Thread-safe Capability Now Standard with ACIS 3D Modeler

By DE Editors

Spatial Corp. has announced that thread-safe capabilities are now included standard with ACIS 3D Modeler. Greater end-user demand for higher application performance and the growing ubiquity of multi-core hardware platforms is driving the development of multi-threaded applications.

McMaster University has implemented ACIS thread-safe capabilities in both a machining tool path optimizer and a rapid prototyping wall thickness verification program. 

“Using parallelism, we have achieved exciting speed improvements in our manufacturing software applications,” said Allan Spence, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University.  “Working with the Spatial team and tools, we were quickly able to implement multi-threaded capabilities, realizing near 3x speed-up on a quad-core computer.  For over 15 years, our use of Spatial products have provided us with an excellent and progressive platform solution for our manufacturing technology research and development.”

In addition to providing partners the foundation for developing high-performing multi-threaded applications, thread-safe capability enables Spatial to deliver thread-hot ACIS functions. For example, in ACIS R20 Spatial introduced multi-threaded entity-point-distance (MTEPD) functionality. According to the company, improving the performance of this function is especially important in metrology applications where point-to-point distance calculations between the design model and manufactured parts can number in the millions. MTEPD tests have shown calculation times can be improved by up to 70 percent depending on the size of the model and the number of points being evaluated.

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