With its first commercial product, a young New Mexico company is looking to build a better bridge between computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE).
CoMeT Solutions Inc. has introduced CoMeT/StructuralDynamics, which allows designers and engineers to work in the CoMeT environment to produce simulations that honor the underlying geometry of a CAD design. Without such a product, companies must recreate the geometry of CAD data when porting those files to CAE programs for simulation and analysis.
CoMeT/StructuralDynamics can read codes such as ADAMS for rigid and flexible multi-body dynamic simulations and ABAQUS, ANSYS, and MSC.Nastran for finite element analysis.
This article originally appeared in the November 2006 issue of Managing Automation.