VRcontext Increases Realism with Walkinside 4.5

By DE Editors

VRcontext (Brussels, Belgium) expanded Walkinside for real-time visualization of complex 3D virtual models to deliver enhanced functionalities for Plant Design IT managers, with new batch processing capabilities and heterogeneous database support.

Plant Design IT managers can merge and keep access to heterogeneous attributes databases. Reviewers receive new configuration features allowing smoother reviews and easy setup. It is possible to work with databases and measure distances even in models having no collision data.

To support multidisciplinary projects, heterogeneous file formats, database projects, and team working conditions, VRcontext also introduced a new concept to rework virtual reality models by adding animated or static characters, increasing the realism of the view. Users can place furniture, plants, and people in their models and save the resulting scene arrangement.

VRcontext has a library containing a population of 35 avatars, men, women, a fireman and a wheelchair user, used as models to "populate the scene." The user's avatar can be exchanged by any 3D model like a car, an airplane, or any piece of equipment. Users can use their own symbol models to enhance the scene aspect with trees, cars, furniture, etc. — not available in the original CAD models — and save the result for later use. This concept also allows adding/removing models, and saving the resulting model as a new configuration.

This new release comes with FLEXnet license manager as well as a new pricing scheme.

For details on Walkinside, go to VRcontext.

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