Mechanical Dynamics Earns Recognition
26 June 1998
Mechanical Dynamics Earns Recognition as SolidWorks Gold Partner, Expects Bigger Share of Design-Centric Simulation Market to Result
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 25 -- The Design Technologies Division
of Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. , developer of the Dynamic
Designer/Motion software for mechanical design simulation, has been named a
SolidWorks Gold Partner by SolidWorks Corp. of Concord, Mass.
The division's Dynamic Designer/Motion software for SolidWorks(R) software
users is a fully embedded add-on product for use with the popular PC Windows
95/NT-based SolidWorks mechanical design automation software.
"Being named a SolidWorks Gold Partner is an important achievement for
Mechanical Dynamics," says Robert R. Ryan, the company's president and chief
operating officer. "It greatly expands our access to the mainstream, PC-based
mechanical design automation market, where SolidWorks plays a leading role.
Earlier this year, we formed our Design Technologies Division to specifically
address this design-centric market, and achieving SolidWorks Gold Partner
status was a critical step we set for the division."
The SolidWorks Partner Program promotes the development and sale of
products designed to maximize the productivity of SolidWorks users. "Gold
Partners," notes John McEleney, vice president of product marketing for
SolidWorks, "are the best of the best, representing the top level of business
and technology partnership. These companies' products are not only the best
in the industry, their single-window integration with SolidWorks meets the
highest standards for ease of use and associativity."
McEleney adds, "We are very excited to have Mechanical Dynamics as a
SolidWorks Gold Partner. The integration of world-class simulation
capabilities with SolidWorks solid modeling significantly extends the range of
solutions we can provide to our customers."
Dynamic Designer/Motion for SolidWorks is built upon the ADAMS(R) dynamic
solution engine from Mechanical Dynamics. ADAMS is the world's most widely
used mechanical system simulation software, today relied upon by thousands of
engineering teams from nearly every manufacturing industry.
"With Dynamic Designer/Motion," says Alan Wegienka, director of Mechanical
Dynamics' Design Technologies Division, "users can see and study the full-
motion operational behavior of their mechanical system designs without leaving
their familiar SolidWorks environment. There's no need to transfer parts
geometry from SolidWorks or learn a new software interface."
A user of Dynamic Designer/Motion can augment a SolidWorks assembly with
joints, forces, cams, followers, and motion generators to produce a fully
functioning computer model of the complete mechanical system. The user then
runs this model through realistic 3-D motion tests, with equations of motion
automatically solved and simulation results displayed in high-speed animation
or plotted in graphs.
"The result," says Wegienka, "is a complete, accurate simulation of the
SolidWorks assembly in operation, done entirely on the computer, before
cutting a single piece of metal or molding a single piece of plastic."
SolidWorks users interested in trying the Dynamic Designer/Motion software
can download a free, limited-time-usage evaluation copy from the Design
Technologies Division's Web site at http://www.designtechnologies.com, or can
order the free evaluation software on a CD by calling the division at
888-882-3267.
The Design Technologies Division of Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. provides
embedded mechanical design simulation software for use with the leading PC-
based computer-aided design (CAD) systems, including SolidWorks, the Autodesk
Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD, and Bentley Systems' MicroStation Modeler. The
division's Dynamic Designer products allow engineers and designers to answer
questions about their designs' full-motion performance from within their
preferred CAD environments.
About SolidWorks
SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company ,
develops and markets mechanical design software products for Windows.
SolidWorks was founded in 1993 with the mission to bring production solid
modeling to the desktop of every engineer. SolidWorks has offices worldwide
and distributes its products through a network of 160 resellers
selling in 43 countries. In just eight quarters of shipping product,
SolidWorks has sold more than 15,000 seats of software to more than 6,000
customers.
About Mechanical Dynamics
Mechanical Dynamics pioneered the field of mechanical system simulation,
and has remained focused on this technology since its founding in 1977. The
company's ADAMS software enables users to build and test virtual prototypes,
realistically simulating on their computers, both visually and mathematically,
the full-motion behavior of their complex mechanical system designs.
Using ADAMS can help users save time by identifying design problems early
in development, cut costs by reducing the need for expensive physical
prototypes, and improve quality by helping users optimize their mechanism
designs.
Additional information about Dynamic Designer/Motion for SolidWorks is
available from Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., Design Technologies Division, 2301
Commonwealth Blvd., Ann Arbor, Mich., 48105 USA. Phone: 734-214-9716. Fax:
734-214-9717. E-mail: info@designtechnologies.com. Online:
http://www.designtechnologies.com.