CAD Users Get Flexible MultiCAD Model Repair and Editing Environment

    MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Kubotek(R) USA today
 introduced REALyze(TM), an integrated set of software tools developed to help
 engineers and designers understand and edit "dumb" geometry.  Kubotek is
 bringing this product to market to help CAD/CAM professionals share imported
 models between disparate CAD systems in an effort to streamline the design and
 manufacturing process.  REALyze has been developed to complement and coexist
 with popular CAD platforms.
     "Interoperability is one of the CAD industry's most challenging problems
 to solve," said Robert Bean, chief operating officer, Kubotek USA.  "Even
 though the industry has been working on this problem for decades, and
 standards for sharing files already exist, product models still contain layers
 of data that are very hard to decipher.  Unique and proprietary CAD formats
 complicate the problem while global supply chains make it one of the more
 pressing issues to solve."
     Engineers and designers need to be able to access and edit any file,
 regardless of its origin.  Time-to-market pressures are constant and there is
 no time to waste.  REALyze provides a dynamic environment in which designers
 and engineers, when confronted with a model in an unfamiliar format, can
 access the model's geometry in order to work with the file and avoid having to
 recreate work previously done.  REALyze allows designers to shortcut overall
 time to market.
     CAD interoperability has been documented as a major issue in the
 manufacturing sector. Kubotek's recent industry surveys
 (http://www.kubotekusa.com/products/survey_1) have shown that more than 75
 percent of survey respondents receive fewer than half of external CAD models
 in a preferred format.  Fifty percent of respondents stated the need to use
 three or more CAD tools per month.  The cost of maintaining multiple systems
 -- software upgrades, training, and maintenance fees -- continues to rise.
 
     Kubotek Architecture Facilitates Real World Usage
     REALyze takes advantage of the rich interoperability foundation developed
 for Kubotek's flagship KeyCreator software.  This allows REALyze to recognize
 geometric entities across proprietary formats, providing the basis for the
 product's advanced translation and repair capabilities.  At its core, REALyze
 has the ability to perform geometric search and pattern and feature discovery.
     Kubotek's REAL architecture enables the REALyze toolset to work seamlessly
 for repair and reuse of geometry.  REALyze includes:
 
      *  The industry's most powerful and comprehensive translators
      *  Fully automated and manual repair, discovery and verification, plus
         newly added covering (n-sided fill) techniques for local model repair
      *  An intuitive and completely free-form approach to changing imported
         models and dumb geometry for downstream reuse.
 
     The REAL architecture powers REALyze with the three essential elements
 necessary to fix models without recreating or attempting to translate a file's
 entire history tree -- translation, healing and editing capabilities.  This is
 an important distinction for designers and engineers when time is of the
 essence.  REALyze provides an environment where CAD/CAM users have the tools
 that work in concert to tackle the complexities of the interoperability,
 repair, and reuse process.
 
     Dumb Files Aren't Dumb
     As CAD systems have matured, more and more intelligence is being embedded
 in the file.  This intelligence includes design intent, proprietary data
 definitions, unique formats, and history trees.  Unlike parametric software,
 Kubotek technology doesn't put intelligence into the file.  Instead the
 intelligence is in a tool that can discover features and patterns hidden in
 the geometry.  Other translation tools experience limitations since they try
 to translate only the dumb "B-rep" (boundary representation) data or attempt
 to decipher the history tree.
     "Even dumb geometry has a certain amount of inherent intelligence," stated
 Ken Versprille, Ph.D., PLM research director, CPD Associates, LLC.  "In the
 industry's rush to parametric-based modeling techniques, it overlooked
 possible advances in recognizing the pure core intelligence in explicit
 geometry.  By exploiting the growing computing power now available to users,
 Kubotek has uncovered a way for users to get deeper into the heart of a model
 and make it usable."
 
     Availability
     REALyze will be licensed as a single seat or enterprise concurrent use
 license.  The product begins shipping on February 15, 2006.  Kubotek will
 demonstrate REALyze at SolidWorks World next week.  (Booth #102)
 
     About Kubotek
     Kubotek USA, Inc., headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is a wholly owned
 subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation.  Kubotek USA develops and manufactures
 KeyCreator mechanical CAD software, (formerly CADKEY), REALyze multiCAD
 interoperability tools, rapid prototyping and non-contact inspection systems,
 and offers the free Spectrum multiCAD viewer.
     Visit Kubotek at: http://www.kubotekusa.com
 
     Kubotek, KeyCreator, REALyze, and CADKEY are registered trademarks or
 trademarks of Kubotek Corporation.  All other brand and product names are
 trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
 
 

SOURCE  Kubotek USA

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