in this area have been made in this latest release: equal curvature vector constraint and update tangent magnitude during an evaluation.
• New diagnostic information for over-defined models. Version 40 includes two enhancements to the diagnostic information to help application developers and users with this issue.

CDM is a software component that detects collisions and computes clearances. New enhancements include:

• Support for faceted parts when testing for collisions along a path.
• The ability to return the type of region over which the clearance occurs now supports faceted parts.

AEM, a software component that provides a more realistic and productive assembly environment, also includes new enhancements:

• Improvements to algorithms involving specific combinations of faces and edges to simulate the interaction of parts in assemblies and mechanisms.
• Various specific customer usage modes.

HLM, a software component that computes hidden line views, includes an improved thread-safe version. It was made available as an option with version 39 to enable multiple instances of the HLM to run on parallel processors. However, each thread-safe instance of the HLM had slightly worse performance compared with the non-thread-safe version. In this release, the necessary changes have been made to eliminate this performance disadvantage, enabling the thread-safe version to be the standard version.

3D DCM, CDM and HLM are also thread-safe on a range of supported operating systems, including Unix, Linux, and Apple platforms.

For more information, visit Siemens PLM Software.

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