14th
FEB

VariCAD 2010 v2.0

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VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD solution for mechanical engineering. In addition to standard tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting, the CAD system provides tools for sheet metal unbending and crash tests, libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN) and symbols, mechanical part calculations and tools for working with bills of materials (BOMs) and title blocks.VariCAD supports STEP, STL, IGES, DWG and DXF file formats.

Key Features:

Quick Demonstration:
· Watch how to create your 3D models or 2D drawings with VariCAD. This online demostration shows you how the VariCAD interface looks and how easy it is to design with the program.

User Interface and System Environment:
· VariCAD’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been designed to allow quick and intuitive 3D/2D orientation. We carefully tailored and tuned the GUI to reflect the thought process of a designer, so that ideas can be captured and communicated with a minimal number of steps. All commands were created with a focus on ease of use. An intelligent cursor, numerous detection and selection modes, 2D construction lines, and the orthogonal grid are just some of the tools that make working with VariCAD so easy.
· You can start by creating a 3D model and then use it to automatically create drawings files, or you can draw only in 2D. Designing in 3D is generally more “natural,” in that it closely represents actual parts and assemblies. The 3D approach is usually more intuitive than 2D drafting. Models created in 3D are easily converted into conventional 2D documentation.

3D Modeling:
· VariCAD provides a library of basic 3D solids (prism, cylinder, cone, etc.), which are easily modified by editing the original profile or parameters. Solids can also easily be created by profile rotation, extrusion, or lofting. More complex tools include rotation blending between two profiles, lofting between a circle and rectangle, and creation of helical surfaces.
· Solids can be added or subtracted, thus forming Boolean trees representing real mechanical parts. Boolean operations have options for automatic trimming, or automatic removal of subtracted volumes. Predefined operations like hole drilling, face milling, groove milling and edge beveling/filleting are also available. Boolean trees are very easy to edit.

3D Tools - Assemblies, Groups, Parts etc:
· VariCAD also provides tools for assembly support. If the link between a part and assembly is defined, any changes made to the part file are reflected in the assembly file and vice-versa. Linked copies can also be defined. In this case, editing of one object causes all its linked copies to be updated. Solid groups can be defined as well, making selection and visibility changes simple for multiple objects.

Crash Tests (Interferences):
· One excellent feature of 3D modeling is component interference checking. VariCAD can check 3D assemblies for possible collisions (overlapping volume) between components.

Calculations:
· VariCAD can calculate 2D section area, surface area, volume, mass, center of gravity, and moment of gyration. A library of mechanical calculations is also included, for standard parts used every day by mechanical designers. These mechanical parts include tension and compression springs, pre-stressed bolted connections, pins and parallel keys, grooved shafts, bearings, beams under combined stress (bending and torsion), spur and bevel gearing geometry, and belt drives.

Surface Development (Sheet Metal Unbending):
· VariCAD can also create developed (flattened) surfaces of 3D solids. The XY coordinates of the developed surfaces can be saved to a text file for further processing. You can input bending coefficients in order to customize your calculations.

Mechanical Part and Symbol Libraries:
· VariCAD contains libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN), such as bolts, nuts, pins, plugs, cotters, gaskets, bearings, rolled and drawn shapes, and hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic symbols. You can add items to these libraries or modify existing parts - all 2D and most 3D dimensions can be edited.
· Non-graphical information can also be assigned to parts, such as type of material or supplier. This information is incorporated into an assembly and can be used for material requisitions, bills of materials (BOM), title blocks, or other purposes.

3D - 2D Export:
· 3D models are easily converted into 2D drawings to produce conventional drafting documentation. You can create 2D views of one or more selected solids by defining the views in 3D. In addition, you can also export specified sections. VariCAD supports updates of a 2D drawing after changes in 3D.

2D Drawing and Editing:
· Drawing functions are geared toward easy use in engineering. Some handy features of 2D drawing include: an intelligent cursor that automatically detects objects and snap points, numerous snap modes, flexible item selectability, auxiliary construction lines, ortho mode, rectangular grid, drawing layers (up to 250), block creation, hatching with automatic border detection, advanced dimensioning, surface texture symbols, welding symbols, tolerance symbols, and more. Dimensions can be in millimeters or inches.

BOM and Title Blocks:
· VariCAD provides tools for maintaining drawing databases, which represent the data structure of the product. Databases can be created manually (using data extraction from the assembly), or by loading a file. There are constraints between data in part and assembly drawing title blocks and the assembly database. You can build a bill of material (BOM) from the database, then easily modify the database using commands like mass attribute changes, sorting of information, etc.
· The data structure of the product (BOM) can be exported into other systems or into a spreadsheet. Automatic BOM and title block creation is another one of VariCAD’s useful tools. A mask is used for customization; if you create masks for BOM and title blocks, you can use them until a change is necessary. The CAD system provides default masks which can be adjusted to suit your needs.

Compatibility:
· VariCAD can interchange files with other CAD systems. You can import STEP (3D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D) and IGES (2D) files, and export STEP (3D), STL (3D), IGES (3D and 2D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D). The files can be converted individually or in batch routines, thereby converting multiple files in one step.

Printing and Plotting:
· Printing within VariCAD is highly customizable. You can use Windows or KDE Linux printer drivers, or VariCAD built-in drivers. Postscript printing is also available.

Summary:
· VariCAD is a total CAD solution for mechanical engineering. It is compact, fast, easy to use, and contains everything you need for mechanical engineering design. The high performance and powerful tools of our fully loaded package make VariCAD a superb investment. And at our price, no other product is a better value.

30th
JAN

Solid Edge ST2 MP2 Portable

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Solid Edge is an industry-leading mechanical design system with exceptional tools for creating and managing 3D digital prototypes. With superior core modeling and process workflows, a unique focus on the needs of specific industries, and fully integrated design management, Solid Edge guides projects toward an error free, accurate design solution. Solid Edge modeling and assembly tools enable your engineering team to easily develop a full range of products, from single parts to assemblies containing thousands of components. Tailored commands and structured workflows accelerate the design of features common in specific industries and you ensure accurate fit and function of parts by designing, analyzing and modifying them within the assembly model. With Solid Edge, your products come together right first time, every time.
***Windows XP Professional© operating system (32-bit or 64-bit)- Internet Explorer 7 or 8 (IE 6.0 minimum)***

18th
JAN

CivilFEM v12.0 x64

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CivilFEM - is a specialized add-on to ANSYS for the construction tasks, developed by Spanish company Ingeciber. By embedding in the menu ANSYS, CivilFEM complements his broad-purpose capabilities, the usual estimator for the buildings, grounds and foundations, bridges, tunnels, dams, etc., simplifies and automates both pre and postprocessing.
CivilFEM can be purchased and used as an addition to the ANSYS / Professional, Structural, Mechanical and Multiphysics.

CivilFEM has a modular structure:
Intro - the base product
Adv. Prestressed Concrete - prestressed concrete
Bridges & Civil Nonlinearities - Bridges and nonlinear models of concrete (creep, shrinkage, cracks)
Geotechnical - Soil Mechanics
CivilFEM Intro
Library materials (including more than a hundred of soil and rock) and standard cross sections (CEB-FIP, Eurocode 2,3, ACI, AISC, British standard, UNE, ASTM, EHE, EA, GB-50010, GB-50017 )
specialized tools for preprocessing beam and shell structures
Composite section
Placement and selection of valves
Special tools for combining the cases of loading
Seismic
Checking for compliance with building codes
Adv.Prestressed Concrete
Special tools for designing \ selection of pre-stressed reinforcing elements
Analysis of loss of pre-stress
Bridges & Civil Nonlinearities
concrete shrinkage and creep
special master for constructing geometrical and finite element models of bridges on the principal seheme and section canvases
tools to build standard and custom sections carrying canvases
Job stress: moving vehicle, etc. and combining the calculated cases
simulation of the construction (load during construction)
Geotechnical
Checking for compliance with European and American standards Geotechnical
Library properties of soils and rocks
Deep foundation
The foundations are shallow and superficial laying
Retaining walls
Tunnels
Stability of slopes
Filtering

Extras. Information: This is an additional module for Ansys. Apart from Ansys it will not work. CivilFEM 12 only works with Ansys 12
To work CivilFEM necessary after installation of utility Administration Utility to specify the license file Civil.ath. This file is in your License File distribution program. When the program pops up an error message “The encoded line cannot be properly interpreted”, but it does not affect the efficiency of the program.

ear: 2009
Version: 12.0
Developer: Ingeciber
Platform: win x64
Compatibility with Vista: unknown
System requirements: The more powerful the computer, the faster the view
Language: English only
Medicine: Present

19th
DEC

SMART Utility 2.1.2 (2B069)

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SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements(called attributes) of a hard drive’s operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is failing. SMART Utility can read and display these attributes. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. SMART Utility also allows running a drive’s built in self test, which can also indicate malfunctions on the drive.

Features

Displays all supported drives and their partitions
Displays important information in the main window, such as drive model, capacity, power on hours, temperature, bad sector counts, and error counts and types
Displays easy to read overall SMART status with color coded text
Displays more detailed information in separate windows, including capabilities, all available attributes, and the past five errors
Displays information using the Growl notification service (if installed)
Supports scanning in the background
Supports running a hard drive’s built-in test, and displays the results of the test
Supports scanning OS X software RAID drives, as well as drives in many RAID enclosures and cards (including SeriTek drives)
Supports logging all information to a log file for verifying SMART data
Supports customizing the pre-fail algorithm, including only alerting new bad sectors and error counts
Supports Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5 or later, including 10.6, and both PowerPC and Intel Macs
Fully localized in French, thanks to Ronald A. Leroux

30th
NOV

Zuken CADSTAR 12.0

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Zuken CADSTAR - a set of design, providing one of the best CAD solutions in the world on a platform of personal computers. The system as a whole contains a full set of necessary tools and includes an input circuit, placement, manual, interactive and automated tracking, analysis, signal integrity and electromagnetic compatibility, the three-dimensional analysis of the boards in their mechanical environment and preparing design documentation. Schematic Editor, included with all versions of CADSTAR, is an integral part of the system. Configuration management and hierarchical structure of projects, copying modules from one project to another, hot link, multivariate, and top-down design, installation requirements and restrictions are automatically transferred to other subsystems that provide complete control over the project.

Key features:

The main module is the editor of CADSTAR PCB PCB Design Editor, integrating the full range of physical design and generation of output files for production. The main modules of designing the topology of systems are placing and tracing family PREditor XR. The standard for any system is the CADSTAR system XR-2000, which in its built-in option is always part of the editor printed circuit boards. System XR-2000 provides manual and interactive component placement on the motherboard and manual, interactive and automatic tracing and can be used independently, without an editor PCB Design Editor.

Special architecture bessetochnoy contour tracing with arbitrary angles and a database with a resolution of 1 / 100 micron enables a CADSTAR PREditor XR projects with the maximum achievable at present production capacity. PREditor XR includes a set of special tools trace such as trace memory, data bus, algorithms River to trace connections to the same layer of the shortest paths and Activ-45, for an interactive trace, auto-completion, with angles of 45 degrees of the densest areas of the project. The board may ask the designated area, which will be associated with its own rules trace width of conductors and the gap between them, the size of vias and the use of blind passages. Such areas can be set on any layer boards without any restrictions on their form and quantity. This is especially useful when tracing blocks with a dense deployment of the findings, such as BGA, CPS and SMD. To facilitate the conditions for automatic trace and maximum density equipment for such buildings can also create and save templates layout of contacts.

CADSTAR EMC Adviser module allows the analysis of electromagnetic compatibility on the basis of a system embedded in a set of rules that provides a simple and flexible control over different kinds of constraints that influence the electromagnetic characteristics of circuit boards. This module is targeted at a broad range of developers who might not be experts on the subject, to predict the early stages of project execution and analysis of those aspects of the project, which may cause problems of electromagnetic compatibility.

CADSTAR SI Verify module provides signal integrity analysis, including analysis, reflection and crosstalk, and the computation of the temporal characteristics and the delay for individual chains, and simulation of the entire board when designing the topology. Both products use a single library that can be easily replenished and edited by the user. Users can define their own models or import standard IBIS models, and test characteristics in graphical form.

Inbox in the CADSTAR library includes over 300 circuit symbols and 14,000 standard components, and graphics editors libraries, schematic symbols, and components with default templates and generators to make it easy to replenish the standard libraries. Even more than 60,000 components in CADSTAR format available in a special archive at the site of the company Zuken, is accessed from the module CADSTAR Exchange.

OS: WinAll
Language: English

25th
OCT

VariCAD 2010 v1.01

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VariCAD 2009 is a 3D/2D CAD solution for mechanical engineering. In addition to standard tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting, the CAD system provides tools for sheet metal unbending and crash tests, libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN) and symbols, mechanical part calculations and tools for working with bills of materials (BOMs) and title blocks.VariCAD supports STEP, STL, IGES, DWG and DXF file formats.

key Features:
Quick Demonstration:
· Watch how to create your 3D models or 2D drawings with VariCAD. This online demostration shows you how the VariCAD interface looks and how easy it is to design with the program.

User Interface and System Environment:
· VariCAD’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been designed to allow quick and intuitive 3D/2D orientation. We carefully tailored and tuned the GUI to reflect the thought process of a designer, so that ideas can be captured and communicated with a minimal number of steps. All commands were created with a focus on ease of use. An intelligent cursor, numerous detection and selection modes, 2D construction lines, and the orthogonal grid are just some of the tools that make working with VariCAD so easy.
· You can start by creating a 3D model and then use it to automatically create drawings files, or you can draw only in 2D. Designing in 3D is generally more “natural,” in that it closely represents actual parts and assemblies. The 3D approach is usually more intuitive than 2D drafting. Models created in 3D are easily converted into conventional 2D documentation.

3D Modeling:
· VariCAD provides a library of basic 3D solids (prism, cylinder, cone, etc.), which are easily modified by editing the original profile or parameters. Solids can also easily be created by profile rotation, extrusion, or lofting. More complex tools include rotation blending between two profiles, lofting between a circle and rectangle, and creation of helical surfaces.
· Solids can be added or subtracted, thus forming Boolean trees representing real mechanical parts. Boolean operations have options for automatic trimming, or automatic removal of subtracted volumes. Predefined operations like hole drilling, face milling, groove milling and edge beveling/filleting are also available. Boolean trees are very easy to edit.

3D Tools - Assemblies, Groups, Parts etc:
· VariCAD also provides tools for assembly support. If the link between a part and assembly is defined, any changes made to the part file are reflected in the assembly file and vice-versa. Linked copies can also be defined. In this case, editing of one object causes all its linked copies to be updated. Solid groups can be defined as well, making selection and visibility changes simple for multiple objects.

Crash Tests (Interferences):
· One excellent feature of 3D modeling is component interference checking. VariCAD can check 3D assemblies for possible collisions (overlapping volume) between components.

Calculations:
· VariCAD can calculate 2D section area, surface area, volume, mass, center of gravity, and moment of gyration. A library of mechanical calculations is also included, for standard parts used every day by mechanical designers. These mechanical parts include tension and compression springs, pre-stressed bolted connections, pins and parallel keys, grooved shafts, bearings, beams under combined stress (bending and torsion), spur and bevel gearing geometry, and belt drives.

Surface Development (Sheet Metal Unbending):
· VariCAD can also create developed (flattened) surfaces of 3D solids. The XY coordinates of the developed surfaces can be saved to a text file for further processing. You can input bending coefficients in order to customize your calculations.

Mechanical Part and Symbol Libraries:
· VariCAD contains libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN), such as bolts, nuts, pins, plugs, cotters, gaskets, bearings, rolled and drawn shapes, and hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic symbols. You can add items to these libraries or modify existing parts - all 2D and most 3D dimensions can be edited.
· Non-graphical information can also be assigned to parts, such as type of material or supplier. This information is incorporated into an assembly and can be used for material requisitions, bills of materials (BOM), title blocks, or other purposes.

3D - 2D Export:
· 3D models are easily converted into 2D drawings to produce conventional drafting documentation. You can create 2D views of one or more selected solids by defining the views in 3D. In addition, you can also export specified sections. VariCAD supports updates of a 2D drawing after changes in 3D.

2D Drawing and Editing:
· Drawing functions are geared toward easy use in engineering. Some handy features of 2D drawing include: an intelligent cursor that automatically detects objects and snap points, numerous snap modes, flexible item selectability, auxiliary construction lines, ortho mode, rectangular grid, drawing layers (up to 250), block creation, hatching with automatic border detection, advanced dimensioning, surface texture symbols, welding symbols, tolerance symbols, and more. Dimensions can be in millimeters or inches.

BOM and Title Blocks:
· VariCAD provides tools for maintaining drawing databases, which represent the data structure of the product. Databases can be created manually (using data extraction from the assembly), or by loading a file. There are constraints between data in part and assembly drawing title blocks and the assembly database. You can build a bill of material (BOM) from the database, then easily modify the database using commands like mass attribute changes, sorting of information, etc.
· The data structure of the product (BOM) can be exported into other systems or into a spreadsheet. Automatic BOM and title block creation is another one of VariCAD’s useful tools. A mask is used for customization; if you create masks for BOM and title blocks, you can use them until a change is necessary. The CAD system provides default masks which can be adjusted to suit your needs.

Compatibility:
· VariCAD can interchange files with other CAD systems. You can import STEP (3D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D) and IGES (2D) files, and export STEP (3D), STL (3D), IGES (3D and 2D), DWG (2D), DXF (2D). The files can be converted individually or in batch routines, thereby converting multiple files in one step.

Printing and Plotting:
· Printing within VariCAD is highly customizable. You can use Windows or KDE Linux printer drivers, or VariCAD built-in drivers. Postscript printing is also available.

Summary:
· VariCAD is a total CAD solution for mechanical engineering. It is compact, fast, easy to use, and contains everything you need for mechanical engineering design. The high performance and powerful tools of our fully loaded package make VariCAD a superb investment. And at our price, no other product is a better value.