SpaceClaim release 6 ideas

All, so we are planning Release 6 right now and all feedback is greatly appreciated. What I found the last time I asked this question is that we were able to handle many feature requests in the Service Packs of the current release -- and I hope to be able to do that this time as well.

If something is obviously broken, call or contact Technical Support so we can get a call # assigned to it -- but if you can think of something (however small) that would really make SpaceClaim perform well in your environment, I would like to know about it. Feel free to pile onto other people's requests, too.
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Tags: 6, Release, behavior, enhancements, workflow

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Permalink Reply by Poorvesh Mistry on March 16, 2010 at 10:47pm

Hi Frank,

I was just trying out some mechanism, but faced the same issue which was a concern for Assembly design in SpaceClaim. There is no option to define a component as a fixed (non-moving) component, so the parts in the assembly tends to fly away.

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Permalink Reply by Poorvesh Mistry on March 17, 2010 at 2:26am

I just wanted attach a video to this post.
In the video, initially I have tried moving the piston in a linear motion, but the mechanism didn't worked.
Then I rocked the Link where I got satisfactory motion of the links, except that I wanted the Cylinder to be fixed. And found that not all the annotations stick to the respective parts.
Finally by moving the Blade about it's pivot, I got the relative motion & the Annotations also maintained the link to the parts.

Attachments:

Mechanism.scdoc, 222 KB
MECHANISM.wmv, 3.2 MB

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Permalink Reply by Frank D on March 17, 2010 at 4:42am

Poorvesh
We didn't add any type of "Ground" or "Fix" function, true, but as a workaround you can align an origin in a component to the World Origin and stop the "flying away"
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Permalink Reply by Poorvesh Mistry on March 17, 2010 at 8:08am

Thanks Frank, that did worked well, but don't you think that it is good to introduce fixed & floating components option.

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Machine.wmv, 1.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by Frank D on April 28, 2010 at 7:58am

Poorvesh
We are planning on adding an "Anchor" function in R6.
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Permalink Reply by Bas on March 23, 2010 at 2:08am

I tried some 4-bar linkages, but could not get the kinematic solving to work properly. Is there a demo or tutorial on how to work with mechanisms?

Kind regards, Bas

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Permalink Reply by Frank D on February 17, 2010 at 10:07am

Matteo
You should see some significantly-improved sheetmetal tools and functions in R5 SP1, due out on Friday this week.

Also, Sheetmetal is a large area of focus for us, for R6.

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Permalink Reply by christopher bartlett on December 18, 2009 at 3:28pm

Frank,

Greater interoperability with common other applications like Excel, MatLab or Mathmatica could be very useful. This would allow some parameterization for the refinement of geometry. I would also suggest that the ability to incorporate geometric constraints and inverse kinematics--in the manner of Inventor, Solidworks and Alibre would also be quite useful.

Interoperability with common programs--similar to the "ODBC" dynamic links of Autocad that would allow engineers to manipulate model geometries and even drive simulations without requiring an elaborate front-end via SpaceClaim. By simplifying SpaceClaim's interface--from that required by a full blown simulation engine--the major expense of re-training personal would be reduced and design firms could re-use internal calculations in the development of new products using SpaceClaim.

Ideally to with such a feature any text field--dimensions, part orientations, moments of inertia, masses etc.. could be linked to a spreadsheet or some other intermediate document.

This would allow SpaceClaim to bridge the gap between more experienced engineers and younger and more computer savvy engineers and avoid the problems associated with the complex "Black Box" analysis tools of SpaceClaim's competitors.

CB

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Permalink Reply by Poorvesh Mistry on March 19, 2010 at 8:52pm

I to believe in it Christopher, that their should be an option like "Design Table" in CATIA or like "Configuration" settings in SolidWorks, which can export dimensional data to Excel or Notepad, change in the values their should synchronize with 3D model.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Crosby on December 19, 2009 at 2:42pm

What are the chances of getting an export to Ansys IcemCFD's .tin file format? Would be even nicer if it could also read these files.

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Permalink Reply by christopher bartlett on December 20, 2009 at 6:07pm

A more generalized connectivity between Spaceclaim and external applications similar to that advertised in the link below--to MAPLE--would be very useful.

http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/features/images/cad_connect...

CB