Wizard Shows Great Tolerance

By DE Editors

You know the story: As many as half the parts and assemblies you designdo not fit or work as expected the first time around. ToleranceCalcwizard maybe the easy-to-use solution you're looking for, according toits developer GEOMATE Co. (San Jose, CA).

Just released in a new updated version, the ToleranceCalc wizardenables in-process tolerance stack-up and six-sigma quality analysis ofparts and assemblies in any CAD and solid modeling application. Withit, you can extract 1D and 2D linear tolerance vectors from anyDXF-compliant CAD application, at any stage of the design process, andthen receive worst-case stack-up analysis results in minutes.Additionally, with just a few mouse-clicks you can apply standard MonteCarlo analysis to obtain sigma-quality and reject rate information.

GEOMATE says that wielding the ToleranceCalc wizard is as easy as spellchecking. It does not require any specialized knowledge of dimensionalengineering and can be used by design and quality engineers as well asdesigners the first day, says the company.

Price: $95. For full details, visit the GEOMATE website.