MCAE INTRODUCES NEW PARAMETRIC MODELING TOOL WHICH IMPORTS NURBS AND
PARAMETRIC SURFACES

(Indianapolis, Indiana -- September 12, 1994) MCAE, Inc. today announced
the release of the InConcept parametric modeling system which will serve
as an alternate front end for the company's Inertia mechanical and
structural engineering software. InConcept reads parametric and NURBS
curves and trimmed surfaces through IGES making it the first finite
element analysis mesher capable of importing models from all of today's
most advanced solid modelers including Pro/Engineer and CATIA. InConcept
imports actual trimmed surfaces thus reducing editing time. The program
will also read an ANSYS input file exported from Pro/Engineer and other
solid modeling packages. It also reads loads and boundary conditions.
InConcept provides the ability to edit surfaces parametrically. The
dimensions of any feature on the model can be changed simply by entering a
new dimension. The rest of the model will then automatically adjust itself
to the changed dimension. The program automatically meshes surfaces using
shells, solids and highly accurate quadrilateral shell or solid elements.
A wide range of engineering attributes can be attached to the model
including loads, boundary conditions, convection, radiation, flux and
pressure. The program provides feature based volume meshing using extrude,
revolve and sweep features and volume meshing on volumes with curved
edges.

The Inertia engineering system is designed specifically to bring advanced
computerized mechanical engineering techniques to the general purpose
user. It takes advantage of the pioneering efforts in the Macintosh and
Microsoft Windows environments such as non-hierarchical pop-up menu
structures, dialog buttons, and icons to simplify the user interface. The
Inertia engineering system supports all major graphic operating
environments including Microsoft Windows 3.1, Open Systems Foundation's
MOTIF, Sun's Open Look, and Apple Macintosh. The program runs identically
with a single user manual on all of these platforms and can share binary
data between them when they are linked on a single network. Inertia also
is available in a large number of languages which means that engineers in
different countries can share data over an international network. For more
information, contact Modern Computer Aided Engineering, Inc., 8425
Woodfield Crossing Blvd., Suite 221, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. Phone:
800-444-6223, fax 317-469-4130.

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